🚨 The Pennsylvania House passed a bill to remove the state’s same-sex marriage ban from the books and 26 Republicans crossed party lines to vote for it. The final vote was 127 to 72. The state still has a same-sex marriage ban on the books from 1996. It is unenforceable because of the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell ruling, but it is still written into state law. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, would finally remove that language. It now heads to the Republican-controlled state Senate, where similar bills have stalled in past sessions. 26 House Republicans voted yes. One Democrat; Rep. Frank Burns of Cambria County, voted no. 35 states still have dormant same-sex marriage bans on the books. If Obergefell is ever overturned, those bans become enforceable again. Pennsylvania is one of them.