Gay rights groups sue Florida Gov. DeSantis over so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' law : NPR

Contents:

• LGBTQ GROUPS SUE FLORIDA OVER THE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• MAN WHO WON GAY RIGHTS SE AT SUPREME COURT AGRE TO SETTLEMENT
• 'I HOPE THIS LAW IS OBLERATED.' PLATIFFS THE FIRST LAWSU CHALLENGG 'DON'T SAY GAY' FLORIDA SPEAK OUT
• WEB DIGNER SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS RULG CED CLIENT WHO DENI MAKG WEDDG SE REQUT
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• JUDGE AGA TOSS CHALLENGE TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL
• U.S. SUPREME COURT TAK UP COLORADO SE OF BS SEEKG TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY UPL
• GAY MAN'S PAY SLASHED SO HE'D BE ON PAR WH 'THE OTHER FEMAL THE OFFICE,' LAWSU CLAIMS
• FACT CHECK: EMAILS SHOW ONE OF DESANTIS’ STORI BACKG THE RATNALE FOR SO-LLED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW DIDN’T HAPPEN AS THE ERNOR SAYS

LGBTQ GROUPS SUE FLORIDA OVER THE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

Ron DeSantis displays the signed Parental Rights Edutn, the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill, flanked by elementary school stunts durg a news nference on Monday at Classil Preparatory school Shady Hills, Fla.

— Gay rights advot sued Florida Gov. Crics ll the "Don't Say Gay" law and argue that s te tent is to margalize LGBTQ people and their fai.

MAN WHO WON GAY RIGHTS SE AT SUPREME COURT AGRE TO SETTLEMENT

The ntroversial law, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by s opponents, is set to take effect July. The platiffs Thursday’s lawsu clu Equaly Florida, an LGBTQ advocy anizatn; Fay Equaly, a New York-based nonprof; a 17-year-old sophomore Palmetto, Florida, who intifi as gay; an 18-year-old senr Osprey, Florida, who intifi as gay; the parent of a transgenr fifth-grar Florida; three same-sex upl livg Florida wh young children; and a middle-school public teacher Grand Ridge, Florida. Supreme Court lg that said civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om discrimatn Clayton County Board of Commissners this week approved an $825, 000 settlement for Gerald Lynn Bostock, his lawyer Ed Buckley said Friday.

Bostock had sued the unty, which ss jt south of Atlanta, sayg he was fired 2013 bee he is gay.

Bostock asserted a 2016 lawsu that he was fired om his job as a urt child welfare servic ordator bee he’s gay. His participatn a gay softball league and his sexual orientatn were openly cricized by people wh cisn-makg power at his job, and he was fired several months after jog the league, the lawsu unty argued his dismissal was based on an d of funds he managed.

'I HOPE THIS LAW IS OBLERATED.' PLATIFFS THE FIRST LAWSU CHALLENGG 'DON'T SAY GAY' FLORIDA SPEAK OUT

So they have been alarmed, Casar says, to watch the swift advancement of Florida Hoe Bill 1557—lled the “Parental Rights Edutn Act” by supporters and the “Don’t Say Gay” law by crics—through the Florida legislature. How the lawsu challeng ‘Don’t Say Gay’ LGBTQ parents and alli Florida worry that unr the new law, children won’t feel as fortable tellg their class about their fay or their own inty as Casar and Feberg’s kid did last year. ” LGBTQ advot have acced DeSantis of supportg the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill to rally the GOP base ahead of the midterm electns and shore up support for his own possible printial n.

Will Larks, the print of Wter Park High School’s Queer Stunt Unn Wter Park, Fla., says that after ‘Don’t Say Gay’ beme law, the group’s primary foc beme gettg out the vote e November. They say their kid rpond: “I don’t re, I’m gog to say gay anyways. But as the se advanced, was referenced by her attorneys when lawyers for the state of Colorado prsed Smh on whether she had sufficient grounds to revelatn distracts om Smh’s victory at a time when she might have been baskg her w, which is wily nsired a setback for gay named Stewart — and clud a webse service requt om him, listg his phone number and email addrs 2017 urt documents.

Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple’s weddg ke, cg his Christian fah. A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be.

WEB DIGNER SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS RULG CED CLIENT WHO DENI MAKG WEDDG SE REQUT

Supreme Court led uld refe to make a weddg webse for gay upl had ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh her.

Smh — who did not plan to start creatg weddg webs until her se was rolved — would first have to get a requt om a gay uple and refe, triggerg a possible plat agast her, the state ’s lawyers mataed that she didn’t have to be punished for vlatg the law before challengg . Supreme Court victory over his refal to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on Thursday lost his appeal of a lg a separate se that he vlated a state anti-discrimatn law by not makg a ke to celebrate a genr Colorado Court of Appeals agreed wh a trial judge that Masterpiece Cakhop and the bakery's owner, Jack Phillips, vlated Autumn Srda's rights by nyg her service bee of her inty as a transgenr woman. Supreme Court 2017 agreed to hear Phillips’ challenge to the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn's ncln he discrimated agast a gay uple for whom he had refed to make a weddg Supreme Court 2018 led Phillips' favor but on narrow grounds that stopped short of creatg a ee speech exemptn to anti-discrimatn laws, fdg the missn was hostile toward Phillips’ Christian 6-3 nservative majory urt December heard arguments a siar se volvg Alliance Defendg Freedom client Lorie Smh, a Christian web signer who argu she has a right to refe to provi servic for same-sex se is Srda v.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

Supreme Court leans toward web signer wh anti-gay marriage stanceColorado baker se of Supreme Court su state over 'persecutn'U. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn.

Unsurprisgly, Mchell oppos gay rights and said a Supreme Court brief that Obergefell v. But the hight urt the land is not cidg the big issue the se – whether a bs n refe to serve gay and lbian Supreme Court jtic' limed lg Monday turns on what the urt scribed as anti-relig bias on the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn when led agast baker Jack Phillips. (AP) — For the send time more than a month, a lawsu challengg Florida’s so-lled “don’t say gay” legislatn rtrictg teachg on genr inty and sexual orientatn schools has been dismissed by a feral judge.

A report released Augt by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the natn’s largt LGBTQ advocy groups, and the Center for Counterg Digal Hate said that hateful referenc to gays, lbians and other LGBTQ people surged onle after Florida’s Republin-domated legislature passed the bill. WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led on Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl. One of the urt’s liberal jtic wrote a dissent that the cisn’s effect is to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat” and that the cisn opens the door to other discrimatn.

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

The cisn is also a retreat on gay rights for the urt. For nearly three s, the urt has expand the rights of LGBTQ people, most notably givg same-sex upl the right to marry 2015 and announcg five years later a cisn wrten by Gorsuch that a landmark civil rights law also protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om employment the latt cisn, however, Gorsuch said that a lg agast Smh would allow the ernment “to force all manner of artists, speechwrers, and others whose servic volve speech to speak what they do not believe on pa of penalty. ” For example, a gay webse signer uld be forced to sign webs for an anizatn that advot agast same-sex marriage, he wrote.

”Sotomayor referenced the urt’s history wh the issue of gay rights her dissent, wrg: “The LGBT rights movement has ma historic stris, and I am proud of the role this Court has recently played that history. The immediate, symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat, ” she wrote at another as has expand gay rights, however, the urt has been reful to say those wh differg relig views need to be rpected.

The belief that marriage n only be between one man and one woman is an ia that “long has been held — and ntu to be held — good fah by reasonable and scere people here and throughout the world, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote the urt’s gay marriage cisn.

JUDGE AGA TOSS CHALLENGE TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe se may settle a qutn left open 2018: how to rencile claims of relig liberty wh laws barrg discrimatn based on sexual Kirkpatrick for The New York TimWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Tuday to hear an appeal om a Colorado web signer who objects to providg servic for same-sex marriag, returng the jtic to a battleground the culture wars ptg claims of relig eedom agast laws prohibg discrimatn on the basis of sexual urt last nsired the clash 2018, when a siar dispute between a Colorado baker and a gay uple failed to yield a five precise qutn the jtic agreed to ci the new se is “whether applyg a public-acmodatn law to pel an artist to speak or stay silent vlat the ee speech clse of the First Amendment. It ncerns Lorie Smh, who owns a webse sign pany that says serv gay ctomers but tends to lim s weddg-related servic to celebratns of heterosexual unns. ”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn.

”Lower urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service, lg that they 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, cg nstutnal protectns for ee speech and relig Smh’s lawyers had also asked the Supreme Court to ci whether the Colorado law vlated her right to the ee exercise of relign and to nsir whether to overle an important precent om 1990, Employment Divisn v. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Jtic Will Revis Free Speech Qutns In Gay Marriage Case.

Unlike the 2018 Masterpiece Cakhop se, which a Lakewood baker was sued after refg to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, this su was filed preemptively by a graphic signer who wants a legal guarantee that she n turn down webse missns for same-sex ceremoni. ” Lamba Legal, a gay rights advocy anizatn, said a statement, the Supreme Court has the opportuny to do what the jtic should have done three and a half years ago the Masterpiece se.

THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL

"The jtic led 6-3 along iologil l favor of Denver-area web signer Lorie Smh, who ced her Christian beliefs agast gay marriage challengg a Colorado anti-discrimatn law.

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

"Sotomayor add, "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. A 2015 cisn legalized gay marriage natnwi.

GAY MAN'S PAY SLASHED SO HE'D BE ON PAR WH 'THE OTHER FEMAL THE OFFICE,' LAWSU CLAIMS

A 2020 lg found that a feral law barrg workplace discrimatn protects gay and transgenr ACCOMMODATIONS LAWSmh, who liv the Denver suburb of Ltleton, is an evangelil Christian who has said she believ marriage is only between a man and a woman. She preemptively sued Colorado's civil rights missn and other state officials 2016 bee she said she feared beg punished for refg to serve gay weddgs unr Colorado's public acmodatns lled Friday's lg a victory for all Amerins, addg, "Colorado n't force me or anyone to say somethg we don't believe.

And so on, " Sotomayor 's cisn followed one 2018 which the jtic led favor of a Denver-area baker who refed based on his Christian views to make a weddg ke for a gay acmodatns laws exist many stat, banng discrimatn areas such as hog, hotels, retail bs, rtrants and tnal stutns. "The ex-employee, Wley Wernecke, says Eventique tried to alienate and gra him after CEO Henry Liron David learned he was gay, said Wernecke's lawyer, Anthony Wernecke.

Consigl“Wley was personally reced by this employer to be a senr producer, and once he learned he was gay, the employer began shuttg him out of the bs, ” Consigl said an email to NBC ’s lawyer, Gena Zairman, nied the allegatns, llg them “basels. “David simply uld not bear the thought that Eventique would ntue to be reprented by a gay man, ” the plat stat, referrg to Wernecke’s Oct.

FACT CHECK: EMAILS SHOW ONE OF DESANTIS’ STORI BACKG THE RATNALE FOR SO-LLED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW DIDN’T HAPPEN AS THE ERNOR SAYS

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly poted to the se of a fay the state’s Leon County to expla the need for a ntroversial new law, dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, that bans schools om teachg about sexual orientatn or genr inty, particularly to young children. The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign.