Can a Gay Judge Be Fair to Straight Folks? | ACLU

Contents:

• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S 1ST GAY JTICE LEFT THE NFL TO PURSUE A LAW REER
• A GAY JUDGE’S CASE
• 1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• CAN A GAY JUDGE BE FAIR TO STRAIGHT FOLKS?

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

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TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL

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.

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

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.

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.

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S 1ST GAY JTICE LEFT THE NFL TO PURSUE A LAW REER

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. 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. 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.

A GAY JUDGE’S CASE

Jenks ma history as the first openly gay jtice and third Black man to serve on the state’s hight an terview wh the LGBTQ magaze Advote, Jenks lled the distctn “an tertg notn. In an terview wh, Jenks, now his late 60s, said that acceptg himself as gay was “bar none” his greatt challenge.

There’s been another ethil twist the gay-marriage legal battle (the first one, which I wrote about earlier, volved a law firm cidg not to help fend the Defense of Marriage Act). Bh, was gay, and the San Francis Chronicle had reported that the mors were te.

There’s a “narrower, ” more “personal” nflict of tert here, he matas, bee Walker has a partner and uld marry him California if he were allowed to, and bee his lg he accepted the arguments that same-sex marriage would benef gay upl fancially, socially, and emotnally. Well, y, though Walker was not among the gay Californians who did marry when was legal the state, and for all we know might have no tert marryg. Bis, if you accept the logic of the anti-gay-marriage si, then straight married people livg California—ed, straight unmarried people who might someday marry—would have jt as much of a personal tert the se.

1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72

8 fenrs sist would suffer, along wh any children they might have, om the unrmg of tradnal marriage they say would e about if gay marriage were legalized. Febary 3, 2020, 4:14 PMThe first openly gay judge appoted to a U. Only 14 out of 870 feral judghips are held by openly gay or lbian judg (cludg Robson), add, and there has never been an openly bisexual or transgenr judicial nomee.

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

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The dissentg jtic, he wrote, foced on “the stris gay Amerins have ma towards securg equal jtice unr law. He was the thor of every major Supreme Court cisn protectg gay rights unr the Constutn. 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.

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CAN A GAY JUDGE BE FAIR TO STRAIGHT FOLKS?

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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.