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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE
• CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RENSIR NTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE LGS
• GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE REPEALED ESSAY
• THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• WHY JTICE ALO’S DRAFT OPN DOBBS DON’T THREATEN GAY MARRIAGE
• EFFORTS TO REPEAL VIRGIA'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN TT STATE'S PROGRSIVE CREDIBILY
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE

GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE

The celebratns across Ameri were massive as the lg was hand down on June 26th, cidg wh New York Cy Gay Pri weekend and pri celebratns throughout the untry.

Two of the ma sharks qutn are Jtice Clarence Thomas and Jtice Samuel Alo, who both, along wh late Jtice Anton Slia, were most adamant agast gay marriage and offered sthg dissents to support their sentiments. Then, this Monday, wh all the untry is gog through – ravaged by sickns, ath, protts, and social unrt, Thomas and Alo cid to turn their attentn once aga toward gay marriage. Thomas ma his opn known on the first day of the urt’s new term, and his antiquated attack on gay marriage as his first orr of bs lls to qutn, has he been stg back seethg anger for the past five years as gay people exercisg their nstutnal right to marry?

CLARENCE THOMAS SAYS SUPREME COURT SHOULD RENSIR NTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE LGS

On the one hand, may seem trivial when ’s jt the high-profile battle over whether or not a homophobic baker will make a ke for a gay uple; however, on the other hand, ’s opened the flood gat. In his lash-out agast gay marriage, Thomas went on to voke the name of Kim Davis, the former unty clerk Rowan, Kentucky, who fied feral law 2015 by refg to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl. Here we are 5 years later, and seems Thomas and Alo are gearg up to dismantle progrs and to argue that gay marriage passed unnstutnally.

In his dissent Thomas s that gay marriage impes upon the rights of those who do not believe God accepts marriage between same-sex upl. Hodg tread the same terrory 2015 to le gay marriage as a nstutnally protected right to speculated that the overturng of Roe would provi a blueprt for revisg years' worth of cisns that he says are "monstrably erroneo.

GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE REPEALED ESSAY

"Both lumns exprsed alarm at the nservative movement’s recent efforts to challenge aspects of the LGBTQ agenda, mentng the backlash agast a new Disney/Pixar movie, Florida's "Don’t’ Say Gay" Bill and nservative opposn to drag queen story hour events for children. Congrs should oppose any effort to regnize homosexuals as a "discreet and sular mory" entled to the protectn of anti-discrimatn laws siar to those extend to women and ethnic mori. The stutn of marriage has changed dramatilly wh the first two s of the 21st century due to the gradual acceptance of gay marriage.

The young generatn which most of them support gay marriage se the societal shift as an evable change that everyone should accept (Dimock et al., 2013). Liz Cheney of Wyomg -- a break om her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds wh her parents and sister, who is gay. Sometim the bate on gay marriage has been polarised, stg those who supported the measure as the right-thkg and those who opposed as irratnal and guilty of tac homophobia.

The law to allow gay marriage passed quickly and there are those who still feel they have not had a proper chance to air their ncerns. The relig scepticThere are relig people who oppose gay marriage primarily out of a fear that one day equaly laws will force a church, mosque or temple to host a ceremony. As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have e to rpect but n never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your ho, " he wrote the Daily Telegraph source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The historian David Starkey: "I'm torn on gay marriage"Actor Rupert Everett perhaps gave the most lourful argument agast, a 2012 terview the Guardian.

THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW

It's jt a waste of time the heterosexual world, and the homosexual world I fd personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this stutn that is so clearly a disaster. "Society gave legal and stutnal exprsn to what many hold to be te - that gay and lbian people should have the same rights to formalise their mment to each other and enjoy the social and legal benefs that oppose-sex upl have, " said the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the Hoe of Lords 2013.

In fact, be the potential Dobbs opn wh the realy that many red-state legislatur seem to be petg wh one another their eagerns to wage the culture war, and isn’t a renewed challenge to gay marriage all but evable? That’s why one should never sff at thoughtful opposg arguments, but the prcipal reason I don’t believe that Dobbs will impact gay marriage (or ntraceptiv, much ls terracial marriage or nsensual adult sexual timacy) is the language of Dobbs self. ” There are those who may simply disbelieve Alo, but if his draft opn holds as wrten, will be precent for the ia that abortn is substantially legally different om gay marriage.

There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay.

WHY JTICE ALO’S DRAFT OPN DOBBS DON’T THREATEN GAY MARRIAGE

Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom. A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them. “For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny.

Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group. “Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere. “As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships.

Hodg that same-sex upl have the right to marry “on the same terms and ndns as oppose-sex upl, ” dozens of stat still have nstutnal amendments on the books that ban gay marriage. In 1997, the General Assembly passed a statute nyg regnn of gay marriag performed other, 2006 — three years after Massachetts beme the first state to allow same-sex marriage — lawmakers sponsored the Virgia Marriage Amendment, a ballot iative rervg the stutn for one man and one woman.

EFFORTS TO REPEAL VIRGIA'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN TT STATE'S PROGRSIVE CREDIBILY

Virgia's progrsive evolutnDemocrats Virgia have moved quickly to advance LGBTQ rights sce gag ntrol of the General Assembly 2019: Last year, the Legislature banned so-lled nversn therapy on mors and passed the Virgia Valu Act, makg the first Southern state to pass anti-discrimatn protectns for the LGBTQ ssn, lawmakers are also workg to repeal Virgia's HIV crimalizatn law and strike down relign-nsc exemptns for foster re and adoptn Roem, the first transgenr member of the Virgia General Assembly, is also troducg legislatn to ban the so-lled panic fense, which has been ed to exce or migate vlent crim agast gay and transgenr said the General Assembly has bee creasgly supportive of gay rights sce he started as a legate 2004. 'A tale of two stat'Carol Schall, a platiff Virgia’s 2014 gay marriage se, said is well past time Virgia's Constutn reflect the will of the people.

ET): An earlier versn of this article misattributed a quote about the importance to young LGBTQ people of removg language about gay marriage om the Virgia Constutn. Adam Ebb, the first openly gay lawmaker the state’s General Assembly, troduced the bill, which was one of four pro-LGBTQ measur passed the state this month. Indiana is one of those stat, though an attempt to remove s gay marriage ban was unsuccsful last month the Republin-ntrolled state Legislature.

”Five years after the Supreme Court had s say on the issue, same-sex marriage remas a polilly ntent issue, and LGBTQ advot ntue to battle urtrooms and stateho to ensure gay upl n exercise their right to marry. The first one began the 1970s, when gay upl would apply for marriage licens and many state judg at the time led that the unns were not prohibed.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

” The “mi-DOMAs, ” he noted, banned gay marriage fay s and state law, not the 1998, Hawaii beme the first state to pass a nstutnal amendment specifilly targetg same-sex marriage. In some s, there is a lack of polil willgns to remove them, while others, the labor-tensive removal procs mak them a low Virgia, for example, while the two statutory laws banng same-sex marriage have been repealed, the state’s 2006 nstutnal amendment prohibg gay unns remas for the time beg.

Circu Court of Appeals found that, although Davis was immune om beg sued as a unty official, she uld be sued her dividual pacy for refg to ply wh the early 2016, Roy Moore, then the chief jtice of the Alabama Supreme Court, prohibed probate judg the state om issug marriage licens to gay upl. "We believe judg reta their right to relig liberty when they take the bench, " Paxton’s spokperson, Marc Rylanr, said a statement at the matrimonySce the legalizatn of same-sex marriage ferally, hundreds of state bills have been troduced that poke hol gay marriage var ways.

In addn, public opn has shifted strongly favor of same-sex marriage, wh a 2019 Gallup poll fdg 63 percent of Amerins approve of such, is gay marriage safe? And while Tmp claimed to be a “real iend” to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people durg the 2016 mpaign, Kadi said his admistratn is “no ally to the LGBTQ muny. It may seem surprisg to Amerin rears, but one of the most vibrant human rights movements around the world today is “gay reparatns, ” or polici tend to make amends for the legacy of systemic discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty.

GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE

A gay pri flag hangs at half-staff durg a memorial service for the victims of Florida’s Pulse nightclub shootg San Diego, California, on June 12, 2016. In most untri, gay reparatns are limed to a ernment apology to the LGBTQ muny for past wrongs and a promise to do better the future.

In 2008, the German ernment opened a monument to gay victims of the Holot, an unknown number whom perished Nazi ncentratn mps, many of them victims of gome medil experiments tend to eradite their homosexualy. In still other untri, gay reparatns have centered on a pardon to anyone nvicted unr laws that crimalized same-sex attractn, as the Uned Kgdom, which 2017 issued a posthumo pardon to those nvicted of “gross cency, ” cludg Alan Turg, the mathematician creded wh shorteng the end of World War II; or even fancial pensatn for wag or pensns lost due to havg spent time prison or a mental stutn bee of a homosexual offense, as Spa sce 2009 and Germany sce 2016.