After Roe and abortn, is Supreme Court's Obergefell gay marriage lg safe? Will Clarence Thomas end same-sex marriage protectns? Not necsarily.
Contents:
- A NEW CLASH BETWEEN FAH AND GAY RIGHTS ARRIV AT A CHANGED SUPREME COURT
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE
A NEW CLASH BETWEEN FAH AND GAY RIGHTS ARRIV AT A CHANGED SUPREME COURT
Abortn no longer is a feral right wh Roe v. Wa overturned. Supreme Court Jtice Thomas now is eyeg s related to gay rights and birth ntrol. * supreme court to go after gay rights *
“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. Sce the mid-1990s, the natn's top urt has gradually expand protectns for gays and lbians, largely unr the learship of former Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who retired ne-judge urt currently has six Republin appote, cludg three nomated by former Print Donald Tmp.
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
And Jtice Neil Gorsuch, Tmp's first pick, thored the urt's last major opn expandg LGBT rights, last June, a cisn that prohibed discrimatn agast gay or transgenr workers.
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA New Clash Between Fah and Gay Rights Arriv at a Changed Supreme CourtA Colorado graphic signer says she has a First Amendment right to refe to create webs for same-sex weddgs spe a state anti-discrimatn law.
SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS GAY RIGHTS, NTRACEPTN LGS SHOULD BE RENSIRED AFTER ROE IS OVERTURNED
“When I chose to start my own bs as an artist to create ctom exprsn, I did not surrenr my First Amendment rights, ” Lorie Smh Woolf for The New York TimFollow our live verage of the Supreme Court heargs that ps ee speech agast gay rights. — Ten years ago, a Colorado baker named Jack Phillips turned away a gay uple who had asked him for a weddg ke, sayg that a state law forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn mt yield to his dispute, a whe-hot flash pot the culture wars, ma to the Supreme Court. Supporters of gay rights fear that a lg for Ms.
ImageJack Phillips turned away a gay uple who had asked him for a weddg ke 10 years ago, rultg a lawsu that ma to the Supreme Cote for The New York TimImageCharlie Craig, left, and David Mulls, the uple who requted a weddg ke by Mr. Smh are reprented by Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian law firm and advocy group that has ligated many s for clients opposed to abortn, ntraceptn verage, and gay and transgenr Weiser, Colorado’s attorney general, said there was an important difference between the Masterpiece Cakhop se and the new one.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
In the Masterpiece Cakhop se, Profsor Carpenter filed a brief supportg the gay uple along wh Eugene Volokh of the Universy of California, Los the new se, they took Ms. Profsor Carpenter did so, he explaed an terview, part bee he has voted his reer to the e of advancg gay rights. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Jtic Face A New Clash On Gay Rights.
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.
GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE
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. 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.
Associate Jtice Clarence Thomas pos durg a group photo of the Jtic at the Supreme Court Washgton, April 23, Schaff | Pool | RtersSupreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas on Friday said landmark high urt lgs that tablished gay rights and ntraceptn rights should be rensired now that the feral right to abortn has been wrote that those lgs "were monstrably erroneo cisns. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L.