Clarence Thomas: Gay marriage should be revised as Roe v. Wa falls

Contents:

• SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED
• JTICE THOMAS HTS GAY RIGHTS AND NTRACEPTN AT RISK AFTER NSERVATIVE MAJORY OVERTURNS ROE V. WA
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THOMAS: NO LK BETWEEN CIVIL RIGHTS AND GAY RIGHTS
• THOMAS ANNOUNC TARGETG OF GAY RIGHTS; TAC NEW DIRECTN TO ANTI-ABORTN MOVEMENT
• JTICE SLAMS SCOTUS FOR "SIGNAL" ON GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA SE
• IN ABORTN OPN, THOMAS URG SUPREME COURT TO ‘RENSIR’ GAY RIGHTS LGS DPE ASSURANC OM THE URT, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS LLED TO QUTN PREV CISNS ON LGBT RIGHTS AND NTRACEPTN. IN A NCURRG OPN WRTEN THE ABORTN SE OVERTURNG ROE V. WA, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SHOULD "RENSIR" IMPORTANT LGBT RIGHTS CISNS NEXT, CLUDG LGS STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX AND LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.BY LREN MCGGHY3:19 PM ON JUN 24, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S HISTORIC CISN OVERTURNG ROE VS. WA MA ASSURANC THAT GAY RIGHTS ARE NOT ON THE CHOPPG BLOCK RIGHT NOW. BUT ONE JTICE WARNED LGBT AMERINS THAT THEY SHOULDN’T UNT ON THAT PROMISE FOR LONG.IN THE URT’S MAJORY OPN, JTICE SAMUEL ALO WROTE THAT FRIDAY’S CISN SOLELY ALT WH THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND SHOULD NOT BE READ AS A THREAT TO PREV LGS ON ISSU LIKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ADVERTISEMENTBUT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, A NCURRG OPN, WARNED THAT OLD CISNS ON SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY, GAY MARRIAGE AND EVEN NTRACEPTN ULD — AND SHOULD — BE REVERSED IF THE URT IS ASKED FUTURE BEE THEY ARE BASED ON THE SAME NSTUTNAL PRCIPL AS ROE.ADVERTISEMENT“IN FUTURE S, WE SHOULD RENSIR ALL OF THIS URT’S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCS PRECENTS,” THOMAS WROTE. HE THEN REFERRED SPECIFILLY TO LAWRENCE VS. TEXAS, THE 2003 LG STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX TEXAS AND 12 OTHER STAT, AND OBERGEFELL VS. HODG, THE 2015 LG LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHE MSAGE TO LGBT AMERINS IS THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW, NSTUTNAL LAW EXPERT DALE CARPENTER SAID. IF THE URT, WHICH IS MORE NSERVATIVE THAN EVER, IS ASKED TO RENSIR THE LGS THE FUTURE, NOW HAS THE PLAYBOOK TO KNOCK THEM DOWN.“MY BOTTOM LE IS I’M NOT FEARFUL FOR MY OWN MARRIAGE OR MARRIAG OF SAME-SEX UPL THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. BUT ASK ME AGA 50 YEARS,” SAID CARPENTER, THE CHAIR OF NSTUTNAL LAW AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? ON THE LAST WEEKEND OF PRI MONTH, LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAID THOMAS SHOWED THEM THEY ARE THE “SUPREME COURT’S NEXT TARGET.”“THOMAS’S NCURRENCE IS A BLARG RED ALERT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY AND FOR ALL AMERINS,” SAID SARAH KATE ELLIS, PRINT AND CEO OF GLAAD, A PRO-LGBT MEDIA ADVOCY GROUP. “BETWEEN THIS THREAT AND TODAY’S REVERSAL OF ABORTN RIGHTS, WE N NO LONGER TST THAT THE SUPREME COURT IS OPERATG THE TERTS OF THE MAJORY OF AMERINS.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DID THE OPNS SAY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?ALO’S OPN, WHICH FOUR OF THE URT’S NSERVATIVE JTIC SIGNED ONTO, CLUDG THOMAS, SAID THERE IS NO NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN BEE THE CONSTUTN DO NOT EXPLICLY GIVE AMERINS THE RIGHT TO TERMATE A PREGNANCY, AND THE RIGHT TO ACCS ABORTN IS NOT EPLY ROOTED THE NATN’S HISTORY OR TRADN.ADVERTISEMENTBUT THE OPN GO OUT OF S WAY TO MAKE ASSURANC THAT OTHER RIGHTS PREVLY LED ON BY THE URT, SUCH AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY PARTNER TIMACY, WERE NOT AT ISSUE HERE. LGBT RIGHTS ARE MENTNED AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN TIM. ON FOUR SEPARATE OCSNS, ALO REPEATED THAT THIS LG WAS LIMED TO THE QUTN OF ABORTN.“WE HAVE STATED UNEQUIVOLLY THAT ‘[N]OTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,’ ” ALO WROTE. “IT IS HARD TO SEE HOW WE ULD BE CLEARER.”JTICE BRETT KAVANGH REERATED THE POT HIS OWN NCURRG OPN STRONGER TERMS: “OVERLG ROE DO NOT MEAN THE OVERLG OF THOSE PRECENTS [ON NTRACEPTN, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND DO NOT THREATEN OR ST DOUBT ON THOSE PRECENTS.”ADVERTISEMENTTHE MAJORY, SEEKG AGA TO UNRSRE THE POT, ACCED THE THREE LIBERAL JTIC’ DISSENT OF STOKG AN “UNFOUND FEAR THAT OUR CISN WILL IMPERIL THOSE OTHER RIGHTS.”BUT THOMAS HIS NCURRG OPN OPENLY URGED THE URT TO TAKE UP S THAT LOOKED ANEW AT THE MARRIAGE AND SODOMY LGS, AS WELL AS NTRACEPTN, AND TO KNOCK THEM DOWN IF ASKED.ONLY “AFTER OVERLG THE MONSTRABLY ERRONEO CISNS,” HE SAID, ULD THE URT CI WHETHER THE RIGHTS N BE PROTECTED BASED ON SOME OTHER PROVISN THE CONSTUTN.RELATED:'HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT' WAS ILLEGAL 15 YEARS AGO. HOW FAR HAVE LGBTQ RIGHTS TEXAS E SCE?ADVERTISEMENTTHE URT’S THREE LIBERAL JTIC SEIZED ON THOMAS’ OPN. IN A DISSENT THAT PULLED NO PUNCH, JTICE STEPHEN BREYER ACCED THE MAJORY OF BEG SHORTSIGHTED AT BT AND CEFUL AT WORST. THEY KNOW THE OTHER RIGHTS ARE AT RISK BEE THEY ALSO AREN’T EXPLICLY MENTNED THE CONSTUTN OR ROOTED HISTORY, HE SAID.“NOT UNTIL ROE, THE MAJORY ARGU, DID PEOPLE THK ABORTN FELL WH THE CONSTUTN’S GUARANTEE OF LIBERTY. THE SAME ULD BE SAID, THOUGH, OF MOST OF THE RIGHTS THE MAJORY CLAIMS IS NOT TAMPERG WH,” BREYER WROTE. “EHER THE MASS OF THE MAJORY’S OPN IS HYPOCRISY, OR ADDNAL NSTUTNAL RIGHTS ARE UNR THREAT. IT IS ONE OR THE OTHER.”HE POTED TO THOMAS AS THE PROOF.“AT LEAST ONE JTICE IS PLANNG TO E THE TICKET OF TODAY’S CISN AGA AND AGA AND AGA,” BREYER WARNED.ADVERTISEMENT“WHATEVER TODAY’S MAJORY MIGHT SAY, ONE THG REALLY DO LEAD TO ANOTHER. WE FERVENTLY HOPE THAT DO NOT HAPPEN BEE OF TODAY’S CISN,” THE DISSENT NCLUD. “WE NNOT UNRSTAND HOW ANYONE N BE NFINT THAT TODAY’S OPN WILL BE THE LAST OF S KD.”CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS AGREED WH THE URT’S JUDGMENT BUT DID NOT JO THE MAJORY OPN. IN A NCURRG OPN OF HIS OWN, HE SAID THE URT SHOULD HAVE CID THE NARROW QUTN OF WHETHER MISSISSIPPI’S 15-WEEK ABORTN BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL AND LEAVE AT THAT.HE DID NOT ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS AS THE OTHER JTIC DID.WHAT ULD HAPPEN WH GAY RIGHTS?
• CLARENCE THOMAS LLS FOR SUPREME COURT TO 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE, NTRACEPTN AFTER ROE V. WA FALLS

SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED

Associate Jtice Clarence Thomas pos durg a group photo of the Jtic at the Supreme Court Washgton, April 23, Schaff | Pool | RtersSupreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas on Friday said landmark high urt lgs that tablished gay rights and ntraceptn rights should be rensired now that the feral right to abortn has been wrote that those lgs "were monstrably erroneo cisns. Texas that stat uld not outlaw nsensual gay sex.

In 1779, Thomas Jefferson proposed a law that would mandate stratn for gay men and mutilatn of nose rtilage for gay women. Lawmakers at both the state and feral level ntue to target lbians and gay men wh dranian legislatn and hateful rhetoric. The gay rights movement is still workg to change this.

1951: First Natnal Gay Rights Organizatn is Found. Durg the 1950s, would have been dangero and illegal to register any kd of pro-gay anizatn.

JTICE THOMAS HTS GAY RIGHTS AND NTRACEPTN AT RISK AFTER NSERVATIVE MAJORY OVERTURNS ROE V. WA

The founrs of the first major gay rights groups had to protect themselv by g .

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The small group of gay men who created the Mattache Society 1951 drew on the Italian tradn of street edy which the jter-tthteller characters, the mattaci, revealed the flaws of pompo characters reprentg societal norms. But most stat ignored the remendatn, and ntued to classify nsensual gay sex as a felony on par wh sexual asslt--sometim wh prison sentenc of up to 20 years.

1969 is often regard as the year that the gay rights movement took off, and for good reason.

Before 1969, there was a real disnnect between polil progrs, which was most often ma by straight alli, and lbian and gay anizg, which was most often swept unr the g. When the NYPD raid a gay bar Greenwich Village and started arrtg employe and drag performers, they got more than they bargaed for--a crowd of some 2, 000 lbian, gay, and transgenr supporters of the bar took on the police, forcg them to the club. 1973: Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Defends Homosexualy.

THOMAS: NO LK BETWEEN CIVIL RIGHTS AND GAY RIGHTS

But 1973, members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn began to realize that homophobia was the real social problem.

THOMAS ANNOUNC TARGETG OF GAY RIGHTS; TAC NEW DIRECTN TO ANTI-ABORTN MOVEMENT

They announced that they would be removg homosexualy om the next prtg of the DSM-II, and spoke out favor of anti-discrimatn laws that would protect lbian and gay Amerins. 1980: Democratic Natnal Conventn Supports Gay Rights.

JTICE SLAMS SCOTUS FOR "SIGNAL" ON GAY MARRIAGE ALABAMA SE

Durg the 1970s, four issu galvanized the Relig Right: Abortn, birth ntrol, homosexualy, and pornography.

IN ABORTN OPN, THOMAS URG SUPREME COURT TO ‘RENSIR’ GAY RIGHTS LGS DPE ASSURANC OM THE URT, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS LLED TO QUTN PREV CISNS ON LGBT RIGHTS AND NTRACEPTN. IN A NCURRG OPN WRTEN THE ABORTN SE OVERTURNG ROE V. WA, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SHOULD "RENSIR" IMPORTANT LGBT RIGHTS CISNS NEXT, CLUDG LGS STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX AND LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.BY LREN MCGGHY3:19 PM ON JUN 24, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S HISTORIC CISN OVERTURNG ROE VS. WA MA ASSURANC THAT GAY RIGHTS ARE NOT ON THE CHOPPG BLOCK RIGHT NOW. BUT ONE JTICE WARNED LGBT AMERINS THAT THEY SHOULDN’T UNT ON THAT PROMISE FOR LONG.IN THE URT’S MAJORY OPN, JTICE SAMUEL ALO WROTE THAT FRIDAY’S CISN SOLELY ALT WH THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND SHOULD NOT BE READ AS A THREAT TO PREV LGS ON ISSU LIKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ADVERTISEMENTBUT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, A NCURRG OPN, WARNED THAT OLD CISNS ON SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY, GAY MARRIAGE AND EVEN NTRACEPTN ULD — AND SHOULD — BE REVERSED IF THE URT IS ASKED FUTURE BEE THEY ARE BASED ON THE SAME NSTUTNAL PRCIPL AS ROE.ADVERTISEMENT“IN FUTURE S, WE SHOULD RENSIR ALL OF THIS URT’S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCS PRECENTS,” THOMAS WROTE. HE THEN REFERRED SPECIFILLY TO LAWRENCE VS. TEXAS, THE 2003 LG STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX TEXAS AND 12 OTHER STAT, AND OBERGEFELL VS. HODG, THE 2015 LG LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHE MSAGE TO LGBT AMERINS IS THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW, NSTUTNAL LAW EXPERT DALE CARPENTER SAID. IF THE URT, WHICH IS MORE NSERVATIVE THAN EVER, IS ASKED TO RENSIR THE LGS THE FUTURE, NOW HAS THE PLAYBOOK TO KNOCK THEM DOWN.“MY BOTTOM LE IS I’M NOT FEARFUL FOR MY OWN MARRIAGE OR MARRIAG OF SAME-SEX UPL THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. BUT ASK ME AGA 50 YEARS,” SAID CARPENTER, THE CHAIR OF NSTUTNAL LAW AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? ON THE LAST WEEKEND OF PRI MONTH, LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAID THOMAS SHOWED THEM THEY ARE THE “SUPREME COURT’S NEXT TARGET.”“THOMAS’S NCURRENCE IS A BLARG RED ALERT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY AND FOR ALL AMERINS,” SAID SARAH KATE ELLIS, PRINT AND CEO OF GLAAD, A PRO-LGBT MEDIA ADVOCY GROUP. “BETWEEN THIS THREAT AND TODAY’S REVERSAL OF ABORTN RIGHTS, WE N NO LONGER TST THAT THE SUPREME COURT IS OPERATG THE TERTS OF THE MAJORY OF AMERINS.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DID THE OPNS SAY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?ALO’S OPN, WHICH FOUR OF THE URT’S NSERVATIVE JTIC SIGNED ONTO, CLUDG THOMAS, SAID THERE IS NO NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN BEE THE CONSTUTN DO NOT EXPLICLY GIVE AMERINS THE RIGHT TO TERMATE A PREGNANCY, AND THE RIGHT TO ACCS ABORTN IS NOT EPLY ROOTED THE NATN’S HISTORY OR TRADN.ADVERTISEMENTBUT THE OPN GO OUT OF S WAY TO MAKE ASSURANC THAT OTHER RIGHTS PREVLY LED ON BY THE URT, SUCH AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY PARTNER TIMACY, WERE NOT AT ISSUE HERE. LGBT RIGHTS ARE MENTNED AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN TIM. ON FOUR SEPARATE OCSNS, ALO REPEATED THAT THIS LG WAS LIMED TO THE QUTN OF ABORTN.“WE HAVE STATED UNEQUIVOLLY THAT ‘[N]OTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,’ ” ALO WROTE. “IT IS HARD TO SEE HOW WE ULD BE CLEARER.”JTICE BRETT KAVANGH REERATED THE POT HIS OWN NCURRG OPN STRONGER TERMS: “OVERLG ROE DO NOT MEAN THE OVERLG OF THOSE PRECENTS [ON NTRACEPTN, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND DO NOT THREATEN OR ST DOUBT ON THOSE PRECENTS.”ADVERTISEMENTTHE MAJORY, SEEKG AGA TO UNRSRE THE POT, ACCED THE THREE LIBERAL JTIC’ DISSENT OF STOKG AN “UNFOUND FEAR THAT OUR CISN WILL IMPERIL THOSE OTHER RIGHTS.”BUT THOMAS HIS NCURRG OPN OPENLY URGED THE URT TO TAKE UP S THAT LOOKED ANEW AT THE MARRIAGE AND SODOMY LGS, AS WELL AS NTRACEPTN, AND TO KNOCK THEM DOWN IF ASKED.ONLY “AFTER OVERLG THE MONSTRABLY ERRONEO CISNS,” HE SAID, ULD THE URT CI WHETHER THE RIGHTS N BE PROTECTED BASED ON SOME OTHER PROVISN THE CONSTUTN.RELATED:'HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT' WAS ILLEGAL 15 YEARS AGO. HOW FAR HAVE LGBTQ RIGHTS TEXAS E SCE?ADVERTISEMENTTHE URT’S THREE LIBERAL JTIC SEIZED ON THOMAS’ OPN. IN A DISSENT THAT PULLED NO PUNCH, JTICE STEPHEN BREYER ACCED THE MAJORY OF BEG SHORTSIGHTED AT BT AND CEFUL AT WORST. THEY KNOW THE OTHER RIGHTS ARE AT RISK BEE THEY ALSO AREN’T EXPLICLY MENTNED THE CONSTUTN OR ROOTED HISTORY, HE SAID.“NOT UNTIL ROE, THE MAJORY ARGU, DID PEOPLE THK ABORTN FELL WH THE CONSTUTN’S GUARANTEE OF LIBERTY. THE SAME ULD BE SAID, THOUGH, OF MOST OF THE RIGHTS THE MAJORY CLAIMS IS NOT TAMPERG WH,” BREYER WROTE. “EHER THE MASS OF THE MAJORY’S OPN IS HYPOCRISY, OR ADDNAL NSTUTNAL RIGHTS ARE UNR THREAT. IT IS ONE OR THE OTHER.”HE POTED TO THOMAS AS THE PROOF.“AT LEAST ONE JTICE IS PLANNG TO E THE TICKET OF TODAY’S CISN AGA AND AGA AND AGA,” BREYER WARNED.ADVERTISEMENT“WHATEVER TODAY’S MAJORY MIGHT SAY, ONE THG REALLY DO LEAD TO ANOTHER. WE FERVENTLY HOPE THAT DO NOT HAPPEN BEE OF TODAY’S CISN,” THE DISSENT NCLUD. “WE NNOT UNRSTAND HOW ANYONE N BE NFINT THAT TODAY’S OPN WILL BE THE LAST OF S KD.”CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS AGREED WH THE URT’S JUDGMENT BUT DID NOT JO THE MAJORY OPN. IN A NCURRG OPN OF HIS OWN, HE SAID THE URT SHOULD HAVE CID THE NARROW QUTN OF WHETHER MISSISSIPPI’S 15-WEEK ABORTN BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL AND LEAVE AT THAT.HE DID NOT ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS AS THE OTHER JTIC DID.WHAT ULD HAPPEN WH GAY RIGHTS?

Democratic lears had everythg to ga and ltle to lose by supportg gay rights, so they serted a new plank the party platform: "All groups mt be protected om discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, natnal orig, language, age, sex or sexual orientatn.

Ernment body to do so--offerg lbian and gay cy and school district employe the same partnership benefs that heterosexual upl take for granted. Even Print Clton got on the act, signg the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act 1996 to prevent any future hypothetil same-sex married upl om receivg feral benefs. Although Print Clton is often bt remembered the LGBT activism muny for his support of a ban on lbians and gay men the ary and his cisn to sign the Defense of Marriage Act, he also had a posive ntributn to offer.

Dpe the nsirable progrs that had been ma on gay rights issu by 2003, gay sex was still illegal 14 stat. History, celibacy was no longer the implic legal standard for lbians and gay men--and homosexualy self ceased to be an dictable offense.

CLARENCE THOMAS LLS FOR SUPREME COURT TO 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE, NTRACEPTN AFTER ROE V. WA FALLS

Charl Dharapak/APIn his 2013 gural addrs, Print Barack Obama clared gays and Ain-Amerins ras arms, their parallel fight for equaly "the star that guis still; jt as guid our forebears through Sene Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.

" Yterday, jt after the Supreme Court issued a landmark lg grantg gays and lbians the legal right to marry all 50 stat, Obama echoed that belief a Rose Garn statement. Hodg same-sex marriage se, rejectg the notn that gays, like Ain-Amerins, had suffered om send-class cizenship.