Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced that he won’t support legislation to repeal a Clinton-era law outlawing federal recognition of same-sex marriage that was declared unconstitutional in 2015.
In July, the House of Representatives — including 47 Republicans — voted to advance the Respect for Marriage Act, a bipartisan bill that would remove the 1996 Defence of Marriage Act from US law books. That decades-old legislation prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allowed states to refuse recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states.
