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Biden To Sign Bill Granting Protections To Same-Sex Marriage
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The legislation's final adoption by Congress last week marked a rare show of bipartisanship in deeply divided Washington.
President Joe Biden will on Tuesday sign into law a bill granting federal protections to same-sex marriage -- gathering thousands of guests at the White House to celebrate the legislative milestone.It comes 12 years after Biden -- then Barack Obama's vice president -- took a public stand in favor of same-sex unions, well before they became legal in the entire United States through a 2015 US Supreme Court decision.
After the Supreme Court -- now significantly more conservative -- overturned longstanding abortion rights last June, lawmakers from the left and right came together to prevent any subsequent move to curb same-sex marriage rights, feared by some.
The legislation's final adoption by Congress last week marked a rare show of bipartisanship in deeply divided Washington.
In celebration, Biden will be gathering a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers on the White House grounds, along with advocates and plaintiffs in marriage equality cases across the country, his spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday.