France n refe homosexuals the right to adopt children, the European urt of human rights led yterday a long-awaed cisn that was stantly nmned as outmod and unjt by gay rights groups.
Contents:
- GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS: LG OVERTURNED BY US SUPREME URT LGBT VICTORY
- OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
- ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
- GAY ADOPTN SE REACH COURT
- FRANCE N BAR ADOPTN BY GAYS, L URT
GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS: LG OVERTURNED BY US SUPREME URT LGBT VICTORY
However, the attentn-grabbg headl Nebraska sent a clear msage of bigotry and homophobia wh the legal adoptn urt proceedgs. ""We do not doubt that this tert is a weighty one, for '[o]ur society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, '" Roberts wrote, quotg the 2018 se Masterpiece Cakhop v. " The legal ntretemps the Alabama se is the latt twist a saga volvg the Alabama Supreme Court and the whole issue of gay rights and same-sex marriage.
The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign. The first se will nsir the dismissals of a unty ernment employee and a skydivg stctor, who were fired for beg gay. In 1953, a publisher associated wh the Los Angel chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first “homophile” groups, released somethg unique for s time: ONE: The Homosexual Magaze.
OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
The magaze, which is nsired by One Archiv Foundatn to be Ameri’s first wily-distributed magaze for gay rears, clud articl, edorials, short stori and other ntent. In s cisn, the Supreme Court tossed out a lower urt’s lg, and tablished that material aimed at a gay dience was not herently obscene. “The urt went out of s way to make clear that gay people uld be crimalized unr the provisns, and there was nothg wrong wh that.
Many people who feared the then-myster disease were “hyper-foced” on the ia that gay men were promiscuo and saw HIV-posive people as “sort of gettg what they served, ” says Maril. The se revolved around an amendment to a Colorado law, which banned ci om passg anti-discrimatn laws that would protect gay and bisexual people. “Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights.
In 1990, the Boy Suts of Ameri cid to expel Jam Dale, an assistant sutmaster and Eagle Sut, after he was intified a newspaper as a lear of Rutgers Universy’s Lbian/Gay Alliance. “The Boy Suts asserts that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu embodied the Sut Oath and Law, particularly those reprented by the terms ‘morally straight’ and ‘clean, ’ and that the anizatn do not want to promote homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr.
ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
“It wasn’t until 2013 that the group cid to end s ban on gay children as members, but still ntued s ban on gay adult lears, ” Dale wrote a 2015 opn piece TIME. “This iative was wrong many ways: It was great that they weren’t excludg young members, but was wrong to tell someone that you n be gay when you’re a child, but you’re immoral as an adult.
GAY ADOPTN SE REACH COURT
In a 7-2 cisn, the Supreme Court found for Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who had refed to make a gay uple a weddg ke on relig grounds. We are among the first generatn of children raised by two gay dads or two lbian moms. But the gay slurs, hostile glar, and bullyg paled parison wh the realizatn that our ernment did not stand behd and our fai—forbiddg marriage and curbg parental rights, passg state nstutnal amendments exprsly nyg our parents equal protectn, and even crimalizg their sexual relatnships.
”The latter argument c a recent Supreme Court se which the ernment tervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple due to his relig beliefs. The anizatn argued that to provi the servic to gay upl vlated s nstutnal rights to ee relig exercise and ee speech. Over 21 percent of gay upl are raisg adopted children, pared wh 3 percent of straight upl, and nearly 3 percent of gay upl have foster children, pared wh 0.
FRANCE N BAR ADOPTN BY GAYS, L URT
A seri of major nstutnal disput over the rights of gays and lbians are velopg feral urts, and now the first of that new wave of s has reached the Supreme Court: a signifint tt se on whether the Constutn protects same-sex upl’ rights as parents.
 State officials refed, bee of a policy agast adoptn by unmarried upl — this se, a gay uple.  And those claratns arise the ntext of a nstutnal claim to legal equaly by a gay uple.
The se do not tt directly the rights of gays to adopt,  an issue that has arisen several stat, but do volve whether a policy preference that adoptive parents are more qualified if married is nstutnal — a policy that n have a direct effect on gay upl pecially, sce their right to marry exists so few stat.   But, more broadly, the se has implitns for the duty of stat to honor legal orrs that gays and lbians ga other stat – perhaps, even marriage, pecially if Congrs ultimately is found not to have the thory to spare stat om rpectg marriag performed elsewhere.