From gay marriage to genr inty, a timele of the legal battl that have shaped L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
Contents:
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
- CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * justice gay *
The negotiatns those s, not prevly reported, offer a glimpse to tra-offs among jtic, monstrate the chief’s soft power of persuasn and show that the urt’s sentiment on gay rights issu n be both ght and evolvg. Meanwhile, Kennedy would vote for the urt to hear the appeal of the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Colorado, who’d been sanctned for refg to bake a weddg ke for two gay men.
The acceptance of an appeal om a baker who had refed to create a ke for a gay uple based on relig objectns uld easily have led to a public perceptn of new Supreme Court hostily toward gay rights. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn was brought by a baker, Jack Phillips, who had been sanctned unr Colorado law for refg to create a ke for two gay men celebratg their marriage.
GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
Five years after the US Supreme Court clared a fundamental right for same-sex upl to marry, the jtic produced another landmark for the gay rights movement by lg that feral anti-bias law vers lns of gay, lbian and transgenr workers. * justice gay *
Phillips argued that beg forced to provi a weddg ke to a gay uple vlated his nstutnal rights to the ee exercise of relign and ee speech. He’d prevly told lleagu that he was skeptil of relig exemptns for retailers who would ny servic to gay people.
“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy wrote, reflectg his ntued tentativens. Gsburg and Sotomayor were the only dissenters, homg on the bias the gay men faced: “What matters, ” Gsburg wrote, “is that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual uple. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu.
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn. * justice gay *
Five years after the US Supreme Court clared a fundamental right for same-sex upl to marry, the jtic produced another landmark for the gay rights movement by lg that feral anti-bias law vers lns of gay, lbian and transgenr workers. The lg jos the annals of high urt cisns over the last quarter century that have helped drive gay progrs on myriad onts, cludg the 2003 cisn strikg down statut that crimalized sodomy and a 2013 actn that validated a feral law that nied married same-sex upl the Social Secury and other benefs given oppose-sex married upl. Equally signifint, the cisn was joed by Chief Jtice John Roberts, who had never signed an opn endorsg gay rights.
Gorsuch said the “msage” of the law is “simple and momento: An dividual’s homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns.
That’s bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. More than 7 ln people the US intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to the Williams Instute at UCLA. In his 15 years as chief jtice, Roberts’ dissent the 2015 gay marriage se marked his first and only oral dissent om the bench.
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Jtice Brett Kavangh, dissentg, tried to emphasize that he was not agast gay rights and noted the historic nature of the cisn. “This Court has prevly stated, and I fully agree, that gay and lbian Amerins ‘nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth. The Tmp admistratn had argued agast Monday’s oute, and the lg may have seemed improbable after the 2018 retirement of Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who had been the thor of all gay rights opns datg to 1996 and was often the cidg vote on a bench riven on the cultural dilemma.
They were brought on behalf of two gay men fired om their jobs, as a skydivg stctor and a child welfare servic ordator, and on behalf of a transgenr woman who lost her posn as a funeral home director.
The Supreme Court says you n’t be fired for beg gay or transgenr. * justice gay *
He acknowledged that Congrs likely would not have anticipated Monday’s rult when passed the law 1964, but he said the prohibn on discrimatn “bee of sex” necsarily vers people who face bias bee of they are gay, lbian or transgenr.
We do not hate to regnize today a necsary nsequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law.
The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence.