Sen. Marco Rubio called a marriage equality bill in the Senate a “stupid waste of time” in front of Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is not only the lead sponsor of the Respect for Marriage Act, but also the first open LGBTQ individual to be elected to the Senate.
“You probably would have loved to be on the elevator to see the exchange after,”Baldwin also tried to explain to her Republican colleague why the bill wasn’t a “waste of time.”
“I said that, ‘The recent Supreme Court decision eroded a constitutional right to privacy. There’s a whole bunch of cases that have been decided based on a constitutional right to privacy that are in jeopardy,’ which he disagrees with,” Baldwin said, adding that she told him “we’ll be talking some more.”Like Johnson, Rubio is also up for reelection in this year’s midterm elections.
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