Contraceptn, gay marriage: Clarence Thomas signals new targets for supreme urt | Abortn | The Guardian

Contents:

• CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT ‘SHOULD RENSIR’ GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH NTROL
• CLARENCE THOMAS LLS FOR SUPREME COURT TO 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE, NTRACEPTN AFTER ROE V. WA FALLS
• CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT SHOULD RENSIR GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH CONTROL DECISNS NEXT AFTER OVERTURNG ROE
• CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RENSIR NTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE LGS
• SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED

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

Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas lled for his lleagu to re-exame and potentially overturn lgs that protect gay marriage and accs to birth ntrol an opn ncurrg wh Friday’s landmark cisn endg feral abortn rights.

Texas, that forbids stat om outlawg nsensual gay sex, and Obergefell v.

Hodg cisn legalized gay marriage Photo/Cliff Owen).

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

Wa, cludg on that protect gay sex, same-sex marriage and married people’s e of ntraceptn, Jtice Clarence Thomas wrote a ncurrg opn released Friday.

Wa, cludg accs to ntraceptn and gay marriage,  an opn that sparked an outcry on the ' ncurrg opn – which no other member of the urt joed – tracks wh an argument abortn rights groups had ma for months leadg up to the urt's blockbter abortn cisn: a lg that the Constutn don't protect a right to an abortn would jeopardize other rights the urt tablished unr the 14th Amendment. "In future s, we should rensir all of this urt’s substantive due procs precents, cludg Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell, " Thomas wrote, referrg to landmark opns that blocked stat om banng ntraceptn, sex by same-sex upl and gay marriage. ”The 2015 Obergefell cisn guaranteed same-sex upl the right to marriage; the 2003 Lawrence cisn overturned a Texas law which ma gay sex crimal.

Across the untry, stat have been phg laws that rtrict the health-re rights of the dividuals, particularly transgenr unterg such rollbacks was the strong foundatn of urt s that protected both same-sex marriage and Hill, the Human Rights Campaign’s Mississippi executive director, said Roe fallg and bills like Florida’s measure to lim discsns schools about sexual orientatn and genr inty — labeled by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — may emboln Republin lawmakers to ramp up their efforts. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.

CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT SHOULD RENSIR GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH CONTROL DECISNS NEXT AFTER OVERTURNG ROE

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.

California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Jtic Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alo on Monday ed the se of a Kentucky clerk who refed to give gay upl marriage licens to clare that relig liberty has been unr siege sce the Supreme Court 2015 found a nstutnal right to same-sex marriage. Gay rights advot and Democratic lears immediately attacked the jtic for abandong judicial rtrat and threateng the future of same-sex marriage.

Roberts has a mixed rerd on gay rights.

CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT

In June, however, Roberts signed onto the majory’s cisn expandg civil rights protectn for gay and transgenr workers unr Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Texas that stat uld not outlaw nsensual gay sex. Texas 2003 alt wh homosexual sex between nsentg parti, and Obergefell v.

Hodg tread the same terrory 2015 to le gay marriage as a nstutnally protected right to speculated that the overturng of Roe would provi a blueprt for revisg years' worth of cisns that he says are "monstrably erroneo. Blow claimed the right was forcg LGBTQ folks to "cultural gay ghettos.

"Both lumns exprsed alarm at the nservative movement’s recent efforts to challenge aspects of the LGBTQ agenda, mentng the backlash agast a new Disney/Pixar movie, Florida's "Don’t’ Say Gay" Bill and nservative opposn to drag queen story hour events for children. “Obergefell enabl urts and ernments to brand relig adherents who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman as bigots, makg their relig liberty ncerns that much easier to dismiss, ” Jtice Thomas wrote, addg, “In other words, Obergefell was read to suggt that beg a public official wh tradnal Christian valu was legally tantamount to vid discrimatn toward homosexuals.

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

They would allow discrimatn agast gays and lbians by those who have a relig objectn to same-sex jtic’ posn is extremely worrisome, and uld be an ditn that the Supreme Court will soon create a broad exceptn to anti-discrimatn and Thomas ma their views known on Monday when the urt nied review what should have been an easy se volvg Kim Davis, a urt clerk Kentucky who refed to issue weddg licens to same-sex upl.

If Davis had prevailed, then clerks wh a relig objectn to terracial or terfah marriag uld likewise refe to issue marriage right of upl to marry, which the Supreme Court has emed a fundamental liberty, nnot be ma to pend on the relig beliefs of those who issue marriage, while agreeg that the urt should not hear the Davis se, Jtice Thomas, joed by Jtice Alo, took the opportuny to lambaste the Supreme Court’s 2015 lg that tablish a nstutnal right of marriage equaly for gays and lbians. ”Until readg Thomas on Monday, I had naively assumed that the issue of marriage equaly between gays and lbians had been firmly settled by the urt. Print Tmp’s nomee for the urt, Judge Amy Coney Barrett has said that Jtice Anton Slia’s “judicial philosophy is me too, ” and he wrote a very angry, sarstic dissent to the urt’s fdg a right of gay and lbian upl to if the urt do not overle Obergefell, the nservative jtic are likely to fd a right of people based on their relig beliefs to refe to serve same-sex upl.

Although the urt did not ci the relig eedom claim the se, there are siar s around the untry volvg florists and photographers and statnery stor that claim a right to discrimate agast gay and lbian June, the urt held that feral law prohibs employment discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty. The urt left open whether an employer wh a relig objectn n refe to employ gay, lbian and transgenr current nstutnal law, the answer is clear that relig beliefs are not an exce for discrimatg.

CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RENSIR NTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE LGS

Catholic Social Servic ref to place foster children wh gay and lbian upl, and the group has challenged s excln om the program.

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

There should be no right, based on relign or anythg else, to discrimate agast gays and Chemersky is an of the UC Berkeley School of Law and thor (wh Howard Gillman) of “The Relign Cls: The Case for Separatg Church and State. 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. “Dpe the majory’s sistence that abortn is different, the legal argument that they make wh rpect to why Roe is wrong would apply equally to many other s volvg unenumerated rights such as gay marriage, ” Berman said.

“There’s fe e for ncern that this ia will be extend to apply to other areas and I thk gay marriage and ntraceptn are the two most likely victims bee those are the on that don’t have a long history of havg been acknowledged as a fundamental right, ” she add.