I Was Part of 303 Creative's Case. I Back Gay Marriage—but SCOTUS Is Right

Contents:

• SCOTUS WILL RULE ON GAY MARRIAGE THIS TERM
• WHO WILL FIGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE AT SCOTUS?
• WHERE WILL SCOTUS FALL ON GAY MARRIAGE?
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• HOW THE SUPREME COURT ULD SURPRISE EVERYBODY ON GAY MARRIAGE AND PLEASE NOBODY
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• COMMEMORATG THE SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE CISN 5 YEARS LATER
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

SCOTUS WILL RULE ON GAY MARRIAGE THIS TERM

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.

”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang. ”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor.

WHO WILL FIGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE AT SCOTUS?

Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs.

WHERE WILL SCOTUS FALL ON GAY MARRIAGE?

The Supreme Court said Friday that will take on four s challengg gay-marriage bans this term, and will explicly tackle the qutn of whether stat are nstutnally obligated to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl (as well as whether stat are required to regnize gay marriag performed elsewhere).

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.

HOW THE SUPREME COURT ULD SURPRISE EVERYBODY ON GAY MARRIAGE AND PLEASE NOBODY

Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans. As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.

The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns. Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law.

But there’s still one mystery headg to next month’s historic gay marriage se at the Supreme Court: Who will get to argue before the jtic that same sex marriage should be legal across the natn?

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

Some longtime gay rights advot were nervo a few years ago when opponents of California’s Prop 8 chose to ph their se to the Supreme Court. Almost every state that has legalized gay marriage has seen peacefully and uneventfully implemented.

Even eply culturally nservative stat like Utah and Wt Virgia have now been allowg gay upl to marry for months, wh ltle drama. There haven’t been mass protts the streets; fact, every state that has legalized gay marriage has seen a subsequent uptick public support for . … Acrdg to last week’sWashgton Post/ABC News natnwi poll, gay marriage is supported by 64 percent of people stat where is legal, and 54 percent stat where is not.

COMMEMORATG THE SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE CISN 5 YEARS LATER

Even many who don’t support gay marriage seem to have accepted : Nearly three-quarters of Amerins nsir the legalizatn of gay marriage evable.

It immediately led to scen of jubilatn om ast to ast, as mpaigners, policians and everyday people – gay, straight and -between – hailed “a victory of love” lg, which Jtice Anthony Kennedy st the cidg vote, means the number of stat where gay marriage is legal will rise – albe after some stallg – om 37 to 50. Photograph: Evan Golub/Demotix/CorbisThe crowd outsi the urt – ed, across the untry – epted joy after the lg was hand down, wh many longtime mpaigners cryg tears of joy and embracg their of “Love has won” reverberated among the hundreds gathered below the urt steps and across the street outsi the US Capol, as rabow flags tertwed wh the Amerin the crowd was California reprentative Mark Takano, an openly gay member of Congrs who scribed beg at the scene as both “profound and poted”. “The arc of history is que clear that the stggle for LGBT equaly is part of our civil rights, ” Takano sex marriage discrimatnJudd Proctor, a 65-year-old rint of Silver Sprg, Maryland, said he never thought he would live to see the day that gay marriage would be a nstutnal right.

Photograph: Eric Gay/APRandy Johnson, a platiff one of the ncurrent s brought om Kentucky before the urt wh his partner Pl Campn, said he still had goosebumps, hours after their 20-year-old son had texted them two words: “We won. Kathie DeNobriga, the mayor of Atlanta suburb Pe Lake who married her long-term partner out of state last year as one of the few openly gay policians the Amerin south, lled the urt lg “a victory of love opposn to fear”.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

”Legal same-sex weddgs were takg place for the first time on Friday across Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Tennsee, even as the attorneys general Texas and Mississippi said marriag uld not take place attorney general Ken Paxton issued a long statement suggtg he would attempt to fight the legalisatn of gay marriage by assertg the “relig liberti” of clerks and officials. He subsequently clarified that his office “is certaly not standg the way of the supreme urt’s cisn” gay upl waed at the state val rerds office New Orleans to get their marriage licens.

”But the five jtic the majory argued that privg them of marriage equaly “serve[d] to disrpect and subordate” gay and lbian people.

”The natn’s hight tribunal last weighed marriage equaly 2012, wh challeng to California’s effective ban on same-sex marriag, known as Proposn 8, and a key provisn of the feral Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) jtic then led favor of marriage equaly proponents, but ducked the qutn of whether gay marriage was a nstutnal right. “It is hard for me to see now that any urt, anywhere, state or feral, uld possibly tolerate discrimatn agast gay people on any basis. 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.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

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.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori. The Supreme Court is expected to ci on the legaly of gay marriage any day now, and 's possible the lg will surprise everybody and please nobody. Many nstutnal scholars predict the high urt will fd gay-marriage bans unnstutnal and effectively legalize gay marriage throughout the US.

A lg like that would likely pel stat to pass laws allowg "civil unns" for gays — as Vermont did 2000, when granted gay upl the benefs of marriage whout llg their unn marriage.

That would disappot many gay-marriage advot, many of whom regard civil unns as separate and unequal to marriage. One other surprise lg om the urt uld be one which fds stat mt regnize gay marriag granted other stat but don't have to grant their own gay marriag.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

While Kennedy has nsistently led for gay rights, he has exprsed hatn about fully grantg gay marriage. Durg the gay marriage arguments April, Kennedy mented that the fn of marriage has "been wh for lennia" and qutned whether the high urt should upend, Wkler prevly told Bs Insir that Kennedy don't always favor stat' rights over dividual rights. 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.

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

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.

Same-sex upl won the right to marry natnwi Friday as a divid Supreme Court hand a crowng victory to the gay rights movement, settg off a jubilant s of long-layed weddgs stat where they had been forbidn. direct, personal stake our basic charter, ” Kennedy wrote his fourth major opn support of gay rights sce 1996.