Hillary Clinton warns that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn marriage equality, urging LGBTQ+ couples to get married while possible. She predicts a reversal of Obergefell v. Hodges, similar to the precedent set by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Although same-sex marriages will still be federally recognized under the Respect for Marriage Act, states could potentially enact bans on these unions again. Nine states have introduced nonbinding resolutions calling for the Supreme Court to reconsider marriage equality, but the court has made no official move to do so.
American voters, and to some extent the American media, don't understand how many years the Republicans have been working in order to get us to this point. It took 50 years to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court will hear a case about gay marriage. My prediction is they will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion. They will send it back to the states.
If the Supreme Court reverses Obergefell, marriages between same-sex couples will still be recognized federally under the Respect for Marriage Act. Signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022, the act mandates that the federal government recognizes same-sex and interracial marriages, and that all states recognize those performed in other states.
The act does not require states to allow marriages between same-sex couples. As state bans on these unions were struck down in Obergefell, such bans could be enacted again if Obergefell is overturned. If that were to happen, the fallout would likely be similar to that after Roe v. Wade's reversal, in which red states immediately enacted bans.
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