Legal experts say the impact of Fulton v. Cy of Philalphia uld go beyond gay rights and impact nondiscrimatn protectns more broadly.
Contents:
- SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC AGENCY CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE
- ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
- OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
- SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE
SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC AGENCY CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE
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""We do not doubt that this tert is a weighty one, for '[o]ur society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, '" Roberts wrote, quotg the 2018 se Masterpiece Cakhop v. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe unanimo lg was further evince that claims of relig liberty almost always prevail the current Cortez/Associated PrsWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court led unanimoly on Thursday that a Catholic social servic agency Philalphia uld fy cy l and refe to work wh same-sex upl who apply to take foster cisn, the latt clash between antidiscrimatn prcipl and claims of nscience, was a setback for gay rights and further evince that relig groups almost always prevail the current urt’s surprisg nsens on a se that pted gay rights agast relig rights masked ep divisns, wh the three most nservative jtic issug tic ncurrg opns cricizg the cisn as excsively timid and so narrow as to be Jtice John G. Lawyers for the agency rpond that merely wanted to ntue work that had been dog for centuri, addg that no gay uple had ever applied to .
“Bee the agency unrstands the certifitn of prospective foster fai to be an endorsement of their relatnships, will not certify unmarried upl — regardls of their sexual orientatn — or same-sex married upl, ” he wrote, addg that the agency “do not object to certifyg gay or lbian dividuals as sgle foster parents or to placg gay and lbian children. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Court Supports Catholic Agency In Dispute on Gay Foster Parents.
ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
A lawsu that ps relig eedom agast gay rights — and has been perlatg through the urt system and natnal news for two years — is officially on the Supreme Court’s month, the high urt agreed to hear Fulton v. The anizatn argued that to provi the servic to gay upl vlated s nstutnal rights to ee relig exercise and ee speech.
Philalphia was workg s way through the lower urts, the Supreme Court livered a victory to Christian baker Jack Phillips, owner of Colorado’s Masterpiece Cakhop, another se alg wh gay rights and relig lg for Phillips was narrow and did not dite how the high urt unrstands the nstutnal qutn of whether relig dividuals actg good fah are entled to exemptns om nondiscrimatn laws, acrdg to Ball. Over 21 percent of gay upl are raisg adopted children, pared wh 3 percent of straight upl, and nearly 3 percent of gay upl have foster children, pared wh 0. Y., an openly gay father of three, is a sponsor of the Every Child Derv a Fay Act.
He uned the three liberals together wh Jtice Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavangh support of a taxpayer-fund agency’s abily to discrimate agast gay people. At the same time, Roberts affirmed that preventg anti-gay discrimatn is a pellg state tert. And what about Philalphia’s Fair Practic Ordance, which bars anti-gay discrimatn public acmodatns?
OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
) Roberts nfirmed that endg anti-gay discrimatn is a “weighty” state tert, quotg Masterpiece Cakhop for the proposn that “our society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth.
”The latter argument c a recent Supreme Court se which the ernment tervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple due to his relig beliefs.
We are among the first generatn of children raised by two gay dads or two lbian moms. But the gay slurs, hostile glar, and bullyg paled parison wh the realizatn that our ernment did not stand behd and our fai—forbiddg marriage and curbg parental rights, passg state nstutnal amendments exprsly nyg our parents equal protectn, and even crimalizg their sexual relatnships.
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe jtic will nsir whether a cy may exclu a Catholic adoptn agency om s foster re system bee ref to work wh gay Silbiger/RtersWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to ci whether Philalphia may exclu a Catholic agency that do not work wh same-sex upl om the cy’s foster-re cy stopped placements wh the agency, Catholic Social Servic, after a 2018 article The Philalphia Inquirer scribed s policy agast placg children wh same-sex upl. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 15 of the New York edn wh the headle: Jtic to Hear Case of Agency Wh Foster Care Policy That Exclus Gay Coupl. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court led unanimoly Thursday for Catholic Social Servic s fight over foster re Philalphia, holdg cy officials discrimated agast the church group bee of s relig se posed a clash between relig liberty and gay rights, but the jtic — as they have prevly when grapplg wh the same qutn — found a narrow way to rolve the dispute.