John F. Kennedy had a three-s-long iendship wh his former schoolmate Lem Billgs. Print John F. Kennedy may have had an timate relatnship wh a gay iend om his prep school days, claims btsellg thor Jerry Oppenheimer, who has wrten two books about the Kennedys.
Contents:
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?
- MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND
- GAY KENNEDY
- JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * gay kennedy *
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. 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.
IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?
Print John F. Kennedy was killed Dallas 50 years ago, leavg behd a mourng natn and his gay bt iend, Lem Billgs. * gay kennedy *
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. Kennedy had been the voice of the urt’s progrsive gay rights lgs datg to 1996.
Colorado Civil Rights Commissn was brought by a baker, Jack Phillips, who had been sanctned unr Colorado law for refg to create a ke for two gay men celebratg their marriage. Phillips argued that beg forced to provi a weddg ke to a gay uple vlated his nstutnal rights to the ee exercise of relign and ee speech. He’d prevly told lleagu that he was skeptil of relig exemptns for retailers who would ny servic to gay people.
MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND
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“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy wrote, reflectg his ntued tentativens. Gsburg and Sotomayor were the only dissenters, homg on the bias the gay men faced: “What matters, ” Gsburg wrote, “is that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual uple. While he was on the urt, Kennedy was the cisive vote for the urt’s 5-4 pro-gay rights lgs.
He wrote each of the urt’s landmark gay rights cisns, outlawg bans on same-sex sexual nduct, LGBTQ polil advocy and same-sex marriage at the state and feral level. Kennedy is the voice of the urt’s gay rights doctre. Havg tracked judicial progrs on gay rights over the last , I’d argue that Kennedy’s retirement puts this doctre, and the movement, jeopardy.
GAY KENNEDY
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Although his lgs on same-sex relatnships have hered new eedoms for lbian and gay upl, they rt on agile nstutnal arguments.
Wh Kennedy’s retirement, there is greater opportuny for anti-gay activists to dismantle the urt’s tenuo legal amework supportg gay rights. Kennedy joed the urt 1988 as a Reagan appotee whose only cisn on gay rights, wrten durg his tenure on the 9th Circu Court of Appeals, narrowly upheld ary regulatns prohibg “homosexual nduct. In 1996, ls than a after his appotment to the urt, Kennedy would thor his first of multiple Supreme Court cisns protectg the rights of lbians and gay men.
JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
If upheld, the amendment would have renred any discrimatn agast gays or lbians hog, employment and public acmodatns both legal and untouchable.
The state argued that they were protectg the “liberti of landlords or employers who have personal or relig objectns to homosexualy” and were dog “no more than ny[g] homosexuals special rights. The policy, Kennedy stated, was “born of animosy toward the class of persons affected” and renred members of the gay muny “unequal to everyone else. For the gay muny, Romer marked what New York Tim reporter Lda Greenhoe scribed as a “historic shift the Court’s rponse to anti-gay discrimatn, ” stoppg other stat om followg su.