Photo: Marti G. Cummings on Instagram
Yesterday, Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, which provides legal protections for same-sex and interracial marriage. To celebrate the signing of what leftist pundits are calling “landmark legislation,” the President invited drag queens Marti G. Cummings and Brita Filter to the White House to participate in the festivities.
Marti G. Cummings, a New York-based male drag performer identifies as “non-binary” and uses they/them pronouns, also serves on the board of numerous LGBTQ activist organizations, and claims on his website that “Drag and Politics goes [sic] hand in hand.”
Cummings celebrates “LGBTQ youth” and is an advocate for medical gender transitions for minors, involving sterilizing drugs like Lupron, a “puberty blocking” drug that prevents a child from ever fully developing, both physically and mentally. He also sits on the board for The Ali Forney Center for Homeless LGBTQ Youth, which will provide “hormone replacement therapy” (providing females with synthetic testosterone, and males with synthetic estrogen) to minors.
The drag “artist” was also filmed performing in a revealing one-piece costume in front of a child at a restaurant. There is, of course, no rational reason that an adult man would need to cross-dress and dance provocatively in front of children. This urge is purely predatorial.
Drag queen “Brita Filter” whose real name is Jesse Havea, gained a lot of attention after performing in an Episcopalian church for high school students in New York City.
Havea was invited to Grace Church School’s “Pride Chapel” to “teach the children” about the LGBTQ community. “Visibility matters and I’m so honored to have had the chance to talk to you about my work as a LGBTQ+ Drag Queen Activist,” Havea wrote in a TikTok post.
The so-called Respect for Marriage Act codifies same-sex marriage into law, though it was already nationally protected by the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision. The law redefines the federal and legal interpretation of marriage to mean any union between two individuals.
“Specifically, the bill replaces provisions that define, for purposes of federal law, marriage as between a man and a woman and spouse as a person of the opposite sex with provisions that recognize any marriage between two individuals that is valid under state law.”
Congress — Respect for Marriage Act
Conservatives at large criticized the way the law was drafted, given that the ambiguous language does not provide total legal protection for religious liberty. This will likely result in numerous legal battles in court on behalf privately owned businesses that wish to respect the traditional version of marriage based on their religious beliefs.
“The bill also replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
Congress — Respect for Marriage Act
Not only is the bill slightly repetitive, given that same-sex and interracial marriage rights were not under attack to begin with, but it insists that marriage and a legal union are the same when they have fundamental differences. Marriage is a term coined and defined long before the United States federal government became involved, and has been an institution since the beginning of time.
