This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments about equal rights for gay Amerins. But we already know what Slia thks.
Contents:
- ANTON SLIA ROUTELY LED AGAST GAY RIGHTS. THOSE OPNS EXPLA HIS PHILOSOPHY.
- THE BCHIT QUOT OM SLIA’S GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT
- ANTON SLIA: SCOTUS LOGIC ON GAY RIGHTS COULD LEAD TO PROTECTNS FOR CHILD ABERS
- READ SLIA GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT: SUPREME COURT JTICE SLAMS 'CONSTUTNAL REVISN'
- SLIA'S SON SPEAKG AT CONFERENCE PROMOTG CHASTY FOR GAYS
- SLIA WARNED LAWRENCE V. TEXAS DISSENT THAT STRIKG DOWN SODOMY LAWS WOULD LEAD TO GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE WILL GO NATNWI 10 YEARS, LAWRENCE V. TEXAS ATTORNEY PREDICTS
ANTON SLIA ROUTELY LED AGAST GAY RIGHTS. THOSE OPNS EXPLA HIS PHILOSOPHY.
How Slia's opns on gay rights expla the late Supreme Court jtice. * scalia lgbt *
Perhaps no cha of s monstrated this better than Slia's very nsistent opposn to gay rights.
In his view, wasn't so much that he was opposed to gay rights — although he was — but that such rights simply weren't protected by a very origalist terpretatn of the Constutn and s amendments.
Slia's opposn to gay rights showed his brand of nservatism. Slia was a nsistent opponent of nstutnal claims ma on behalf of gay rights. At the heart of Slia's opposn to gay rights was his view that the US Constutn simply did not protect the rights of gay people.
THE BCHIT QUOT OM SLIA’S GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT
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So the three major s that me to the urt sce 2003, Slia oped agast gay rights sometim btal dissents. His lleagu, of urse, argued that the 14th Amendment protected gay people — by forbiddg any level of ernment om passg discrimatory laws that nied people their fundamental rights. Slia rejected the view, claimg the Constutn, the 14th Amendment, and their amers ma no mentn of gay rights and therefore did not tend to protect gay people.
ANTON SLIA: SCOTUS LOGIC ON GAY RIGHTS COULD LEAD TO PROTECTNS FOR CHILD ABERS
Texas 2003, where the Court led that stat' anti-sodomy laws — which effectively banned gay sex — were unnstutnal, Slia warned his dissent that the logic ed to strike down the lg uld upend stat' laws agast same-sex marriage:. The Supreme Court reasoned that all the anti-gay laws were unnstutnal for largely the same reason: They discrimated agast a group of people by whholdg fundamental rights and vlated the 14th Amendment.
Slia's stance on gay rights monstrated his origalist view: He believed the Constutn uldn't protect gay rights, bee no one uld envisn, for example, same-sex marriage as an issue back when the Constutn and s amendments were wrten.
So Slia's view, the urt's pro–gay rights cisns read rights and lims to the Constutn that simply didn't exist, and therefore allowed the Court to strike down laws that were, his opn, nstutnally valid.
READ SLIA GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT: SUPREME COURT JTICE SLAMS 'CONSTUTNAL REVISN'
Homosexual sodomy? His many reflectns on homosexualy formed a notable part of his judicial legacy.
This story was published March 2013, as the urt prepared to hear historic gay rights s. ” Judgg by the thgs he has said urt or wrten his legal opns about gays and lbians, he don’t really mean . Dpe Slia’s long public history of exprsg revulsn and ntempt for gays and lbians, on the subject of whether people of the same sex should be allowed to marry, he is among the ne people whose opns will really matter.
Here are the lowlights of Slia’s anti-gay ments:. Texas, the se challengg a Texas law that crimalized homosexual sex, Slia me up wh a tastels analogy to illtrate the issue. Let’s throw gay people jail bee some people don’t like them.
SLIA'S SON SPEAKG AT CONFERENCE PROMOTG CHASTY FOR GAYS
In his dissent Lawrence, Slia argued that moral objectns to homosexualy were sufficient jtifitn for crimalizg gay sex. “Many Amerins do not want persons who openly engage homosexual nduct as partners their bs, as sutmasters for their children, as teachers their children’s schools, or as boarrs their home, ” he wrote. Laws banng homosexual sex are like laws banng murr.
Surely that is the only sort of ‘anim’ at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual nduct[. Slia cid to take the “moral disapproval” argument up a notch his dissent Lawrence, wrg that the Texas ban on homosexual sex “unniably seeks to further the belief of s cizens that certa forms of sexual behavr are ‘immoral and unacceptable, '” like laws agast “fornitn, bigamy, adultery, adult ct, btialy, and obsceny.
Homosexual upl are like roommat. “[Colorado’s ban] prohibs special treatment of homosexuals, and nothg more, ” Slia wrote.
SLIA WARNED LAWRENCE V. TEXAS DISSENT THAT STRIKG DOWN SODOMY LAWS WOULD LEAD TO GAY MARRIAGE
“[I]t would prevent the State or any municipaly om makg ath benef payments to the ‘life partner’ of a homosexual when do not make such payments to the long time roommate of a nonhomosexual employee. In one sectn, he plas that banng discrimatn based on sexual orientatn hirg amounts to grantg gays and lbians special treatment that Republins, adulterers, and Cubs haters don’t get.
GAY MARRIAGE WILL GO NATNWI 10 YEARS, LAWRENCE V. TEXAS ATTORNEY PREDICTS
Have gays and lbians tried NOT havg homosexual sex? ” But Slia poted out that gays and lbians uld jt have sex wh people of the oppose sex stead. “Men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, are all subject to [Texas’] prohibn of viate sexual terurse wh someone of the same sex.
Countls dividuals, cludg gay marriage platiff Jim Obergefell, have paid their rpects to Jtice Slia for his years of service on the natn's hight urt, regnizg the almost parable fluence he has had Amerin law and polics sce he was nomated by Print Reagan 1986. While ndolenc are appropriate at this time, we feel 's also equally appropriate to remember jt how stnchly Slia opposed gay rights throughout his tenure on the Supreme Court.
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