On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: The Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act last week thanks to 12 Republicans who supported the measure. 39 House Republicans voted for it today. It is now on the way to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. And Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond canceled the Family Foundation of Virginia's 20 person reservation, just an hour before the group's holiday party. President of the Family Foundation of Virginia, Victoria Cobb, joins to tell us a little about the Family Foundation and why she thinks the owners of Metzger perceived the group as a threat. Meanwhile, President Biden went before the cameras to report that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from prison in Russia following her drug conviction. A dramatic high-level prisoner exchange got her out. The US Naval Academy admitted it has denied all vaccine-related religious exemption requests from midshipmen. Director of Military Affairs for First Liberty Institute, Mike Berry, shares his reaction to this report and to a separate claim that some unvaccinated midshipmen are being denied diplomas. Finally this evening, the Holy See opened an exhibition of several dozen nativity scenes. EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser joined Monsignor Rino Fisichella, the man responsible for the exhibition, to discuss why it is important to display the nativity scenes and what people's reactions have been.

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