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Contents:

• SUPREME COURT DELIVERS TAC W TO GAY MARRIAGE
• US SUPREME URT CISN PAV WAY FOR SWEEPG EXPANSN OF GAY RIGHTS
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• IMPORTANT SUPREME COURT DECISNS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HISTORY
• GAY MARRIAGE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

SUPREME COURT DELIVERS TAC W TO GAY MARRIAGE

Gay and lbian upl started gettg married those stat wh cisn to let the appeals urt lgs stand, which me whout explanatn a seri of brief orrs, will have an enormo practil effect and may dite a pot of no return for the Supreme immediately, the Supreme Court’s move creased the number of stat allowg same-sex marriage to 24, along wh the District of Columbia, up om 19. VioTwo of the platiffs a se challengg Utah’s ban on gay marriage, Moudi Sbey and Derek Kchen, discsed why they were pursug the McAuley for The New York TimIf the urt took pas to avoid a rolutn of whether there was a nstutnal right to same-sex marriage the California se, Hollgsworth v.

US SUPREME URT CISN PAV WAY FOR SWEEPG EXPANSN OF GAY RIGHTS

The US supreme urt signalled a sweepg expansn of gay rights across Ameri on Monday, clg to hear appeals om five stat seekg to uphold bans on same-sex marriage and settg a urse for legalisatn a majory of stat the urt’s unexpected cisn to slam the door on pendg appeals meant there will be no imment lg on the nstutnaly of gay marriage natnwi. Same-sex marriage beme legal Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virgia and Wisns, where the thori had been appealg feats agast lol bans on same-sex marriage the lower experts said gay marriage was also now “prumptively legal” six further stat that shared jurisdictns wh the appeal urt circus that heard the feated appeals: Colorado, Kansas, North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia and four out of the five stat volved the appeals, the top law officers were Republin.

Sce then, the hight feral urt the untry has weighed on about a dozen other LGBTQ rights-related s, which have had powerful impacts on the gay rights movement and the liv of LGBTQ Supreme Court's First Gay Rights CaseSCOTUS's first gay rights se foced on the First Amendment—specifilly, how the rights of ee speech and prs apply to homosexual ntent.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

Sundowner Offshore Servic, Inc., SCOTUS led that same-sex harassment is vered unr Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex, race, lor, natnal orig and Boy Suts Can Exclu Gay IndividualsIn Boy Suts of Ameri v. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn (2018), SCOTUS sid wh the Masterpiece Cakhop—which refed to make a weddg ke for a gay weddg—on the grounds that the missn didn't employ relig ntraly when evaluated the discrimatn se agast the bakery. Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn—on whether gay and transgenr workers are protected om workplace a surprisg 6-3 cisn that me June 2020, the urt led that LGBTQ workers are protected unr Tle VII (which prevents discrimatn on the basis of sex), and nnot be fired for their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

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

“The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

IMPORTANT SUPREME COURT DECISNS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HISTORY

The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods.

GAY MARRIAGE

Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L.

McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

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

”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms. ” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah.

McCoy for The New York TimGay and transgenr rights anizatns on Friday nmned the Supreme Court lg backg a Colorado webse signer’s bid to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, llg the cisn a dangero backslidg on L.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory.

The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers.