Listed here are the 37 Republicans who voted no to the same-sex marriage invoice within the Senate

A whole of 37 Republicans voted no to the Respect for Marriage Act on Wednesday, failing to cease the act from passing within the Senate in opposition to the 62 senators who voted in favor of it.

The senators rejecting the proposal included Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Invoice Cassidy (R-LA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Debra Fischer (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Invoice Hagerty (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Rand Paul (R-KY), James Risch (R-ID), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Richard Shelby (R-AL), John Thune (R-SD), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Roger Wicker (R-MS). No Democrat voted in opposition to the invoice.

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"I simply voted in opposition to the 'Respect for Marriage Act' that's supposed to guard homosexual marriage with out creating dangers to spiritual freedom and non secular establishments," Graham wrote on social media. "Nothing within the invoice provides new protections for homosexual marriage, but it surely does, for my part, create nice uncertainty about spiritual liberty and establishments who oppose homosexual marriage."

Having surpassed the 60-vote threshold wanted to defeat a filibuster, the Respect for Marriage Act will endure a ultimate vote on passage within the Senate someday later this week. After that, it'll return to the Home, which should vote to approve the spiritual freedom modification that was not included earlier this summer season, earlier than being handed to President Joe Biden for approval.

A bipartisan group of senators, together with Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Thom Tillis (R-NC), crafted the spiritual freedom modification within the Respect for Marriage Act to handle issues from conservatives. The invoice had been shelved earlier this 12 months till after the midterm elections with a view to garner extra help from Republican senators, because it wanted at the least 10 Republicans to vote in favor of it.

The Republicans who joined all Democrats in voting sure included Sens. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Todd Younger (R-IN).