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Contents:
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED
- THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL
- GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
Ten years ago, illtrator Mirko Ilic bed three visual clich to create a h, endurg emblem for gay marriage. * lady justice gay rights *
Ten years ago, illtrator Mirko Ilic bed three visual clich to create a h, endurg emblem for gay IlicAt the end of Febary 2004, New York illtrator and graphic signer Mirko Ilic had an assignment: e up wh a meangful image about gay marriage and the legal battl that were begng to foment.
SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED
Five years after the US Supreme Court clared a fundamental right for same-sex upl to marry, the jtic produced another landmark for the gay rights movement by lg that feral anti-bias law vers lns of gay, lbian and transgenr workers. * lady justice gay rights *
He requted that Ilic, who is well known for his symbolic acuy, create somethg wh Jtice as the fol tle of the article was "I'd Leave the Country, but My Wife Won't Let Me, ” and was about a lbian uple and their lengthy travails prr to the time when legalizg gay marriage was gag momentum.
But that didn’t stop om gog viral among gay stutns and pro-marriage-equaly groups. ”Mirko Ilic/Massachetts Lbian and Gay Bar AssociatnFor Ilic was satisfyg to take three inographic clichés—the Statue of Liberty, Statue of Jtice and Eisenstaedt photo—and make a brand-new, posive symbol. “And ’s a nice feelg, ” he add, “watchg on TV, a gay pri para and seeg the image appearg among the crowd.
Five years after the US Supreme Court clared a fundamental right for same-sex upl to marry, the jtic produced another landmark for the gay rights movement by lg that feral anti-bias law vers lns of gay, lbian and transgenr workers.
THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL
The Supreme Court says the feral ban on discrimatn "based on sex" appli to gay, lbian and transgenr employe. * lady justice gay rights *
The lg jos the annals of high urt cisns over the last quarter century that have helped drive gay progrs on myriad onts, cludg the 2003 cisn strikg down statut that crimalized sodomy and a 2013 actn that validated a feral law that nied married same-sex upl the Social Secury and other benefs given oppose-sex married upl. Equally signifint, the cisn was joed by Chief Jtice John Roberts, who had never signed an opn endorsg gay rights. Gorsuch said the “msage” of the law is “simple and momento: An dividual’s homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns.
That’s bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. More than 7 ln people the US intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to the Williams Instute at UCLA. In his 15 years as chief jtice, Roberts’ dissent the 2015 gay marriage se marked his first and only oral dissent om the bench.
Jtice Brett Kavangh, dissentg, tried to emphasize that he was not agast gay rights and noted the historic nature of the cisn.
GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
Abortn no longer is a feral right wh Roe v. Wa overturned. Supreme Court Jtice Thomas now is eyeg s related to gay rights and birth ntrol. * lady justice gay rights *
“This Court has prevly stated, and I fully agree, that gay and lbian Amerins ‘nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth. The Tmp admistratn had argued agast Monday’s oute, and the lg may have seemed improbable after the 2018 retirement of Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who had been the thor of all gay rights opns datg to 1996 and was often the cidg vote on a bench riven on the cultural dilemma.
They were brought on behalf of two gay men fired om their jobs, as a skydivg stctor and a child welfare servic ordator, and on behalf of a transgenr woman who lost her posn as a funeral home director. The employers argued that firg gay or transgenr dividuals did not vlate Tle VII. He acknowledged that Congrs likely would not have anticipated Monday’s rult when passed the law 1964, but he said the prohibn on discrimatn “bee of sex” necsarily vers people who face bias bee of they are gay, lbian or transgenr.
We do not hate to regnize today a necsary nsequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law. Hodg landmark lg, to steer the urt’s oute a pair of key gay rights disput. The negotiatns those s, not prevly reported, offer a glimpse to tra-offs among jtic, monstrate the chief’s soft power of persuasn and show that the urt’s sentiment on gay rights issu n be both ght and evolvg.
The Supreme Court’s nservative majory led a Christian graphic artist who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh gay upl, a setback for LGBTQ+ people and another w for relig platiffs. * lady justice gay rights *
Meanwhile, Kennedy would vote for the urt to hear the appeal of the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Colorado, who’d been sanctned for refg to bake a weddg ke for two gay men. The acceptance of an appeal om a baker who had refed to create a ke for a gay uple based on relig objectns uld easily have led to a public perceptn of new Supreme Court hostily toward gay rights.
The backstory of two gay rights s handled tanm 2017 has new salience today.