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Contents:
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- JOHN ROBERTS’S FULL-THROATED GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT: CONSTUTN ‘HAD NOTHG TO DO WH ’
- SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE: JOHN ROBERTS’ DISSENT OBERGEFELL IS HEARTLS.
- CHIEF JTICE ROBERTS ON GAY-MARRIAGE LG: 'JT WHO DO WE THK WE ARE?'
- JOHN ROBERTS’ GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT IS WRONG ABOUT POLYGAMY—AND THE CONSTUTN
- WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- US SUPREME URT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE – READ THE DISSENTG OPNS
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
What you need to know about the gay rights movement. Texas unti refe marriage license for gay upl. Roberts potedly attacked the majory’s opn that relied on the due procs clse that Kennedy said giv gays and lbians a fundamental right to marry.
Hodg landmark lg, to steer the urt’s oute a pair of key gay rights disput. 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.
JOHN ROBERTS’S FULL-THROATED GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT: CONSTUTN ‘HAD NOTHG TO DO WH ’
The backstory of two gay rights s handled tanm 2017 has new salience today. Kennedy had been the voice of the urt’s progrsive gay rights lgs datg to 1996. 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.
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.
SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE: JOHN ROBERTS’ DISSENT OBERGEFELL IS HEARTLS.
“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.
CHIEF JTICE ROBERTS ON GAY-MARRIAGE LG: 'JT WHO DO WE THK WE ARE?'
Constutn provis same-sex upl the right to marry, handg a historic triumph to the Amerin gay rights movement. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Brendan Mcrmid/Rters)Roberts's unequivol disagreement is somewhat startlg, pecially as the nservative-leang jtice seemed to be searchg for a middle ground jt a few months ago durg oral arguments on the se, reported The Washgton Post's Robert chief jtice has a particular obligatn "to try to achieve nsens, " Roberts has Roberts didn't agree wh the Supreme Court's 2013 cisn to expand feral rights to legally married gay upl.
"The Supreme Court's gay marriage cisn explaed 60 sends. Supreme Court gay marriage: John Roberts’ dissent Obergefell is heartls.
No more than biracial marriage do gay marriage harm people who don’t have or want to have such a marriage. Unls n be shown that same-sex marriage harms people who are not gay (or who are gay but don’t want to marry), there is no pellg reason for state terventn, and specifilly for banng same-sex marriage.
JOHN ROBERTS’ GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT IS WRONG ABOUT POLYGAMY—AND THE CONSTUTN
Gay upl and the children (mostly straight) that they adopt (or that one of them may have given birth to and the other adopts) rive substantial benefs, both enomic and psychologil, om marriage.
Efforts to ny them those benefs by forbiddg same-sex marriage nfer no offsettg social benefs— fact no offsettg benefs at all beyond gratifyg feelgs of hostily toward gays and lbians, feelgs that feed such assertns as that heterosexual marriage is “grad” by allowg same-sex upl to “annex” the word marriage to their habatn. But later his opn the chief jtice remembers polygamy and suggts that if gay marriage is allowed, so mt be polygamy. The chief jtice worri that the majory opn has mounted “asslts on the character of fairmd people” who oppose same-sex marriage, by remarkg that they impose “ ‘[d]ignary wounds’ upon their gay and lbian neighbors.
There is of urse a long history of persecutn of gay people, a history punctuated by such nam as Osr Wil, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Alan Turg. Until que recently, many Amerin gays and lbians took great pas to nceal their homosexualy orr to avoid discrimatn. Prohibg gay marriage is discrimatn.
WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
Stat that forbid same-sex marriage do not do so an effort to enurage gays and lbians to marry people of the oppose sex and thereby procreate.
There is no greater reason to forbid gay marriage, which is actually good for children by makg the children adopted by gay upl (and there are a great many such children), better off emotnally and fislly.
Why would straight people marry ls and procreate ls jt bee gay people also marry and raise adopted children, who, but for adoptn, would languish foster hom? See more of Slate’s verage of the Supreme Court gay marriage lg. Supreme Court Chief Jtice John Roberts strsed his view that the urt's 5-4 lg legalizg gay marriage natnwi lacked a nstutnal basis, wrg one of the urt's four dissents Friday.
US SUPREME URT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE – READ THE DISSENTG OPNS
He sets out the moral toll exacted by s of discrimatn agast gay and lbian people and their children. He appreciat that accs to marriage as now exists is as important and relevant to gay and lbian upl as is to straight upl.
And bee the olr pattern of genr-differentiated rol mak a lot ls sense same-sex marriag, the extensn of marriage to gays entrench s egalarian aspect.
It is why patriarchal societi spise gay rights and know nothg of same-sex marriage. (An tertg si note: Jtice Kennedy, a 1988 Reagan nomee, has thored all four of the major SCOTUS s on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights: Romer v.