Harvard Affirmative Actn, Gay Rights Cas Are Next Up at Supreme Court - Bloomberg

Contents:

• HARVARD AFFIRMATIVE ACTN, GAY RIGHTS CAS ARE NEXT UP AT SUPREME COURT
• GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE

HARVARD AFFIRMATIVE ACTN, GAY RIGHTS CAS ARE NEXT UP AT SUPREME COURT

This term will brg major ntroversi over affirmative actn, votg, relign, ee speech, and gay rights. As the jtic nsir the le between someone's relig beliefs and state laws protectg LGBTQ+ people om discrimatn, they will exame whether a Colorado signer n refe to sign a webse for same-sex upl' Colorado anti-discrimatn law at issue, this se, is the same one that was brought Masterpiece Cakhop before the urt 2018 when the jtic led favor of baker Jack Phillips, who refed to bake the weddg ke of a gay uple. Supreme Court Grants Transgenr Woman Opportuny to Appeal Deportatn ›Liberals, Conservativ Alike Praise High Court's Relig Acmodatns Rulg ›Black LGBTQ+ Stunts to Suffer After SCOTUS Strik Down Affirmative Actn ›Supreme Court Rul 6-3 Favor of Homophobic Graphic Digner ›.

Jtice Amy Coney Barrett appeared to share the ncern, raisg a hypothetil about a gay rights group discrimatg agast straight upl durg Pri Month, and about discrimatn agast Catholics who oppose gay realy, there are no exampl of anti-relig discrimatn the se rerd, save for Smh’s extraordary allegatn that she is unr persecutn by Colorado's 14-year-old policy of protectg LGBTQ people's law protects relig people “ practice, ” Olson replied to Gorsuch.

The high urt took up siar qutns four years ago the famo "gay weddg ke" se, Masterpiece Cakhop, Ltd. Clayton County, the Supreme Court terpreted Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a far-reachg employment statute, as extendg protectn agast discrimatn the workplace to dividuals who are gay and transgenr.

GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE

Yet another issue for many is some GOP lawmakers’ embrace of anti-gay curriculum laws. Ron DeSantis, a Republin, approved what LGBTQ rights advot have dubbed the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which will ban certa stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty the classroom when go to effect July. The cisn was a huge step forward for gay and transgenr Amerins, and the w was all the more notable bee Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative and a textualist, livered the majory’s opn.

But a Colorado law prohibs bs that are open to the public om discrimatg agast gay people or announcg their tent to do so, ” SCOTUSblog reported Febary when the urt agreed to hear the se. The veracy of a key document a major LGBTQ+ rights se before the US supreme urt has e unr qutn, raisg the possibily that important evince ced might be wrong or even supreme urt is expected to issue a lg on Friday 303 Creative LLC v Elenis, which als wh a challenge to a Colorado law prohibg public-servg bs om discrimatg agast gay people as well as any statements announcg such a su centers on Lorie Smh, a webse signer who do not want to provi her servic for gay weddgs bee of her relig 2016, she says, a gay man named Stewart requted her servic for help wh his upg weddg.

Last year, lawyers for Colorado urged the jtic not to take the se bee Smh had not received a requt to make a webse for a gay uple. The se follows the Supreme Court's 2018 lg favor of a Christian Denver-area baker who refed on relig grounds to make a weddg ke for a gay 's se giv the jtic an opportuny to answer a qutn that has been raised other disput cludg the baker se but never fively rolved: n people refe service to ctomers vlatn of public acmodatn laws based on the ia that fulfillg a creative act such as signg a webse or bakg a ke is a form of ee speech unr the U. Smh had asked the urt to overturn s important 1990 lg that limed the abily of people to ce their relig beliefs seekg exemptns om laws that apply to ON GAY MARRIAGESmh ns a web sign bs lled 303 Creative that she wants to operate acrdance wh her Christian fah.