I Was Part of 303 Creative's Case. I Back Gay Marriage—but SCOTUS Is Right

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS AT THE SUPREME COURT
• THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE
• GAY UPLE CED BY CHRISTIAN WEB SIGNER WHO WON SUPREME COURT SE MAY NOT EXIST
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• JUDGE DISMISS CASE AGAST 47 MEN CHARGED UNR NIGERIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS AT THE SUPREME COURT

Supreme Court livered a monumental victory for gay rights, requirg that all stat license marriag between people of the same sex. As recently as 1986, for example, the urt found no nstutnal protectn agast laws banng nsensual homosexual sex.

Here is a brief history of gay-rights cisns at the urt. A Los Angel postmaster clared ONE: The Homosexual Magaze to be obscene and refed to liver . This was the first Supreme Court se to al wh homosexualy, and also the first victory there for gay rights.

A police officer Geia observed a man havg nsensual homosexual sex his own bedroom, an act which was then illegal there. The man was charged, and his se ma to the Supreme Court, where, a 5-4 loss for gay rights, the urt found no nstutnal protectn for acts of sodomy. After Colorado rints voted for a state nstutnal amendment precludg any laws protectg dividuals based on sexual orientatn, homosexuals and other groups sued.

THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE

The Boy Suts oted a former Eagle Sut om his posn as an assistant sutmaster when the anizatn found out that he was gay. Kennedy, by this pot a well-known champn of gay rights, aga livered the opn of the urt. "The ADF is untg on you to jo them seeg the LGBTQ muny as an outsized threat pared to the actual percentage of adult Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, " Greenmh Supreme Court's cisn the se is "yet another weapon the arsenal or arm of the octop" of the "same people who are phg the legislatn, " Greenmh Amerins support LGBTQ rights, surveys fdAnother recent survey also found most Amerins support nondiscrimatn protectns for LGBTQ Amerin adults – cludg two-thirds of those intifyg as Catholics or Christians – disagree wh relig-based nial of medil re, employment or other servic to LGBTQ dividuals, acrdg to a September 2022 survey nducted by the Universy of Chigo partnership wh the Williams Instute, a thk tank dited to genr inty and sexual orientatn rearch at the Universy of California Los Angel School of, pollg that asks qutns on the right of a bs owner to refe service based on their relig beliefs shows more mixed rults.

The veracy of a key document a major LGBTQ+ rights se before the US supreme urt has e unr qutn, raisg the possibily that important evince ced might be wrong or even supreme urt is expected to issue a lg on Friday 303 Creative LLC v Elenis, which als wh a challenge to a Colorado law prohibg public-servg bs om discrimatg agast gay people as well as any statements announcg such a su centers on Lorie Smh, a webse signer who do not want to provi her servic for gay weddgs bee of her relig 2016, she says, a gay man named Stewart requted her servic for help wh his upg weddg.

GAY UPLE CED BY CHRISTIAN WEB SIGNER WHO WON SUPREME COURT SE MAY NOT EXIST

Last year, lawyers for Colorado urged the jtic not to take the se bee Smh had not received a requt to make a webse for a gay 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.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led Friday, June 30, 2023, Smh who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File). In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led Friday, June 30, 2023, Smh who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl.

The cisn is a feat for gay rights. Supreme Court led Friday uld refe to make weddg webs for gay upl ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh requt dispute, om a person intified as “Stewart, ” wasn’t the basis for the feral lawsu filed preemptively seven years ago by web signer Lorie Smh, before she started makg weddg webs. But as the se advanced, was referenced by her attorneys when lawyers for the state of Colorado prsed Smh on whether she had sufficient grounds to revelatn distracts om Smh’s victory at a time when she might have been baskg her w, which is wily nsired a setback for gay rights.

Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple’s weddg ke, cg his Christian fah.

JUDGE DISMISS CASE AGAST 47 MEN CHARGED UNR NIGERIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW

But as the se advanced, was referenced by her attorneys when lawyers for the state of Colorado prsed Smh on whether she had sufficient grounds to revelatn distracts om Smh’s victory at a time when she might have been baskg her w, which is wily nsired a setback for gay named Stewart − and clud a webse service requt om him, listg his phone number and email addrs 2017 urt documents. However, acrdg to a Thursday story the New Republic, the only quiry Smh has ever received about potentially creatg a weddg webse for a gay uple apparently me om a man who says he never sent Smh (at left), a Christian graphic signer, prepar to speak to supporters outsi the Supreme Court on Dec. ”In a Zoom prs nference followg the lg, Smh’s lawyer Kristen Waggoner said the New Republic report “was absolutely unte” and “irrelevant to the se, ” but said they did not verify if the requt was om an actual gay uple or a “troll.

The se is beg terpreted by the protters as a step towards legimisg LGBTQ+ general secretary for Malawi Council of Church (MCC), the Rev Alemekezeke Chikondi Phiri, who helped anise Thursday’s march the ci of Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu and Zomba said the Christian church are not agast dividuals but that the practice of homosexualy is a s. “Jt as the church r for all sners, and wants them to repent, will also do the same wh gay men and lbians.

In fact, their march is ntrary to what is the urt, and I wonr if they really unrstand what they are dog bee the se is not about legalisg homosexualy, ” said Nyasa Rabow Alliance -founr and executive director, Eric Sambisa, said that as well as vlence, the LGBTQ+ muny Malawi is facg challeng to accs jtice. Ai|Judge Dismiss Case Agast 47 Men Charged Unr Nigeria’s Anti-Gay Law ADVERTISEMENTThe judge said prosecutors failed to appear urt or ll wns the trial, regard as a tt se of the dranian law enacted nearly seven years ago Ai’s most populo Alaja/RtersLAGOS, Nigeria — A Nigerian urt on Tuday threw out a se agast 47 men charged wh public displays of affectn wh members of same sex bee of what the judge lled the failure of prosecutors to appear urt and ll trial, heard Lagos, Nigeria’s biggt cy and mercial pal, was wily seen as a tt se for a law troduced 2014 that bans same-sex “amoro relatnships. Police officers said the men were beg iated to a gay club, but the fendants said they were attendg a birthday party.