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.

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

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. 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.

" 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.

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

" 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.

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. 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. 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.

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

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. The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers 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.

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

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Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L.

LIVE UPDAT: GAY MARRIAGE AT THE SUPREME COURT

McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds.

Smh and her lawyers have emphasized that her objectn is not to workg wh same-sex upl or gay dividuals, but to signg webs for gay weddgs.

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

Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms. ” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah. “Broad exemptns to allow relig-based discrimatn hurts people of fah, too, ” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for gay Catholics, said a statement.