Center for Renewing America's Russ Vought decries the Respect for Marriage Act
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From the July 21, 2022, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic
RUSS VOUGHT (GUEST): Earlier in this week we found out the Democrats were going to do a flash vote, they didn't put this on the schedule. They didn't tell anyone this was coming. You and I were texting to figure out how to respond most effectively. And so what they did was they put a bill on the floor and it would attempt to try to move away from where they believe they were vulnerable on the groomer issues, and ties back to, you know, the definition of marriage and an affirmation of Obergefell, but they were further and they also included essentially an ability for any state's definition of marriage will be recognized federally, which has grave implications because you could have a polygamy decision at the state court that now has to be recognized federally across the country -- very, very problematic. This is something that the members voted on as well. They tried to tie in things like interracial marriage which literally no one is talking about, messing with that at all. It's an equal protection violation in of itself.
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We knew that you cannot allow the bait to be set as Republicans overwhelmingly go back on the definition of traditional marriage. You have to stand for truth and culture may be against us but culture was against us in the early 1970's and people got out of the wreckage of Roe v. Wade and started a movement and changed hearts and minds over a period of time and that's what we need to do on this as well.
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This bill is dangerous, it's now going to the Senate. The Senate, it could pass it and we've got a lot of work to do and people might be thinking why are we talking about this right now and it's because we are in a culture war and when you are in a culture war, you've got to be able to articulate truth in the midst of that and do your best even when the culture and the society is against you.
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TERRY SCHILLING (GUEST HOST): From my perspective here, on this vote, I think, one, it upsets me because it was a missed opportunity. What's happened since Obergefell, right? What has happened? We are going after bakers, we are going after florists, we are shutting people's businesses down because they don't want to participate in gay weddings, right? So, that's huge. But, I think the even bigger thing is we now have transgender children who are getting sex changes, hormone treatments, they're putting boys in our girls' sports, they are making billions of dollars a year off of all of this stuff, by the way, and they're using the LGBT movement to literally eliminate Christianity from this country.