Groups opposed to gay rights rake lns as stat bate anti-LGBTQ bills

Contents:

• U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC GROUP THAT SHUNNED GAY FOSTER PARENTS
• OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• CHURCH THAT REFE TO PERFORM GAY ‘MARRIAG’ MAY LOSE SURANCE VERAGE
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC AGENCY CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE
• CHURCH CHANGG BYLAWS AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LG
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC GROUP THAT SHUNNED GAY FOSTER PARENTS

District Judge Petre Tucker 2018 also led agast the of the 50 stat currently allow private agenci to refe to place children wh same-sex upl, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a group backg gay Supreme Court recent years has sent mixed msag on the nflict between LGBT and relig backed gay rights a seri of landmark lgs cludg a 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi and a 2020 lg that a feral law barrg workplace discrimatn protects gay and transgenr also bolstered relig rights several cisns cludg a 2014 lg that let owners of bs raise relig objectns agast the same-sex uple ever sought certifitn as a foster parent om Catholic Social Servic. In addn to same-sex upl, also will not certify unmarried upl as foster parents, but do not object to certifyg dividual gay people. One-fifth of Uned Methodist ngregatns the Uned Stat have received permissn to leave the nomatn over disagreements over same-sex marriage and gay preachers.

This year alone, 4, 172 ngregatns left, acrdg to an unofficial tally by Uned Methodist News the church forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” many church and nferenc fy those bans.

Conservativ May 2022 officially lnched a new Global Methodist Church, where they plan to mata and enforce bans on thgs that clu gay misters and same-sex weddgs.

OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS

Recent shifts the church2019: A vote by a General Conference was the latt of several recent s that rerced the church’s ban on gay clergy and marriage. Many wh the nomatn are seekg to reverse bans on the ordatn of gay and lbian misters and officiatns of gay weddgs. LGBTQ+ rponseWhile some partg church allow LGBTQ+ members, ’s an unacceptable double standard when they let LGBTQ+ people attend their servic but refe to marry them, said Sonja Feist, print of the Topeka chapter of Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and told The Capal-Journal she didn't see how a church that bans same-sex marriage n claim to be welg to gay people.

The Equaly Act aims to improve the liv of gay and transgenr Amerins by banng many of the forms of discrimatn they face.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

Bs would need to ensure that polici erng ctomer teractns, bathroom e or drs do not sgle out gay or transgenr people for mistreatment. Methodist church doctre historilly matas that homosexualy is "patible wh Christian teachg” and prohibs the church participatn same-sex Church, like other Methodist church, adhere to a "Book of Disciple.

Wrg for the majory, Jtice Neil Gorsuch noted, “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. The Court’s lg volved three separate s: one platiff who worked as a child welfare advote before beg fired for jog a gay recreatnal softball league; a send platiff who worked as a skydivg stctor New York before beg fired bee he was gay; and a third platiff, a transgenr woman who was fired om her job as a funeral home director Garn Cy, Michigan.

In today’s heightened culture war, the ffers of the anti-gay movement are overflowg.

CHURCH THAT REFE TO PERFORM GAY ‘MARRIAG’ MAY LOSE SURANCE VERAGE

The multiln-dollar war cht has bolstered a movement that jt a few years ago appeared to be losg ground Ameri’s slong culture war around lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights. “Many of those, while not specifilly tied to a church, are rooted the nservative Christian, biblil sense of human sexualy, ” said Stt McCoy, the terim puty legal director for LGBTQ rights and special ligatn for the SPLC and the SPLC Actn Fund, the group’s polil actn simply holdg a relig belief that views homosexualy or transgenr inty as sful do not tomatilly land a church or an anizatn on the SPLC’s list of hate groups. 'The hard re of the anti-gay movement' When the SPLC began trackg anti-LGBTQ hate the early 2010s, the anizatn noted that “a small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement.

C., that, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexual nduct is harmful to the persons who engage ” and “is also harmful to society at large” — jumped om over $12 ln to more than $23 ln. “The groups that are opposed to LGBTQ equaly did their msage ttg and found that attackg gay people is no longer the broadly popular culture war totem that they ed the ’90s, ” Gberg said. ”The Parental Rights Edutn bill — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s crics — which is on Florida Gov.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

"Ambridge also took issue wh the church's cisn to end their ntract al after the pany hired an openly gay events ordator as part of their efforts to "rtore s image wh s clientele and s relatnship wh the LGBTO muny. Ambridge's plat agast Holy Rosary months after the Oregon Court of Appeals led agast a Christian uple who were sued for $135, 000 for refg to make a gay weddg ke due to their relig and Melissa Kle, former owners of Sweet Cak by Melissa, lost their appeal last December when the urt cid that their effort to get an exemptn was "a special license for discrimatn.

“My is gay and he got married years ago, so I looked to the bill.

SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC AGENCY CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE

Wa, elimatg nstutnal right to abortnThe Guardian, June 24, Contraceptn, gay marriage: Clarence Thomas signals new targets for supreme urtSupreme Court, June 26, 2015, Obergefell v HodgUSA TODAY, Nov. The se follows the Supreme Court's 2018 lg favor of a Christian Denver-area baker who refed on relig grounds to make a weddg ke for a gay 's se giv the jtic an opportuny to answer a qutn that has been raised other disput cludg the baker se but never fively rolved: n people refe service to ctomers vlatn of public acmodatn laws based on the ia that fulfillg a creative act such as signg a webse or bakg a ke is a form of ee speech unr the U. Smh had asked the urt to overturn s important 1990 lg that limed the abily of people to ce their relig beliefs seekg exemptns om laws that apply to ON GAY MARRIAGESmh ns a web sign bs lled 303 Creative that she wants to operate acrdance wh her Christian fah.

CHURCH CHANGG BYLAWS AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LG

She believ that marriage should be limed to oppose-sex upl, a view shared by many nservative addg weddg webs to the servic she offered ctomers, Smh sued Colorado's civil rights missn and other officials 2016 bee of her ncern she would be punished unr the anti-discrimatn 's lawyers have said that any state actn punishg her for refg to sign webs for gay weddgs vlat her right to relig exprsn and her ee speech rights. Circu Court of Appeals a July 2021 jtic are set to hear oral arguments and ci the se the Supreme Court's next term, which begs October and ends June Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnwi 2015 and 2020 expand protectns for LGBT workers unr feral law.

The latt rearch on relign and LGBTQ rights shows that, the aftermath of same-sex marriage legalizatn, many people of fah have grown more terted fdg a way to protect both gay upl and relig muni.

Addnally, surveys taken over a longer time perd show that people of fah are more likely today than the past to believe their church thks homosexual activy is OK. “The perceived acceptabily of ‘homosexual behavrs’ has changed radilly, ” acrdg to new rearch om Pl A. In 2007, 63% of evangelil Christians assumed that their hoe of worship forbid homosexual behavrs.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

“There’s been tkerg around the edg” of nomatnal l, but no major shifts teachgs on homosexualy and same-sex marriage, he biggt velopments volved nmnatns of homosexual behavr, Djupe said. Rather than stemmg om formal policy shifts, people’s assumptn that their church has bee more acceptg of homosexual activy is likely related to fah lears’ growg hancy to discs the topic, Djupe said. “Bee (gay marriage) has bee such a hot-button topic and public opn about as changed so much, nflict-averse clergy are probably leavg some of their opns about unspoken, ” he said.

And many gay rights activists rema nvced that relig lears don’t have their bt terts at heart. For example, ’s still unclear whether small bs owners who oppose gay marriage for relig reasons should be required to serve LGBTQ ctomers, spe the fact that the Supreme Court heard a se on the issue 2017. In 2016, 62% of whe male Prottants, 61% of whe Catholics, 52% of members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and 72% of Jews opposed allowg bs owners to refe service to gay upl.

Durg the past five years, a diverse aln of anizatns have been workg together to craft legislatn that would expand protectns for people of fah who oppose same-sex marriage and members of the gay muny at the same time. “We want to do the right thg by gay rights, but we thk you have to do the right thg by relig eedom, too, ” said Stanley Carlson-Thi, the founr and senr director of the Instutnal Relig Freedom Alliance, to the Deret News December 2019 after the u of the aln’s labor, the Fairns for All Act, was troduced Congrs. The Supreme Court seems to share this approach to gay and relig rights.