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Topic: Respect For Marriage Act

Brazilian former President (2003-2010) and candidate for the leftist Workers Party (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag while leaving a polling station during the presidential run-off election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 30, 2022. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

10 surprisingly good things from 2022

Medea Benjamin
Cyndi Lauper performs before President Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Dec. 13, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Did Biden take a bad deal on marriage?

Brian Karem
President Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act on the South Law of the White House in Washington, DC on December 13, 2022. ((BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images))

Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
US Women National Basketball Association's (WNBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, is escorted to the courtroom to hear the court's final decision in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Griner's release exposes GOP homophobia

Amanda Marcotte
A same-sex marriage supporter waves a rainbow flag in front of the US Supreme Court (Getty Images)

Anti-LGBTQ rep called out by gay nephew

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Gavel On Rainbow Flag (Getty Images)

Republican cries over same-sex marriage

Kelly McClure
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting on November 19, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

No real GOP evolution on LGBTQ rights

Amanda Marcotte
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) talks with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) outside the U.S. Capitol August 4, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Democrats' same-sex marriage tradeoff

Jonathan Larsen - The Young Turks
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on February 09, 2022 in Washington, DC, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) in the back (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

After Roe, GOP runs to same-sex marriage

Amanda Marcotte
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The press grades Republicans on a curve

Amanda Marcotte