GOP Congresswoman Tears Up While Urging Vote Against Marriage Equality

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "Protect religious liberty.
49% : It will assure that the federal government recognizes these marriages and that states recognize those performed in other states, although it doesn't require any state to allow same-sex couples to marry within its borders, as now required under the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
48% : The House nonetheless passed the act, which will protect same-sex and interracial married couples even if the Supreme Court overturns its 2015 marriage equality ruling.
46% : After the House passed an earlier version of the act this summer, the Senate added an amendment to allay concerns that the legislation would interfere with religious liberty.
43% : Back in 2011, in her first term in the U.S. House, she told a gay student who questioned her at a town meeting in Missouri that he shouldn't worry about bans on same-sex marriage.
41% : It denied federal recognition to same-sex marriages and allowed states to deny recognition to such marriages from other states.
34% : The student also asked Hartzler about a comment she had made warning that letting same-sex couples marry would be like letting 3-year-olds drive cars.
31% : Earlier, she had proposed another amendment, this one to reverse the Obama administration's lifting of the ban on trans troops, but withdrew it while making a plea to Defense Secretary James Mattis "to take the steps to restore readiness and make sure we don't waste precious tax dollars" -- in other words, reinstate the ban.
26% : Anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri started crying on the House floor Thursday as she begged her fellow representatives to vote against the Reflect for Marriage Act, which will write marriage equality into federal law.

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