A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- JTICE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT HAS SIGNALED SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT ‘SHOULD RENSIR’ GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH NTROL
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- CLARENCE THOMAS LLS FOR SUPREME COURT TO 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE, NTRACEPTN AFTER ROE V. WA FALLS
- CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT
- GAY CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT JTICE LLS OUT U.S. SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG REPEAL IA
- IN ABORTN OPN, THOMAS URG SUPREME COURT TO ‘RENSIR’ GAY RIGHTS LGS DPE ASSURANC OM THE URT, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS LLED TO QUTN PREV CISNS ON LGBT RIGHTS AND NTRACEPTN. IN A NCURRG OPN WRTEN THE ABORTN SE OVERTURNG ROE V. WA, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SHOULD "RENSIR" IMPORTANT LGBT RIGHTS CISNS NEXT, CLUDG LGS STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX AND LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.BY LREN MCGGHY3:19 PM ON JUN 24, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S HISTORIC CISN OVERTURNG ROE VS. WA MA ASSURANC THAT GAY RIGHTS ARE NOT ON THE CHOPPG BLOCK RIGHT NOW. BUT ONE JTICE WARNED LGBT AMERINS THAT THEY SHOULDN’T UNT ON THAT PROMISE FOR LONG.IN THE URT’S MAJORY OPN, JTICE SAMUEL ALO WROTE THAT FRIDAY’S CISN SOLELY ALT WH THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND SHOULD NOT BE READ AS A THREAT TO PREV LGS ON ISSU LIKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ADVERTISEMENTBUT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, A NCURRG OPN, WARNED THAT OLD CISNS ON SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY, GAY MARRIAGE AND EVEN NTRACEPTN ULD — AND SHOULD — BE REVERSED IF THE URT IS ASKED FUTURE BEE THEY ARE BASED ON THE SAME NSTUTNAL PRCIPL AS ROE.ADVERTISEMENT“IN FUTURE S, WE SHOULD RENSIR ALL OF THIS URT’S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCS PRECENTS,” THOMAS WROTE. HE THEN REFERRED SPECIFILLY TO LAWRENCE VS. TEXAS, THE 2003 LG STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX TEXAS AND 12 OTHER STAT, AND OBERGEFELL VS. HODG, THE 2015 LG LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHE MSAGE TO LGBT AMERINS IS THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW, NSTUTNAL LAW EXPERT DALE CARPENTER SAID. IF THE URT, WHICH IS MORE NSERVATIVE THAN EVER, IS ASKED TO RENSIR THE LGS THE FUTURE, NOW HAS THE PLAYBOOK TO KNOCK THEM DOWN.“MY BOTTOM LE IS I’M NOT FEARFUL FOR MY OWN MARRIAGE OR MARRIAG OF SAME-SEX UPL THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. BUT ASK ME AGA 50 YEARS,” SAID CARPENTER, THE CHAIR OF NSTUTNAL LAW AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? ON THE LAST WEEKEND OF PRI MONTH, LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAID THOMAS SHOWED THEM THEY ARE THE “SUPREME COURT’S NEXT TARGET.”“THOMAS’S NCURRENCE IS A BLARG RED ALERT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY AND FOR ALL AMERINS,” SAID SARAH KATE ELLIS, PRINT AND CEO OF GLAAD, A PRO-LGBT MEDIA ADVOCY GROUP. “BETWEEN THIS THREAT AND TODAY’S REVERSAL OF ABORTN RIGHTS, WE N NO LONGER TST THAT THE SUPREME COURT IS OPERATG THE TERTS OF THE MAJORY OF AMERINS.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DID THE OPNS SAY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?ALO’S OPN, WHICH FOUR OF THE URT’S NSERVATIVE JTIC SIGNED ONTO, CLUDG THOMAS, SAID THERE IS NO NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN BEE THE CONSTUTN DO NOT EXPLICLY GIVE AMERINS THE RIGHT TO TERMATE A PREGNANCY, AND THE RIGHT TO ACCS ABORTN IS NOT EPLY ROOTED THE NATN’S HISTORY OR TRADN.ADVERTISEMENTBUT THE OPN GO OUT OF S WAY TO MAKE ASSURANC THAT OTHER RIGHTS PREVLY LED ON BY THE URT, SUCH AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY PARTNER TIMACY, WERE NOT AT ISSUE HERE. LGBT RIGHTS ARE MENTNED AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN TIM. ON FOUR SEPARATE OCSNS, ALO REPEATED THAT THIS LG WAS LIMED TO THE QUTN OF ABORTN.“WE HAVE STATED UNEQUIVOLLY THAT ‘[N]OTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,’ ” ALO WROTE. “IT IS HARD TO SEE HOW WE ULD BE CLEARER.”JTICE BRETT KAVANGH REERATED THE POT HIS OWN NCURRG OPN STRONGER TERMS: “OVERLG ROE DO NOT MEAN THE OVERLG OF THOSE PRECENTS [ON NTRACEPTN, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND DO NOT THREATEN OR ST DOUBT ON THOSE PRECENTS.”ADVERTISEMENTTHE MAJORY, SEEKG AGA TO UNRSRE THE POT, ACCED THE THREE LIBERAL JTIC’ DISSENT OF STOKG AN “UNFOUND FEAR THAT OUR CISN WILL IMPERIL THOSE OTHER RIGHTS.”BUT THOMAS HIS NCURRG OPN OPENLY URGED THE URT TO TAKE UP S THAT LOOKED ANEW AT THE MARRIAGE AND SODOMY LGS, AS WELL AS NTRACEPTN, AND TO KNOCK THEM DOWN IF ASKED.ONLY “AFTER OVERLG THE MONSTRABLY ERRONEO CISNS,” HE SAID, ULD THE URT CI WHETHER THE RIGHTS N BE PROTECTED BASED ON SOME OTHER PROVISN THE CONSTUTN.RELATED:'HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT' WAS ILLEGAL 15 YEARS AGO. HOW FAR HAVE LGBTQ RIGHTS TEXAS E SCE?ADVERTISEMENTTHE URT’S THREE LIBERAL JTIC SEIZED ON THOMAS’ OPN. IN A DISSENT THAT PULLED NO PUNCH, JTICE STEPHEN BREYER ACCED THE MAJORY OF BEG SHORTSIGHTED AT BT AND CEFUL AT WORST. THEY KNOW THE OTHER RIGHTS ARE AT RISK BEE THEY ALSO AREN’T EXPLICLY MENTNED THE CONSTUTN OR ROOTED HISTORY, HE SAID.“NOT UNTIL ROE, THE MAJORY ARGU, DID PEOPLE THK ABORTN FELL WH THE CONSTUTN’S GUARANTEE OF LIBERTY. THE SAME ULD BE SAID, THOUGH, OF MOST OF THE RIGHTS THE MAJORY CLAIMS IS NOT TAMPERG WH,” BREYER WROTE. “EHER THE MASS OF THE MAJORY’S OPN IS HYPOCRISY, OR ADDNAL NSTUTNAL RIGHTS ARE UNR THREAT. IT IS ONE OR THE OTHER.”HE POTED TO THOMAS AS THE PROOF.“AT LEAST ONE JTICE IS PLANNG TO E THE TICKET OF TODAY’S CISN AGA AND AGA AND AGA,” BREYER WARNED.ADVERTISEMENT“WHATEVER TODAY’S MAJORY MIGHT SAY, ONE THG REALLY DO LEAD TO ANOTHER. WE FERVENTLY HOPE THAT DO NOT HAPPEN BEE OF TODAY’S CISN,” THE DISSENT NCLUD. “WE NNOT UNRSTAND HOW ANYONE N BE NFINT THAT TODAY’S OPN WILL BE THE LAST OF S KD.”CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS AGREED WH THE URT’S JUDGMENT BUT DID NOT JO THE MAJORY OPN. IN A NCURRG OPN OF HIS OWN, HE SAID THE URT SHOULD HAVE CID THE NARROW QUTN OF WHETHER MISSISSIPPI’S 15-WEEK ABORTN BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL AND LEAVE AT THAT.HE DID NOT ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS AS THE OTHER JTIC DID.WHAT ULD HAPPEN WH GAY RIGHTS?
JTICE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT HAS SIGNALED SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Jtice Clarence Thomas implicly suggted that the Supreme Court will legalize gay marriage across the untry June. * clarence gay rights *
12 Jtice Clarence Thomas cricized the Supreme Court’s cisn not to postpone the start of same-sex marriag Alabama Monday, a dissent that suggted his lleagu had already ma up their md on gay marriage ahead of a lg later this term. ” Read More: Why the Supreme Court is Set to Make History on Gay Marriage U.
He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light's disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. * clarence gay rights *
The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.
But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.
But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * clarence gay rights *
In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends. ” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual.
), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”. ) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver. Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck.
As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns. While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney.
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson.
He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more. Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg . He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June. Acrdg to the statement, the new cktail reclaims the ia that “gay means happy.
Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.
One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.
Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.
CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT ‘SHOULD RENSIR’ GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH NTROL
Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.
Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said.
CLARENCE THOMAS LLS FOR SUPREME COURT TO 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE, NTRACEPTN AFTER ROE V. WA FALLS
Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law. Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said.
In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims. Gay workers were also facg job discrimatn a natn already bet by high unemployment. Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace.
"The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, " said Cristian González Cabrera, gay rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch.
CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT
Six other Wtern natns -- cludg Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia -- ntue to crimalize gay sex, wh penalti as weighty as a prison for "gross cency wh another person of the same sex. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.
Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.
Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas lled for his lleagu to re-exame and potentially overturn lgs that protect gay marriage and accs to birth ntrol an opn ncurrg wh Friday’s landmark cisn endg feral abortn rights. Texas, that forbids stat om outlawg nsensual gay sex, and Obergefell v.
GAY CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT JTICE LLS OUT U.S. SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG REPEAL IA
Hodg cisn legalized gay marriage Photo/Cliff Owen).
Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn. Wa, cludg accs to ntraceptn and gay marriage, an opn that sparked an outcry on the ' ncurrg opn – which no other member of the urt joed – tracks wh an argument abortn rights groups had ma for months leadg up to the urt's blockbter abortn cisn: a lg that the Constutn don't protect a right to an abortn would jeopardize other rights the urt tablished unr the 14th Amendment.
IN ABORTN OPN, THOMAS URG SUPREME COURT TO ‘RENSIR’ GAY RIGHTS LGS DPE ASSURANC OM THE URT, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS LLED TO QUTN PREV CISNS ON LGBT RIGHTS AND NTRACEPTN. IN A NCURRG OPN WRTEN THE ABORTN SE OVERTURNG ROE V. WA, JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SHOULD "RENSIR" IMPORTANT LGBT RIGHTS CISNS NEXT, CLUDG LGS STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX AND LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.BY LREN MCGGHY3:19 PM ON JUN 24, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S HISTORIC CISN OVERTURNG ROE VS. WA MA ASSURANC THAT GAY RIGHTS ARE NOT ON THE CHOPPG BLOCK RIGHT NOW. BUT ONE JTICE WARNED LGBT AMERINS THAT THEY SHOULDN’T UNT ON THAT PROMISE FOR LONG.IN THE URT’S MAJORY OPN, JTICE SAMUEL ALO WROTE THAT FRIDAY’S CISN SOLELY ALT WH THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND SHOULD NOT BE READ AS A THREAT TO PREV LGS ON ISSU LIKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ADVERTISEMENTBUT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, A NCURRG OPN, WARNED THAT OLD CISNS ON SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY, GAY MARRIAGE AND EVEN NTRACEPTN ULD — AND SHOULD — BE REVERSED IF THE URT IS ASKED FUTURE BEE THEY ARE BASED ON THE SAME NSTUTNAL PRCIPL AS ROE.ADVERTISEMENT“IN FUTURE S, WE SHOULD RENSIR ALL OF THIS URT’S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCS PRECENTS,” THOMAS WROTE. HE THEN REFERRED SPECIFILLY TO LAWRENCE VS. TEXAS, THE 2003 LG STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX TEXAS AND 12 OTHER STAT, AND OBERGEFELL VS. HODG, THE 2015 LG LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHE MSAGE TO LGBT AMERINS IS THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW, NSTUTNAL LAW EXPERT DALE CARPENTER SAID. IF THE URT, WHICH IS MORE NSERVATIVE THAN EVER, IS ASKED TO RENSIR THE LGS THE FUTURE, NOW HAS THE PLAYBOOK TO KNOCK THEM DOWN.“MY BOTTOM LE IS I’M NOT FEARFUL FOR MY OWN MARRIAGE OR MARRIAG OF SAME-SEX UPL THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. BUT ASK ME AGA 50 YEARS,” SAID CARPENTER, THE CHAIR OF NSTUTNAL LAW AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? ON THE LAST WEEKEND OF PRI MONTH, LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAID THOMAS SHOWED THEM THEY ARE THE “SUPREME COURT’S NEXT TARGET.”“THOMAS’S NCURRENCE IS A BLARG RED ALERT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY AND FOR ALL AMERINS,” SAID SARAH KATE ELLIS, PRINT AND CEO OF GLAAD, A PRO-LGBT MEDIA ADVOCY GROUP. “BETWEEN THIS THREAT AND TODAY’S REVERSAL OF ABORTN RIGHTS, WE N NO LONGER TST THAT THE SUPREME COURT IS OPERATG THE TERTS OF THE MAJORY OF AMERINS.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DID THE OPNS SAY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?ALO’S OPN, WHICH FOUR OF THE URT’S NSERVATIVE JTIC SIGNED ONTO, CLUDG THOMAS, SAID THERE IS NO NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN BEE THE CONSTUTN DO NOT EXPLICLY GIVE AMERINS THE RIGHT TO TERMATE A PREGNANCY, AND THE RIGHT TO ACCS ABORTN IS NOT EPLY ROOTED THE NATN’S HISTORY OR TRADN.ADVERTISEMENTBUT THE OPN GO OUT OF S WAY TO MAKE ASSURANC THAT OTHER RIGHTS PREVLY LED ON BY THE URT, SUCH AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY PARTNER TIMACY, WERE NOT AT ISSUE HERE. LGBT RIGHTS ARE MENTNED AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN TIM. ON FOUR SEPARATE OCSNS, ALO REPEATED THAT THIS LG WAS LIMED TO THE QUTN OF ABORTN.“WE HAVE STATED UNEQUIVOLLY THAT ‘[N]OTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,’ ” ALO WROTE. “IT IS HARD TO SEE HOW WE ULD BE CLEARER.”JTICE BRETT KAVANGH REERATED THE POT HIS OWN NCURRG OPN STRONGER TERMS: “OVERLG ROE DO NOT MEAN THE OVERLG OF THOSE PRECENTS [ON NTRACEPTN, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND DO NOT THREATEN OR ST DOUBT ON THOSE PRECENTS.”ADVERTISEMENTTHE MAJORY, SEEKG AGA TO UNRSRE THE POT, ACCED THE THREE LIBERAL JTIC’ DISSENT OF STOKG AN “UNFOUND FEAR THAT OUR CISN WILL IMPERIL THOSE OTHER RIGHTS.”BUT THOMAS HIS NCURRG OPN OPENLY URGED THE URT TO TAKE UP S THAT LOOKED ANEW AT THE MARRIAGE AND SODOMY LGS, AS WELL AS NTRACEPTN, AND TO KNOCK THEM DOWN IF ASKED.ONLY “AFTER OVERLG THE MONSTRABLY ERRONEO CISNS,” HE SAID, ULD THE URT CI WHETHER THE RIGHTS N BE PROTECTED BASED ON SOME OTHER PROVISN THE CONSTUTN.RELATED:'HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT' WAS ILLEGAL 15 YEARS AGO. HOW FAR HAVE LGBTQ RIGHTS TEXAS E SCE?ADVERTISEMENTTHE URT’S THREE LIBERAL JTIC SEIZED ON THOMAS’ OPN. IN A DISSENT THAT PULLED NO PUNCH, JTICE STEPHEN BREYER ACCED THE MAJORY OF BEG SHORTSIGHTED AT BT AND CEFUL AT WORST. THEY KNOW THE OTHER RIGHTS ARE AT RISK BEE THEY ALSO AREN’T EXPLICLY MENTNED THE CONSTUTN OR ROOTED HISTORY, HE SAID.“NOT UNTIL ROE, THE MAJORY ARGU, DID PEOPLE THK ABORTN FELL WH THE CONSTUTN’S GUARANTEE OF LIBERTY. THE SAME ULD BE SAID, THOUGH, OF MOST OF THE RIGHTS THE MAJORY CLAIMS IS NOT TAMPERG WH,” BREYER WROTE. “EHER THE MASS OF THE MAJORY’S OPN IS HYPOCRISY, OR ADDNAL NSTUTNAL RIGHTS ARE UNR THREAT. IT IS ONE OR THE OTHER.”HE POTED TO THOMAS AS THE PROOF.“AT LEAST ONE JTICE IS PLANNG TO E THE TICKET OF TODAY’S CISN AGA AND AGA AND AGA,” BREYER WARNED.ADVERTISEMENT“WHATEVER TODAY’S MAJORY MIGHT SAY, ONE THG REALLY DO LEAD TO ANOTHER. WE FERVENTLY HOPE THAT DO NOT HAPPEN BEE OF TODAY’S CISN,” THE DISSENT NCLUD. “WE NNOT UNRSTAND HOW ANYONE N BE NFINT THAT TODAY’S OPN WILL BE THE LAST OF S KD.”CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS AGREED WH THE URT’S JUDGMENT BUT DID NOT JO THE MAJORY OPN. IN A NCURRG OPN OF HIS OWN, HE SAID THE URT SHOULD HAVE CID THE NARROW QUTN OF WHETHER MISSISSIPPI’S 15-WEEK ABORTN BAN WAS UNNSTUTNAL AND LEAVE AT THAT.HE DID NOT ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS AS THE OTHER JTIC DID.WHAT ULD HAPPEN WH GAY RIGHTS?
"In future s, we should rensir all of this urt’s substantive due procs precents, cludg Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell, " Thomas wrote, referrg to landmark opns that blocked stat om banng ntraceptn, sex by same-sex upl and gay marriage. Same-sex marriage was unthkable, the sense that had barely been nceived of by even the most imagative gay activists, much ls straight people, the urts, or the legislatur.
In the neti, some gay and lbian activists lnched a ncerted effort to get the untry to thk about same-sex marriage. (L-R) Associate Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas and his wife and nservative activist Virgia Thomas arrive at the Herage Foundatn on October 21, 2021 Washgton, Angerer | Getty ImagA gay Connecticut Supreme Court jtice suggted that U. Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas was beg hypocril llg for rensiratn of lgs ensurg legal rights for gay people — while not llg for the repeal of a siar lg that allows Thomas to be married to a whe McDonald, a senr associate jtice on Connecticut's high urt, took a shot at Thomas a Facebook post after the U.