The ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Deserves No Respect
Andrew Walker and Carl Trueman National Review
This week, House Democrats led the way in helping pass the Orwellian titled “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA). It passed with a clear majority of 267 votes for it and 157 against it. What should not escape notice (and what we’ll return to down below) is that 47 Republican members of the House of Representatives voted for it as well.
The bill aims to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which both the Windsor and Obergefell rulings had already severely gutted. The Respect for Marriage Act comes in response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in the Dobbs decision that criticized the validity of “substantive due process,” the legal mechanism that progressives have used to discover new rights within the Constitution, of which “same-sex marriage” was one.
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On July 20, 2022, EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell discussed the dangers which addictive social media platforms pose to the healthy development of children and the actions families can keep to ensure their safety on the Wilkow! Show.
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Bernard Lane, an Australian reporter covering the medical-gender debate, quoted extensively from EPPC Fellows Rachel N. Morrison and Mary Rice Hasson in his write-up on the American Academy of Pediatrics' move to silence a mounting body of evidence contradicting the preferred consensus of gender affirmation procedures for minors. He particularly emphasized when Morrison and Hasson said,
“Scientific inquiry is stunted when activists, clinicians, or medical associations attempt to silence or punish those who question medicalised transition, produce research that does not align with favoured conclusions, or caution against rushing children into transitioning treatments without adequate psychological assessments."
Read the EPPC brief here, and Lane's article here.
