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Contents:

• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

The negotiatns those s, not prevly reported, offer a glimpse to tra-offs among jtic, monstrate the chief’s soft power of persuasn and show that the urt’s sentiment on gay rights issu n be both ght and evolvg. Meanwhile, Kennedy would vote for the urt to hear the appeal of the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Colorado, who’d been sanctned for refg to bake a weddg ke for two gay men. The acceptance of an appeal om a baker who had refed to create a ke for a gay uple based on relig objectns uld easily have led to a public perceptn of new Supreme Court hostily toward gay rights.

Colorado Civil Rights Commissn was brought by a baker, Jack Phillips, who had been sanctned unr Colorado law for refg to create a ke for two gay men celebratg their marriage. Phillips argued that beg forced to provi a weddg ke to a gay uple vlated his nstutnal rights to the ee exercise of relign and ee speech. He’d prevly told lleagu that he was skeptil of relig exemptns for retailers who would ny servic to gay people.

WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy wrote, reflectg his ntued tentativens. Gsburg and Sotomayor were the only dissenters, homg on the bias the gay men faced: “What matters, ” Gsburg wrote, “is that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual uple. If thgs go a certa way at the Supreme Court this sprg, gay marriage will be legal every state by the time the June pri paras roll Pulls a CharlottvilleHow will the Jtic vote?

But based on their past lgs, some of them are totally gayer than we ranked them—roughly—by the gay-iendls of their past cisns or public statements pl their Mart Qun sre, a project by two profsors that tracks judg’ ORDER OF TOTALLY GAY TO NOT SO GAY1. Jtice Sonia SotomayorWhen asked about gay marriage durg her nfirmatn hearg, Jtice Sotomayor said she unrstands “the serns of same-sex marriage” and she would keep a "pletely open md. Jtice Anthony KennedyJtice Kennedy thored the opn the se that stck down Texas’s ban on sodomy, but nobody knows how he’ll vote when to gay marriage for the entire untry.

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

”Sounds totally gay, but Kennedy should still be nsired qutng—he’s also led favor of allowg stat to terme their own laws, separate om feral fluence. Roberts noted that “whout some more nvcg evince that the Act’s prcipal purpose was to dify malice, and that furthered no legimate ernment terts, ” he would have to vote to uphold the SO GAY: the three arch-nservativ7.

He’s the third most nservative jtice acrdg to the Mart Qun has provid a glimmer of hope support of gay marriage, as has poted out.

Thomas also joed his fellow nservativ lleagu votg that the urt shouldn’t le on gay don’t unt on Thomas to le favor of allowg same-sex upl to get married.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

“The worry is that this provis a green light to any bs owner that they n refe service to any person on the basis of their inty, whether they’re gay or lbian, or Jewish or Black, or anythg, bee they have an objectn to those sorts of people beg their bs, ” said Kathere Franke, a profsor at Columbia Law School. In 2020, Gorsuch livered a massive w to the LGBTQ muny when he livered the majory opn a se that extend feral protectns to gay, lbian and transgenr workers.

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.

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

’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L. 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. ”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn.

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

The dissentg jtic, he wrote, foced on “the stris gay Amerins have ma towards securg equal jtice unr law. 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.

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

A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L.

Dale that the anizatn uld exclu gay sutmasters bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn’s “exprsive msage. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event. Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships.

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.

IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?

”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. Smh and her lawyers have emphasized that her objectn is not to workg wh same-sex upl or gay dividuals, but to signg webs for gay weddgs.

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. “Broad exemptns to allow relig-based discrimatn hurts people of fah, too, ” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for gay Catholics, said a statement.

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.