By Edie Heipel, Political Correspondent, CNA, Nov. 30, 2022
Edie Heipel is the Political Correspondent for CNA’s Washington, D.C. bureau. …
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 30, 2022 – With Congress now poised to enshrine same-sex marriage into federal law — largely thanks to Senate Republicans — opponents of the measure warn that Catholics and other people of faith should brace for incoming attacks on their faith.
The Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA) repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which federally defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and did not force states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
The Democrat-led RFMA goes further than the 2015 Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage — Obergefell v. Hodges — by mandating that all states must recognize same-sex marriages performed out of state. …