Court 'should rensir' gay marriage, birth ntrol: Clarence Thomas

Contents:

• CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RENSIR NTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE LGS
• SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW WORKPLACE DISPUTE OVER EE SPEECH AND GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: WHY SUPREME COURT GOT WRONG
• SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE BATE SHIFTS TO US SUPREME COURT
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT ‘SHOULD RENSIR’ GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH NTROL

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

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.

READ THE SUPREME COURT OPINION - APP USERS, CLICK HERE:Smh has mataed throughout the se that she has no problem workg wh the LGBTQ muny, jt not for gay weddgs. Jtice Sonia Sotomayor dissented om the majory, along wh Jtic Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, and lled the lg "a new license to discrimate" and that the "symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat. "SUPREME COURT HEARS FREE SPEECH ARGUMENTS OVER COLORADO COMPANY REFUSING TO CREATE WEBSITES FOR GAY WEDDINGSDpe this, Smh said she did not regret gog to urt.

SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW WORKPLACE DISPUTE OVER EE SPEECH AND GAY MARRIAGE

In 2018, bakery Masterpiece Cakhop won a se where owner Jack Phillips refed to sign and create k specifilly for gay weddgs.

"The Obergefell opn thored by Kennedy aimed to balance the rights of relig people wh those of gay upl, sayg that "[m]any who em same-sex marriage to be wrong reach that ncln based on cent and honorable relig or philosophil premis. "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.

GAY MARRIAGE: WHY SUPREME COURT GOT WRONG

"Thomas add: "This asssment flows directly om Obergefell’s language, which characterized such views as 'disparag[g]' homosexuals and 'dimish[g] their personhood' through '[d]ignary wounds. FILE -- June 25, 2015: John Becker, 30, of Silver Sprg, Md., wav a rabow flag support of gay marriage outsi the Supreme Court Washgton.

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Mart) One do not have to be a homophobe or bigot to believe that the Supreme Court ma a tragic error today creatg out of th air an imagary right for gay marriage. By enshrg gay marriage as a “civil right, ” the Court will be openg a floodgate of ligatn agast dividuals and bs that refe to honor same-sex marriag bee of relig nvictns. After all, if gay marriage is a civil right, then anyone who oppos is guilty of a civil rights vlatn.

SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE

We have already seen bakeri, florists, and weddg chapels sued and, some s, put out of bs bee of their refal to participate gay weddg ceremoni. Addnally, we n expect both civil and ernmental actns agast relig stutns that refe to honor gay marriage as a civil right.

If gay marriage has now been elevated to a civil right on par wh terracial marriage, what ratnale would ernment have for not revokg the tax-exempt stat of any relig anizatn that do not regnize same-sex unns? Anytime you unterfe somethg, you cheapen the value of the real thg, and gay marriage is “unterfe marriage” (In fairns, heterosexuals have also been cheapeng the value of marriage for years through adultery and divorce. Any variatn om that—premaral sex, adultery, polygamy, unbiblil divorce, or homosexualy—is a viatn om God’s origal plan for sex.

The nng fight over gay marriage the U. Is shiftg om the ballot box to the Supreme weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage three stat and feated a ban a fourth, the jtic for the untry's top urt are meetg Friday to ci whether they should al sooner rather than later wh the claim that the Constutn giv people the right to marry regardls of sexual urt also uld duck the ultimate qutn and stead foc on a narrower but still important issue: whether Congrs n prevent legally married gay Amerins om receivg feral benefs otherwise available to married urt uld announce s plans as soon as Friday afternoon.

GAY MARRIAGE BATE SHIFTS TO US SUPREME COURT

Feral urts California have stck down the state's nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage, but that lg has not taken effect while the issue is beg Mae, Maryland and Washgton approved gay marriage earlier this 31 stat have amend their nstutns to prohib same-sex marriage. In Mnota earlier this month, voters feated a proposal to enshre a ban on gay marriage that state's biggt issue the urt uld ci to nont the dispute over California's Proposn 8, the nstutnal ban on gay marriage that voters adopted 2008 after the state Supreme Court led that gay Californians uld se uld allow the jtic to ci whether the U.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

A cisn favor of gay marriage uld set a natnal le and overturn every state nstutnal provisn and law banng same-sex marriag. A lg that upholds California's ban would be a setback for gay marriage proponents the natn's largt state, although would leave open the state-by-state effort to allow gays and lbians to strikg down Proposn 8, the 9th U. Circu Court of Appeals crafted a narrow lg that said bee gay Californians already had been given the right to marry, the state uld not later take away.

Koppelman signed onto a legal brief urgg the jtic not to hear the California some opponents of gay marriage say the issue is too important, and California is too large a state, for the urt to take a pass. It f marriage for all purpos unr feral law as between a man and a woman and has been ed to jtify excludg gay upl om a wi range of benefs that are available to heterosexual feral district urts and two urts of appeal have overturned the provisn var s on grounds that unfairly priv same-sex upl of feral benefs.

Print Obama went further when he endorsed gay marriage May.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

In two other s, same-sex upl and survivg spo of gay marriag Connecticut, Massachetts, New Hampshire and Vermont are seekg a range of feral benefs, cludg Social Secury and private pensn survivor payments, accs to feral employee health surance and the right to file a jot feral e tax the only stance which a gay uple already is receivg feral benefs, feral urt employee Karen Golski San Francis has been allowed, unr a urt orr, to add her wife to her health surance verage. That uld be reversed if the Supreme Court upholds the marriage law matter which se the urt choos, the same issue will be ont and center -- whether legally married gay Amerins n be kept om the range of benefs that are otherwise extend to married upl.

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

"Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse. "You don't know somebody's gay unls you ask them, so if the web signer says, 'Um, we're booked up, ' they don't have to al wh that other stuff this woman ma this about.

" Goldberg prsed on, tellg Griff, "This is about beg able to say, 'I don't want to do a gay person's webse, ' that's what this is about. Kennedy, then the center of the High Court, rejected the optns before him, cidg agast sidg wh a same-sex uple who had been nied a ke for their Colorado weddg receptn and agast sidg wh the baker who said his oven was off-lims to gay upl. Jt a few weeks ago, when Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the natn’s hight-rankg Senate-nfirmed gay member of the Bin Admistratn, joed TIME’s Washgton Bure for a wi-rangg nversatn, he was blunt: “I mean, Roe fell and that was the law of the land for longer than I’ve been alive.

We saw stat before Obergefell, some stat were movg to allow gay marriage, other stat were movg to allow civil partnerships.

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

:Clarence Thomas lls for Supreme Court to 'rensir' gay marriage, ntraceptn'New era' or 'dark day'? "In Obergefell, the urt said, 'No, we know better than you guys do, and now every state mt, mt sanctn and perm gay marriage.

Unsurprisgly, Mchell oppos gay rights and said a Supreme Court brief that Obergefell v. When Print Barack Obama threw his admistratn’s support behd a challenge to Proposn 8, the gay-marriage ban enacted by California voters 2008, his Jtice Department troduced what amounted to a bizarre promise.

Proposed that the Supreme Court le that stat like California, which had extend gay men’s and lbians’ “marriage le” alternativ like domtic partnership or civil unn, were vlatn of the nstutnal prohibn agast “separate but equal”—but was fe to offer no regnn at all. The proposal was signed to ensure that no state would have to beg validatg gay or lbian fai unr the force of a urt orr. But a simultaneo lg by the urt that the Defense of Marriage Act was unnstutnal dramatilly changed gay-rights ligators’ view of what was possible.

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

Acrdg to the urt’s applitn of the equal-protectn clse, such a termatn would subject not only the marriage bans but a whole range of feral, state and lol laws that disadvantaged gay men and lbians (and possibly transgenred people, as well) to a higher level of judicial scty. Yet Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who had prevly wrten three watershed opns that had helped to tablish the full cizenship of gay men and lbians, had nsistently cled to see the s on those terms.

He knew he was wrg for history, and that passage immediately adorned merchandise—to this day Etsy remas filled wh posters and noterds featurg Kennedy’s words—and is now often read at weddg ceremoni for both straight and gay upl.

To some extent, this was a reflectn of the broar succs that gay-marriage mpaigners had had the polil sphere. While a feral urt ced Obergefell 2016 as a basis to strike down Mississippi’s ban on adoptn by gay upl, s impact has been barely felt areas beyond fay law.