Live Updat: Gay Marriage at the Supreme Court - ABC News

Contents:

• HOW CONGRS ACHIEVED A HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CAS TWO PAG
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• LIVE UPDAT: GAY MARRIAGE AT THE SUPREME COURT
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

HOW CONGRS ACHIEVED A HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH ON GAY MARRIAGE

Liz Cheney of Wyomg -- a break om her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds wh her parents and sister, who is gay.

GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL

Hoeholds wh same-sex Supreme Court had jt overturned s own lgs on abortn rights, and nservative Jtice Clarence Thomas openly med his ncurrg opn whether the urt's landmark 2015 cisn on gay marriage -- which he said was based on "legal fictn" -- should be next. Tammy Baldw, the first openly gay senator and a longtime LGBTQ rights the Hoe ph through a party-le gay rights bill to send a polil msage ahead of the midterm electns? "This is the first signifint promise between gay rights groups and relig liberty groups, " said Layck, a profsor of nstutnal law at the Universy of Virgia.

Baldw and Sema along wh three Republins: San Colls of Mae, who was known to cross party l; Rob Portman of Oh, who a ago changed his md on same-sex marriage after learng his son was gay; and Thom Tillis of North Carola, who had backed this year's bipartisan package on gun safety. Mike Lee of Utah and Jam Lankford of Oklahoma, who ntend would set a natnal policy on gay marriage that uniquely expos church and anizatns to after the Church of J Christ and several relig liberty scholars publicly signed on, the dozen Senate Republins joed support and guaranteed s the end, both LGBTQ rights groups and relig eedom advot claimed victory -- an achievement Sema noted at a news nference celebratg the bill's passage the Senate. Supreme Court led Friday that gay and lbian upl across the untry have a nstutnal right to 5-4 cisn ps a long and often ntent battle over what many have lled the “fg civil rights challenge of our time.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CAS TWO PAG

Public support for gay marriage has reached a new high, wh 61 percent of rponnts an ABC News/Washgton Post poll two months ago sayg gay and lbian upl should be allowed to legally marry. Ernment extend certa benefs to same-sex four years ago, the Defense Department end s policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” allowg gay and bisexual soldiers to openly serve the ary. "The adjuditory bodi that nsired this se did not act wh relig anim when they led that the florist and her rporatn vlated the Washgton Law Agast Discrimatn by clg to sell weddg flowers to a gay uple, and they did not act wh relig anim when they led that such discrimatn is not privileged or exced by the Uned Stat Constutn or the Washgton Constutn, " the urt wrote.

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

" He says that Prop 8 leav undisturbed expansive domtic partnership laws that provi gays and lbians wh "some of the most prehensive civil rights protectns the natn.

"The unmistakable purpose and effect of Proposn 8, " they wre, "is to stigmatize gay men and lbians -- and them alone -- and enshre California's Constutn that they are unequal to everyone else, that their mted relatnships are eligible for the signatn 'marriage' and that they are unworthy of that most important relatn life. The Court uld strike down Prop 8 on narrower grounds and say, for example, that California uld not give gay upl all the benefs of a robt domtic partnership law, but strip them of the word "marriage.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

" Such a lg uld affect at least six other stat wh siar Court uld also issue an opn specific to California's history wh the gay marriage.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

The Court uld say that California uld not whdraw om gay and lbian people the right to marry -- a right they once had -- whout a ratnal basis for dog so.

LIVE UPDAT: GAY MARRIAGE AT THE SUPREME COURT

Such a lg would apply only to Court uld, of urse, uphold Prop 8, which would allow stat to ntue to pass bans on gay md, there is a real chance this se that the Court will not reach the mers.

He pots out such scty is necsary bee gays and lbians have faced a "signifint history of discrimatn this untry, " and that they have suffered om limed polil power as evinced by the fact that stat have passed iativ banng same-sex marriage.

Lawyers for Wdsor arguments agast DOMA: Wdsor rejects Clement's posn that DOMA is necsary to promote rponsible procreatn, wrg urt briefs: "It is irratnal, fantastil thkg to believe that the feral ernment's cisn to treat married gay upl as unmarried unr feral law will enurage straight upl to marry before havg children.

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

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. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L.