Nice Time! House Passes Marriage Equality Protection, Happy Gay Christmas!

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The bill had already passed the House last summer, but the second vote today was necessary because the Senate had added some redundant but reassuring language about protecting "religious liberty" in order to make some Republicans feel better.
49% : Once the law is on the books, states and the federal government will have to honor all legal marriages from any state, even if the Supreme Court at some point reverses its 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
46% : If that happens, states would be able to ban issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but they would still have to fully recognize all marriages from other states -- the only real effect it would have on same-sex couples in such states is that they'd need to go to another state to get married.
45% : As we've noted previously, the biggest achievement in the bill is its repeal of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

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