Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s cisn to sign to law a measure that uld allow bs to turn away gay and lbian ctomers the name of “relig eedom” has left the NCAA ettg ahead of next week’s men’s basketball Fal Four Indianapolis.
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
There is a rise relig refals among bs owners who do not want to serve lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer, or LGBTQ, ctomers. * is there a law to allow business not to serve lgbt *
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. " 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. 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.
A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
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 SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL
(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.
“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.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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. 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. 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.
MORE AMERINS OK WH BS NOT SERVG GAYS BASED ON RELIGN, SURVEY FDS
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. 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.
MISSISSIPPI ERNOR SIGNS LAW ALLOWG BS TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY PEOPLE
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. 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.
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.
NCAA ‘NCERNED’ OVER INDIANA LAW THAT ALLOWS BIZ TO REJECT GAYS
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.
” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah.
U.S. SUPREME COURT TAK UP COLORADO SE OF BS SEEKG TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY UPL
“Broad exemptns to allow relig-based discrimatn hurts people of fah, too, ” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for gay Catholics, said a statement. McCoy for The New York TimGay and transgenr rights anizatns on Friday nmned the Supreme Court lg backg a Colorado webse signer’s bid to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, llg the cisn a dangero backslidg on L.
ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory. The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage.
A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers.