Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., is an original co-sponsor of the bipartisan legislation and has helped shore up GOP support.
It took less than a week in the Senate’s return to Washington to move forward a historic piece of legislation that would enshrine same-sex marriage into federal law, fulfilling a pre-midterm election promise to protect LGBTQ+ rights while Democrats, for just six more weeks, control the House of Representatives.
While same-sex marriage has been legal in Arizona since 2014 when U.S. District Judge John W. Sedwick ordered the state to “” its ban on gay marriage, it didn’t become legal across all 50 states until 2015 when the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage constitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges. Despite efforts by Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh to rebuke Thomas’ assertion, Democratic lawmakers were motivated to enshrine same-sex marriage as a backstop for the conservative-leaning court.
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