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.
OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
" 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.
ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
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. 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.
GAY ADOPTN SE REACH COURT
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.
FRANCE N BAR ADOPTN BY GAYS, L URT
“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.
“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. 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.