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WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a measure connected Tuesday that would support national designation of same-sex marriage, a measurement taken up successful effect to worries the Supreme Court could overturn a 2015 determination that legalized it nationwide.
The narrowly tailored bill, which would necessitate the national authorities to admit a matrimony if it was ineligible successful the authorities successful which it was performed, is meant to beryllium a backstop if the Supreme Court acted against same-sex marriage.
It would not barroom states from blocking same-sex oregon interracial marriages if the Supreme Court allowed them to bash so.
"Today the agelong but inexorable march towards greater equality advances forward," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said successful a statement.
"By passing this bill, the Senate is sending a connection that each American needs to hear: nary substance who you are oregon who you love, you excessively merit dignity and adjacent attraction nether the law."
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The measure was passed 61 to 36, with 60 votes needed for passage. Twelve Republicans joined 49 Democrats successful supporting the bill. One Democrat, Georgia's Raphael Warnock, was absent, arsenic were 2 Republican senators.
A similar, but not identical, measure passed the House of Representatives earlier this twelvemonth with enactment from 47 Republicans and each Democrats. The House would request to o.k. the Senate mentation earlier it is sent to President Joe Biden to motion into law.
No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer told reporters connected Tuesday the House would apt instrumentality up the Senate's mentation of the measure adjacent week.
In June, the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide close to an abortion, undoing 50 years of precedent.
In a concurring opinion, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the tribunal should see reversing different decisions protecting idiosyncratic freedoms, including the 2015 ruling connected cheery marriage.
About 568,000 joined same-sex couples unrecorded successful the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Reporting by Moira Warburton Editing by Chris Reese and Richard Chang
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