LGBTQ rights: Five years after gay marriage lg, battl ntue

Contents:

• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI
• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• 'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA JOS MILLNS CELEBRATN AS SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT
• U.S. SUPREME COURT ASKED TO KEEP LANDMARK GAY-MARRIAGE TRIAL VIO SEALED
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged. As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.

US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI

We're here to help wh life's everyday qutnsSame-sex upl and adoptnIn 2003, Massachetts beme the first state to allow same-sex upl to adopt children, acrdg to the Boston Globe — but the journey to natnal adoptn equaly was far om 2016, a Feral District Court void a law Mississippi which prevented gay upl om adoptg children, acrdg to the Washgton Post.

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. Media ptn, The morng gay marriage me to the USThe US Supreme Court has led that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the Uned means the 14 stat wh bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

Media ptn, Print Obama: "This lg will strengthen all our muni"However, Christian nservativ nmned the Arkansas ernor and printial ndidate Mike Huckabee lled "an out-of-ntrol act of unnstutnal, judicial tyranny" Kellie Fiedorek, a lawyer for an anti-gay marriage advocy group, said the cisn "ignored the voic of thoands of Amerins" Abbott, the ernor of Texas, a state where marriag licenc will now be issued to same-sex upl, said the jtic "have imposed on the entire untry their personal views on an issue that the Constutn and the Court's prev cisns rerve to the people of the stat" ptn, Emotn of wners and losers outsi Supreme CourtAt the scene - Pl Blake, BBC NewsLoud cheers epted outsi the urt after the lg was announced, and there were tears, hugs, and cheers of "USA USA USA! "It's my hope that gay marriage will soon be a thg of the past, and om this day forward will simply be 'marriage, '" an emotnal Mr Obergefell said outsi the source, APImage ptn, Coupl some parts of Texas were able to get marriedStat affected: Alabama, Arkansas, Geia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, most of Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oh, South Dakota, Tennsee and first state to allow same-sex marriage was Massachetts, which granted the right 2004. “The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch.

Hodg over whether or not gay marriage is a right guaranteed by the US Constutn, and whether or not gay marriag performed stat where has been legalized mt be regnized stat which ban the practice.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

The briefs filed support of gay marriage clud one by 370 small and large bs, one by 300 Republin officeholrs and activists, and one filed by a group of former high-rankg civilian Defense Department personnel. Marriage did not e about as a rult of a polil movement, disvery, disease, war, relig doctre, or any other movg force of world history—and certaly not as a rult of a prehistoric cisn to exclu gays and lbians. 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.

Sce then, the hight feral urt the untry has weighed on about a dozen other LGBTQ rights-related s, which have had powerful impacts on the gay rights movement and the liv of LGBTQ Supreme Court's First Gay Rights CaseSCOTUS's first gay rights se foced on the First Amendment—specifilly, how the rights of ee speech and prs apply to homosexual ntent.

'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA JOS MILLNS CELEBRATN AS SUPREME COURT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT

Sundowner Offshore Servic, Inc., SCOTUS led that same-sex harassment is vered unr Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex, race, lor, natnal orig and Boy Suts Can Exclu Gay IndividualsIn Boy Suts of Ameri v. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn (2018), SCOTUS sid wh the Masterpiece Cakhop—which refed to make a weddg ke for a gay weddg—on the grounds that the missn didn't employ relig ntraly when evaluated the discrimatn se agast the bakery. Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn—on whether gay and transgenr workers are protected om workplace a surprisg 6-3 cisn that me June 2020, the urt led that LGBTQ workers are protected unr Tle VII (which prevents discrimatn on the basis of sex), and nnot be fired for their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

Wrg for the urt, Jtice Kennedy said gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry: “no unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay, ” he wrote. ”The Supreme Court extend workplace protectns natnwi last week for the LGBTQ muny, lg 6-3 that a landmark civil rights law barrg sex discrimatn the workplace appli to gay, lbian and transgenr the urt's majory, led by nservative Associate Jtice Neil Gorsuch, did not close the door on relig exemptns, sayg "other employers other s may raise ee exercise arguments that mer reful nsiratn.

"'The air was electric'The high urt's 5-4 cisn that stat nnot ny marriage rights to gay men and lbians was hand down on June 26 – the same date as earlier landmark LGBTQ lgs agast state sodomy laws 2003 and the feral Defense of Marriage Act 2013.

U.S. SUPREME COURT ASKED TO KEEP LANDMARK GAY-MARRIAGE TRIAL VIO SEALED

"Lookg back, the victory is equally gratifyg to those like Evan Wolfson, founr of the Freedom to Marry mpaign; Jam Esseks, director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr & HIV Project; Roberta Kaplan, who reprented Edie Wdsor of New York the 2013 se that forced the feral ernment to regnize same-sex marriage; and Mary Bonto, the natn's leadg LGBTQ rights lawyer, who won both the Massachetts se 2003 and the Supreme Court se 2015. Supreme Court lg givg gay people the right to marry all 50 stat is vditn of the belief that "ordary people n do extraordary thgs" and has "ma our unn a ltle more perfect, " Print Barack Obama said urt led that allowg stat to ny gay people the right to marry is a vlatn of the 14th the cisnPolicians reactSame sex marriage laws around the worldCelebri react to same-sex marriage cisnIn a 5-4 cisn released Friday, the urt led that the amendment oblig stat to license marriag between people of the same sex and to regnize marriag lawfully performed outsi of state.

""When all Amerins are treated equal, we are all more ee, " he said om the Whe Hoe Rose praised the perseverance of those who have fought for gay rights and marriage equaly for s "and slowly ma an entire untry realize that love is love.

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

"Now, everyone n do this, " he same-sex upl livg  stat where gay marriage had been banned head immediately to unty clerks' offic to get marriage licenc as state officials issued statements sayg they would rpect the lg. '"The Whe Hoe donned rabow lours, a symbol of the gay rights movement, on s Twter and home page celebratn of the s lg, the Supreme Court said the "long history of disapproval of their relatnships" and the nial of the right to marry has done a "grave and ntug harm" to same-sex Locke, 24, left, and her partner, Tiffany Brosh, 26, of Pearl, Miss., applied for a marriage licence at the Hds County Circu Clerk's office Jackson, Miss., moments after the U. "People are celebratg outsi the Supreme Court, this pair me om Florida to be here <a href=">#CBC</a> <a href="></a>&mdash;@fzpatrick_mKennedy, a nservative appoted by Republin Print Ronald Reagan  1988 who often sts the cidg vote  close s, has thored all four of the urt's major gay rights lgs, wh the first g 1996.