U.S. House on bipartisan vote passes bill protecting right to same-sex marriage

Salemites celebrate Pride downtown in 2022. (LAURA TESLER/Special to Salem Reporter)

WASHINGTON — Both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House voted Tuesday to enshrine the right to same-sex and interracial marriages in federal law, though the bill’s path forward in the Senate is unclear. 

The 267-157 bipartisan vote stemmed from concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturnthe constitutional right to an abortion may not be the only fundamental right…