After losing the Senate last week because they are wholly out of touch with the American people, 37 Republican Senators just voted to criminalize interracial marriage.

It's 2022 and interracial marriage is a bridge too far for MAGA GOP.πŸ€¦πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ

Keep voting them all out.

@QasimRashid We are in the 2020’s, right? I thought that was settled in the 1960’s. Whoa, just whoa.
@QasimRashid I know I shouldn't be surprised, but wow.

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the Republicans are nightmarrish bigots, but to clarify 37 Republicans voted against the Respect for Marriage Act. The act adds federal protection for equal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages between states.

Voting against this suuuuuucks but it's not the same thing as voting to criminalize interracial marriage.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-poised-pass-historic-sex-interracial-marriage-bill/story?id=93293889

Historic same-sex marriage bill advances in Senate

Twelve Republicans joined Democrats to start formal debate on the bill.

ABC News
@ellesaurus @QasimRashid So technically they voted to allow states to criminalize interracial marriage, with such laws going into effect as soon as SCOTUS overturns Loving v. Virginia 5-4 (with Clarence Thomas writing a dissent along the lines of "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face").

@magney @QasimRashid That's still not accurate.

The bill doesn't address criminalization; without it, it would allow states in the absence of Loving to not recognize those marriages, not arrest people for being married.

Also, the bill includes same-sex marriage, so we don't know what the numbers are without it.

For example, if there were a bill to feed the homeless and eliminate public schools, saying that voting against it is "voting against feeding the homeless" would be dishonest.

@QasimRashid wait. Wut?!

@wonky Slightly misleading to say that it's just about interracial marriage: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/senate-vote-same-sex-marriage/index.html

Still, Republicans gonna Republican

@QasimRashid Please tell me you’re just joking