Mississippi ernor signs law allowg bs to refe service to gay people - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• SUPREME COURT TO CI WHETHER SOME BS N REFE TO SERVE GAY CTOMERS
• A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
• THE SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• MORE AMERINS OK WH BS NOT SERVG GAYS BASED ON RELIGN, SURVEY FDS
• MISSISSIPPI ERNOR SIGNS LAW ALLOWG BS TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY PEOPLE
• NCAA ‘NCERNED’ OVER INDIANA LAW THAT ALLOWS BIZ TO REJECT GAYS
• U.S. SUPREME COURT TAK UP COLORADO SE OF BS SEEKG TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY UPL

SUPREME COURT TO CI WHETHER SOME BS N REFE TO SERVE GAY CTOMERS

The Supreme Court said Tuday will ci whether certa bs wh relig objectns n refe to offer their servic for same-sex weddgs, a qutn has nsistently ducked sce s landmark gay marriage lg se volv a Colorado webse signer, Lorie Smh, who planned to expand her bs to serve upl gettg married. The Uned Stat Supreme Court jt agreed to ci a se about whether a bs n refe to sell mercial goods to a gay uple bee of the bs owner’s relig beliefs.

A w for the bs uld gut the natn’s civil rights laws, licensg discrimatn not jt agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, but agast anyone protected by our non-discrimatn l. The relig exemptns issue has gaed promence recently as civil rights protectns for gay and transgenr people have bee more wispread.

A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY

" Web signer Smh not that she has created webs for gay and lbian clients sellg other products and servic, but that she believ marriage is between a man and a woman. “By issug this new license to discrimate a se brought by a pany that seeks to ny same-sex upl the full and equal enjoyment of s servic, the immediate, symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat, ” she wrote dissent.

THE SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL

Rchie Torr, an openly gay member of the Hoe, said on Twter that the urt’s majory “vok relig liberty to license discrimatn agast LGBTQ people.

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

In 2018, the Supreme Court narrowly led favor of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple’s weddg. (The state sists that would not pel Smh to actually sign a weddg webse but merely to sell a preexistg template to all ctomers; Gorsuch simply dismissed this claim, while simultaneoly cricizg the state for s ostensible eagerns to punish Smh and other anti-gay bs owners.

Smh, he nclud, was not discrimatg agast gay people bee of their sexual orientatn; she was refg to exprs a msage about sexual orientatn that she do not believe.

” He exprsed approval for LGBTQ+ nondiscrimatn laws as a general matter, wrg that stat may “protect gay persons” jt like any other class “ acquirg whatever products and servic they choose on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public.

MORE AMERINS OK WH BS NOT SERVG GAYS BASED ON RELIGN, SURVEY FDS

“By issug this new license to discrimate a se brought by a pany that seeks to ny same-sex upl the full and equal enjoyment of s servic, ” she wrote, “the immediate, symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat.

Sotomayor also speculated that every anti-gay bs owner will now attempt to rest their discrimatn as “exprsn” to secure a First Amendment right to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people. She ced var exampl of recent anti-gay discrimatn, cludg a funeral home that refed to cremate and hold a memorial service for a gay man. While urts and feral agenci have found some protectns for gay and transgenr Amerins unr existg statut, efforts to pass a law that explicly mak illegal to ny them an apartment or fire them om a job have faltered.

LGBT rights advot have been phg to pass such laws for s, startg long before their succsful fights to legalize same-sex marriage and allow gay people to serve openly the ary.

MISSISSIPPI ERNOR SIGNS LAW ALLOWG BS TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY PEOPLE

And, though public attus toward gay people have radilly shifted sce the first bill of this kd was troduced the 1970s, transgenr rights have recently ascend as an area of ntroversy between the right and left.

‘A slippery slope’ The first versn of the Equaly Act was troduced 1974, durg a productive time for civil rights but a ght time for gay Amerins.

NCAA ‘NCERNED’ OVER INDIANA LAW THAT ALLOWS BIZ TO REJECT GAYS

The bill, which vered only sexual orientatn, didn’t get a hearg for six years and faced opposn once did, cludg allegatns that beg gay was an “abomatn. That measure still faced objectns based on the notn that beg gay was an objectnable “liftyle, ” as well as allegatns that the protectns amounted to special treatment.

In 2007, Democratic Congrsman Barney Frank, an openly gay lawmaker and a hero of the gay rights movement, troduced a bill that, for the first time, clud genr inty as well as sexual orientatn. The clearer path, he says, was for Democrats to pursue the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” the law banng the open service of gays and lbians the ary. 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.

U.S. SUPREME COURT TAK UP COLORADO SE OF BS SEEKG TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY UPL

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.

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.