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Contents:

• BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
• DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
• WHERE ARE THE GAY JUDG?
• JUDICIAL CULTURE STILL TERS GAY AND LBIAN LAWYERS, SAY REARCHERS
• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR

BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS

Only 14 out of 870 feral judghips are held by openly gay or lbian judg (cludg Robson), add, and there has never been an openly bisexual or transgenr judicial nomee.

DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED

Sir Terence Etherton, Bra’s first openly gay senr judge, has been appoted master of the rolls, makg him head of the civil judiciary England and 64-year-old lawyer’s promotn was nfirmed by an announcement om Downg Street on Thursday morng.

District Judge Julian Abele Cook 's a member of the Gay and Lbian Bar Associatn and has done pro bono for Lambda Legal, a nonprof LGBT legal aid group.

To provi an opportuny for judicial officers to meet and exchange views and to promote tn among s members and among the general public on legal and judicial issu related to the gay and lbian muny. To crease the visibily of lbian and gay judicial officers so as to serve as role mols for other lbian and gay people and to brg to the attentn of the general public the promence of the judicial officers. To ordate the sharg of rmatn between lbian and gay judicial officers and others the gay muny or the general muny.

WHERE ARE THE GAY JUDG?

That the Articl of Inrporatn of “The Internatnal Associatn of Lbian and Gay Judg” be amend to specify that “The name of this rporatn is ‘The Internatnal Associatn of LGBT Judg’ and that the purpose of the rporatn be amend the Articl of Inrporatn to reflect the cln of “legal and judicial issu related to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy” and. “The Uned Stat is more diverse than ever, yet our natn’s urts are pafully homogeno, ” said Eric Lh, director of Lambda Legal’s Fair Courts Project and the thor of the report. The 2015 US Supreme Court lg that legalized gay marriage was a cultural and legal landmark but not the end of the fight for equal rights.

JUDICIAL CULTURE STILL TERS GAY AND LBIAN LAWYERS, SAY REARCHERS

Still, a more diverse judiciary uld provi better odds for LGBTQ people fightg homophobic employers or simply tryg to change their genr inty on a driver’s license. The judiciary is failg to reflect the UK's gay and lbian muny, experts say, as rearch suggts is serly unr-reprented on the bench. Rearch by the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) law work Interlaw has found that judicial culture, the perceptn of hostily to gay judg and the isolated nature of the job are terrg gay and lbian lawyers om applyg for reers as study also suggts that gay and lbian lawyers fear that their private liv may be subject to addnal scty if they were to bee judg.

Although Nberger's report referred to creasg sexual diversy the judiciary, the Judicial Appotments Commissn (JAC) ‑ the official body rponsible for appotg judg ‑ has still not llected any data on the number of gay and lbian judg. In the 1970s, the then lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham, formally exclud gay and lbian lawyers om enterg the judiciary, by allowg only married people to be appoted to the practice was only end 1991, when the then lord chancellor, Lord Mackay, allowed unmarried people to bee judg. Court of appeal judge Sir Terence Etherton, high urt and ternatnal crimal urt judge Sir Adrian Fulford and circu judge Jeremy Richardson are among the few judg England and Wal known to be gay.

"We have no ia how many gay and lbian judg there actually are, " said Daniel Wterfeldt, partner at law firm Simmons & Simmons and founr of Interlaw.

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. 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. 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.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

“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. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH

Texas Judge Who Ref to Perform Gay Marriag Appeals to Supreme Court's Christian Web-Digner Rulg | Natnal Review.

Slowly but surely, the feral judiciary is beg more Tuday, lawmakers nfirmed two openly gay, black judicial nome, brgg the total number of openly gay feral judg past the double-dig mark. There are currently 10 openly gay judg stg on the feral bench, all of whom were appoted by Print a unanimo vote of 97-0, the U.

”Correctn: A prev versn of this story reported that there were 11 openly gay judg on the feral bench.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Bee of an edg error, this story origally reported that the Senate voted unanimoly Tuday to nfirm two openly gay, black judg.

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.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn. ”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn.

The dissentg jtic, he wrote, foced on “the stris gay Amerins have ma towards securg equal jtice unr law. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods. A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L.

Dale that the anizatn uld exclu gay sutmasters bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn’s “exprsive msage. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event. Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships.

GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR

Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L.

McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds.

Smh and her lawyers have emphasized that her objectn is not to workg wh same-sex upl or gay dividuals, but to signg webs for gay weddgs. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms.