The US Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to "protect same-sex marriage" across the United States, which could preclude the possibility of the Supreme Court ruling restricting the practice as it did with abortion.
Immediately after the adoption of this text, US President Joe Biden said in a statement that, “With the approval of the Senate today, with votes from both parties (Democratic and Republican), the Respect for Marriage Act, the United States is about to reaffirm a basic truth: love is love, and Americans should have The right to marry the person they love.
The bill was approved in the Senate by 61 votes against 36, and it will be referred again to the House of Representatives for a vote, which is nothing more than a formality, according to Agence France-Presse, because the deputies had previously approved the text last July before the Senate modified it slightly. .
Upon approval by the House of Representatives, the draft law will be referred to the President for signature and issuance of an effective law.
In practice, this law annuls all previous legislation that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Same-sex marriage is enshrined at the federal level in the United States, according to a 2015 Supreme Court ruling, and therefore no state can pass legislation to ban this practice.
The same was the case with abortion, which was allowed for women in the United States half a century ago, before the Supreme Court issued a ruling last June that overturned its ruling issued in 1973, and thus restored the freedom for each state to allow or prohibit abortion.