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This is good info. It's pretty sad how recent a lot of those changes are. Thank you for this.
Me neither, but it's concerning when it's a politician who held backwards views while he/she was in power and able to enact laws and policies based on their beliefs. If Biden is all about gay marriage now, he should go back and have any policy against gay marriage he supported back then rolled back.
That would certainly be a nice gesture. But a Senator can not just single handedly roll back existing legislation. You would need new legislation, which he could whole heartedly endorse, to override it.
But- drilling down further, you will notice that it is often not legislation that is the issue. A lot of times legislation is kept sufficiently vague to infer maximum freedom and rights. As you can see from the case law you posted, more often than not, it is the narrow views of every day citizens, not the legislation itself, that are at odds with minorities and different sexual orientations. Which is why so often these matters are resolved in SCOTUS as opposed to Congress.