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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72

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).

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

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CAN A GAY JUDGE BE FAIR TO STRAIGHT FOLKS?

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.

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.