Nearly five years to his SCOTUS tenure, Colorado’s Neil Gorsuch has tablished himself as a morn textualist the mo of Anton Slia. He’s also bee somethg of a nservative wild rd. Will that unpredictabily extend to gay rights?
Contents:
- WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
- SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
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While “policy arguments” to amend the law “are very weighty, Kavangh wrote, and while he agreed that “gay and lbian Amerins nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth” he uld not si wh Gorsuch’s terpretatn.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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In orr to unrstand why Gorsuch’s statements are potentially problematic for the future of same-sex marriage, we first have to unrstand the nnectn between the Constutn’s protectn of that right and the legal doctre that paved the way for —the ia that the Constutn protects dividual choice matters of timacy for gay and straight people alike.
NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
” Jtice Slia raised much the same qutn Lawrence, ntendg that “State laws agast bigamy, gay marriage, adult ct, prostutn, masturbatn, adultery, fornitn, btialy, and obsceny” are all at risk if we take serly what Jtice Slia rid as Casey’s “famed sweet-mystery-of-life passage. Part of what is ncerng here is the nflatn of gay marriage, which is central to the fay life of gay and lbian people, and practic like btialy, which should be prohibed.
Given his cricism of personal tonomy protectns and his votn of Slia’s dissent Lawrence, he should also be asked whether he would overturn the Lawrence cisn, a move that uld eventually open the door to new laws agast gay sex. Gorsuch’s affy wh the views of his adviser Fnis on natural law, his approvg catn of Slia’s views on gay marriage, and his skepticism of the Court’s jurispnce on the right to chose matters of personal timacy all suggt that he might vote to reverse the cisn protectg same-sex marriage.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
Defenrs of gay rights have reason to worry that he would roll back the clock on this important issue, and senators should e the upg nfirmatn heargs to fd out om Gorsuch exactly where he stands. Rights lgs the urt’s history, protectg gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn and nfoundg those who thought he would be a reliable nservative on those issu.
SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
Jtice Gorsuch led a 6-to-3 majory clarg that gay and transgenr workers are protected by Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibs discrimatn based on race, relign, natnal orig and sex. ”His ncln: “An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. Hodg, the 2015 se that tablished a nstutnal right to same-sex Jtice Kennedy retired 2018, gay rights advot said they feared that the urt was ls likely to support their e.
Instead he wrote an opn that was immediately hailed by gay and transgenr rights groups as a landmark his opn, Jtice Gorsuch employed a fundamentally nservative prciple — a leral readg of the words of a statute — to reach a cisn that ntrasts sharply wh the nclns of the other nservative jtic on the a dissent, Jtice Samuel A.