The Democrats passed a law saying that any marriage in any state must be respected in any other state. Marriage is a state issue, so unless they’re going to put it in the constitution, that’s the best they can do. Same with what you are claiming with the EPA: Nixon certainly did not fucking pass it. He vetoed it, it went back to committee and then came back up and passed the House by a vote of 366 to 11 and the Senate, unanimously, with 74 Senators voting yes and then he vetoed it again and Congress had to override the veto.
If you’re talking about the Respect for Marriage Act, that was passed a decade after the Supreme Court established gay marriage as the law of the land. The overturning of Roe made Democrats decide that they should codify gay marriage, since they saw how badly failing to codify abortion rights turned out. It also reopens the door for Civil Unions and passed with large Republican support, so I wouldn’t exactly call it a huge win for Democrats.
As for the EPA, I’m not sure what you’re talking about, but you are absolutely incorrect. Nixon proposed the EPA and NOAA through executive order, and it was later ratified by Congress. It’s possible you’re referencing some sort of dispute Nixon had with Congress on how they intended to create the EPA, but he absolutely supported it; it was his idea.
The Democrats passed a law saying that any marriage in any state must be respected in any other state. Marriage is a state issue, so unless they’re going to put it in the constitution, that’s the best they can do. Same with what you are claiming with the EPA: Nixon certainly did not fucking pass it. He vetoed it, it went back to committee and then came back up and passed the House by a vote of 366 to 11 and the Senate, unanimously, with 74 Senators voting yes and then he vetoed it again and Congress had to override the veto.
If you’re talking about the Respect for Marriage Act, that was passed a decade after the Supreme Court established gay marriage as the law of the land. The overturning of Roe made Democrats decide that they should codify gay marriage, since they saw how badly failing to codify abortion rights turned out. It also reopens the door for Civil Unions and passed with large Republican support, so I wouldn’t exactly call it a huge win for Democrats.
As for the EPA, I’m not sure what you’re talking about, but you are absolutely incorrect. Nixon proposed the EPA and NOAA through executive order, and it was later ratified by Congress. It’s possible you’re referencing some sort of dispute Nixon had with Congress on how they intended to create the EPA, but he absolutely supported it; it was his idea.