The United States House of Representatives has passed a federal guardianship bill same-sex marriages. This is the last step before sending the text to the US president, Joe Biden, for signature. The law requires all U.S. states to recognize same-sex marriages, and it’s a relief for hundreds of thousands of couples who married after the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing marriage. Bipartisan legislation also protects interracial unions, requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
The law does not force individual states to celebrate same-sex marriages, but makes their recognition mandatory throughout the federal territory. Therefore, even in those States that do not yet contemplate them in their civil code.
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