SCOTUS May “End” Gay Rights, Acrdg To “The View” | Freedom Bean

Contents:

• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• SCOTUS MAY “END” GAY RIGHTS, ACRDG TO “THE VIEW”
• DR. JORDAN PETERSON: WHY DOBBS DON’T SPELL THE END FOR GAY RIGHTS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn. Equalx reports that addn to same-sex marriage beg illegal, homosexualy among men remas outlawed Jamai and n be punished wh up to seven years prison.

Homosexualy among women is not explicly illegal, but sodomy between any two humans is punishable wh up to 10 years prison.

SCOTUS MAY “END” GAY RIGHTS, ACRDG TO “THE VIEW”

After the Supreme Court’s cisn to end the e of affirmative actn admissns to lleg, Joy Behar reportedly rmed her -hosts on ABC’s “The View” that the urt will next try to end homosexual rights. She said was not te and then claimed there would be an end to gay marriage.

Behar nclud that they want to elimate abortn rights, so next, ’ll be gay rights. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griff had to expla to Behar that Congrs already dified gay marriage.

Progrsiv have monstrated particular tert the effect of Dobbs on gay rights, as substantive due procs protects the rights to engage same-sex sexual timacy and marry dividuals of the same sex. Substantive due procs has been key to the expansn of gay rights. Hodg advance the ia that laws crimalizg nsensual homosexual timacy (Lawrence) or prohibg same-sex marriage (Obergefell) impose unacceptable burns on the fundamental nstutnal rights to privacy and liberty.

DR. JORDAN PETERSON: WHY DOBBS DON’T SPELL THE END FOR GAY RIGHTS

The likelihood, however, that Dobbs jeopardiz the seri of advanc ma for gay rights Amerin law over the past two s is low for three reasons. Whatever s pathologi, there do not yet seem to be a siar preoccupatn wh rollg back gay rights the Republin Party of the, while a majory of Amerins intifi as pro-choice, the spl is nsirably narrower than the divi on re gay rights.

Contrarily, rrpondg Gallup polls on gay rights om 2022 suggt that 79 percent of Amerins thk nsensual gay sex should be legal and that 71 percent of Amerins support the regnn of same-sex marriag.

It is impossible to know whether the nservative movement will relibrate s agenda after Dobbs to foc on rtrictg the rights of gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins to marry or have sex wh whom they please. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said. Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law. Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said.

In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims.

Gay workers were also facg job discrimatn a natn already bet by high unemployment.