In a historic cisn for the gay right's movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U.S. Constutn grants same-sex upl the right to marry. Jtice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry.
Contents:
- COMMEMORATG THE SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE CISN 5 YEARS LATER
- ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
- TED CZ: SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CISN WAS ‘CLEARLY WRONG’
- WEB SIGNER OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE AT CENTER OF U.S. SUPREME COURT CLASH
- I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
- THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
COMMEMORATG THE SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE CISN 5 YEARS LATER
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Friday, the natn remember the historic South Bend Mayor and one of the first openly gay printial ndidat, Pete Buttigieg, tweeted, "Five years ago today, by the grace of a sgle vote on the Supreme Court, the eedom to marry beme real for lns of . Then, seven years later, the Defense Department end s policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " allowg gay and bisexual soldiers to openly serve the ary. Kirsten Gillibrand wrote on Karger, the first openly gay major-party printial ndidate who ran for the Republin nomatn the 2012 printial electn, lled platiff Jim Obergefell a "hero" on Jean Kg, pro-tennis player turned activist, is now nsired to be a femist and lbian in.
"Nearly five years after grantg gay and lbians the right to marry, the Supreme Court expand LGBTQ rights once aga this year, on June 15.
‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the urt led, 5-4, that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. * scotus on gay marriage *
Kennedy, then the center of the High Court, rejected the optns before him, cidg agast sidg wh a same-sex uple who had been nied a ke for their Colorado weddg receptn and agast sidg wh the baker who said his oven was off-lims to gay upl. Jt a few weeks ago, when Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the natn’s hight-rankg Senate-nfirmed gay member of the Bin Admistratn, joed TIME’s Washgton Bure for a wi-rangg nversatn, he was blunt: “I mean, Roe fell and that was the law of the land for longer than I’ve been alive.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
The Court led favor of gay rights as early as 1958. But s cisns haven't always sid wh the LGBT muny. * scotus on gay marriage *
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THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
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TED CZ: SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CISN WAS ‘CLEARLY WRONG’
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WEB SIGNER OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE AT CENTER OF U.S. SUPREME COURT CLASH
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I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
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.
THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
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.