Court 'should rensir' gay marriage, birth ntrol: Clarence Thomas

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• IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT ‘SHOULD RENSIR’ GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH NTROL
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• HARVARD AFFIRMATIVE ACTN, GAY RIGHTS CAS ARE NEXT UP AT SUPREME COURT
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?

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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

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CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT ‘SHOULD RENSIR’ GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH NTROL

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CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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HARVARD AFFIRMATIVE ACTN, GAY RIGHTS CAS ARE NEXT UP AT SUPREME COURT

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LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

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GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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