A new poll commissioned by the Heritage Foundation found most voters in five surveyed states oppose a bill critics contend threatens religious liberty, the Respect for Marriage Act, which the Senate will consider for final passage the week after Thanksgiving.
Most of the voters in the five states—Indiana, West Virginia, Utah, Wyoming, and Iowa—are Republican and/or conservative. Five Republican senators from those states were among a dozen GOP upper chamber lawmakers who voted on Nov. 16 with all 50 Democratic senators to move the proposal forward.
The five were Sen. Todd Young, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Sen. Mitt Romney, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, and Sen. Joni Ernst, respectively. Thirty seven other Republican senators voted against moving the bill forward in the legislative process….