Five years on, LGBT+ upl fear for future of gay marriage | Rters

Contents:

• FIVE YEARS ON, LGBT+ UPL FEAR FOR FUTURE OF GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

FIVE YEARS ON, LGBT+ UPL FEAR FOR FUTURE OF GAY MARRIAGE

VioThe Rpect for Marriage Act, which passed Congrs wh bipartisan support, mandat feral regnn for same-sex and terracial Contreras for The New York TimWASHINGTON — Print Bin signed the Rpect for Marriage Act to law on Tuday, mandatg feral regnn for same-sex marriag and ppg his own personal evolutn toward embracg gay rights over the urse of a four- polil an elaborate signg ceremony on the South Lawn, plete wh mil performanc om Cyndi Lper and Sam Smh, Mr. Bin, who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act as a senator 1996 and wavered on lettg gay men and lbians serve the ary, the signg ceremony was an ditn of how much the print has changed when to champng L.

His views on issu like abortn, gay marriage and sentencg reform — which once put him on the more nservative si of his party’s iologil spectm — now more firmly match posns that have galvanized Democrats and even many Republins over the past several years. His policy choic the Senate reflected those tim, often sidg wh those who proposed rtrictns, or lims, on gay men and lbians.

He supported a measure that rtricted how homosexualy was tght schools, one of many feats for the equaly his 2008 vice-printial bate wh Sarah Pal, Mr. “I do rpect and appreciate that he is someone that n adm that his views were outdated the past and that he has evolved on the subject and is now an outspoken champn and advote, ” said Kelley Robson, the print of Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights anizatn Washgton. -based LGBT+ rights Tmp admistratn also argued agast extendg workplace protectns to LGBT+ people, a challenge nied by the Supreme Court’s historic cisn last week lg that feral law protected gay and trans people om discrimatn at spe this, gay and lbian fai, as well as LGBT+ activists, worry that same-sex marriage uld bee a target.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

”‘SKIM MILK MARRIAGE’While an outright dismissal of same-sex marriage is nsired highly unlikely, legal experts say cisns at state level and the lower urts, many filled wh Tmp-appoted judg, uld ero protectns for gay upl. “That’s a very real fear, ” she the historic 2015 lg, nearly 300, 000 gay and lbian upl have wed, boostg state and lol enomi by an timated $3. Support for same-sex marriage has also creased, wh more than six 10 Amerins favor, acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute (PRRI), agast jt 36% approval remas divid across party l, wh nearly three-quarters of Democrats and two-thirds of pennts favorg same-sex marriage, vers 47% of Republins, acrdg to the PRRI’s the 2020 electn, the Republin Party has adopted the same platform as did for 2016, backg “tradnal marriage and fay, based on marriage between one man and one woman” spe the Supreme Court lg, most stat ntue to rry gay marriage bans on the books, wh Republins stat such as Florida and Indiana blockg attempts to strike down the outdated and effectual bans.

‘KEEP UP THE FIGHT’Meanwhile, the issue of whether relig groups should be able to refe to serve gay and lbian upl bee of spirual beliefs has e up several tim feral 2018, the Supreme Court sid wh a baker who cled to make a weddg ke for a same-sex uple, sayg would vlate his Christian s next ssn, the Court will also hear a dispute over the cy of Philalphia’s refal to place children wh a Catholic agency that bars gay and lbian upl om s latt lg on workplace discrimatn, Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a Tmp appotee, noted that the Court was “eply ncerned wh prervg the promise of the ee exercise of relign enshred our Constutn.

“Even though they may still be legal, they don’t have the same protectns, and they don’t have the same equaly that heterosexual marriage do, ” he ’s this fear of gog back to send-class cizenship that has ma Stacey and Cheralyn termed to speak gay marriage was legal, Cheralyn went to urt to adopt Stacey’s last name: the judge was lg mostly on divorce s, she said, takg 30 sends wh the divorcg upl, whereas she was terrogated for 10 mut. They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.

GAY MARRIAGE

“[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said. On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote. Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts.

WASHINGTON – Five years after the Supreme Court's landmark cisn extendg marriage rights to gay men and lbians natnwi, same-sex marriage has bee "so not a big al.

"That's the asssment of Hillary Goodridge, one of 14 people whose lawsu led Massachetts 2003 to bee the first state to sanctn gay and lbian marriag. By ntrast, she says, “once you go to a same-sex weddg, ’s hard to fire the person for beg gay the next day.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

”The Supreme Court extend workplace protectns natnwi last week for the LGBTQ muny, lg 6-3 that a landmark civil rights law barrg sex discrimatn the workplace appli to gay, lbian and transgenr the urt's majory, led by nservative Associate Jtice Neil Gorsuch, did not close the door on relig exemptns, sayg "other employers other s may raise ee exercise arguments that mer reful nsiratn. "More:Rulg on LGBTQ rights reveals prer nature of Supreme Court's nservative majoryThe urt already is nsirg four major relign s, cludg several wh implitns for gay, lbian and transgenr people.

One of them, to be heard next fall, will ci if foster re agenci wh relig objectns n turn down gay and lbian seekg relig exemptns "are feelg tense public prsure... "'The air was electric'The high urt's 5-4 cisn that stat nnot ny marriage rights to gay men and lbians was hand down on June 26 – the same date as earlier landmark LGBTQ lgs agast state sodomy laws 2003 and the feral Defense of Marriage Act 2013.