Is Anthony Kennedy 'the first gay jtice'? | CNN Polics

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?
• IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?
• SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED
• 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

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

Hodg landmark lg, to steer the urt’s oute a pair of key gay rights disput. 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. The backstory of two gay rights s handled tanm 2017 has new salience today. Kennedy had been the voice of the urt’s progrsive gay rights lgs datg to 1996.

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.

WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?

He’d prevly told lleagu that he was skeptil of relig exemptns for retailers who would ny servic to gay people.

“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. “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. 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?

IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?

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. Then a week later she married a send gay uple.

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.

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

8” se dited that she is cril of barrg gay and lbian upl om marryg. 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.

Evans that stck down Colorado’s nstutnal amendment forbiddg lol gay rights legislatn. ”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.

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

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. Jtice Anton SliaJtice Slia has argued elected officials should ci on gay marriage, not the urts. 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.

Jtice Clarence ThomasJtice Clarence Thomas has fely not officiated any gay weddgs. 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.

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

There was ltle doubt that later that morng, this quietly powerful jtice would be havg a major say the legal, polil, and social path of gay rights movg forward.