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- KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE
- SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
- TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
- DIGNER WHO REFED TO MAKE WEBSE FOR GAY UPLE READY FOR SUPREME COURT FIGHT
- WEB SIGNER WHO REFED TO CREATE GAY UPL’ WEBS NIED APPEAL
- SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
KENTUCKY CLERK KIM DAVIS, WHO REFED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO GAYS, SEEKS TO END CASE
The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl is seekg to close the book on the ntent se. * woman who refused to marry gay couple *
The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refg to issue marriage licens to gay upl is seekg to close the book on a ntent se that ma her a pariah to progrsiv and a hero to some relig County Clerk Kim Davis has asked the 6th U. Easley / APThe new law provis “the very relig acmodatn Davis sought om the begng of this ligatn, ” Davis' lawyers claimed the urt ACLU, which was party to the su agast Davis filed by four gay upl who were nied marriage licens, offered no objectns. ”“On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s lg, we’re pleased that same-sex upl n fully realize legal regnn of their love, cludg Rowan County, Kentucky, ” add Louisville lawyer Daniel Canon, who reprented one of the beme the darlg of the relig right last summer when she refed to issue marriage licens after the Supreme Court legalized gay Apostolic Christian who has been married four tim — twice to the same man — Davis argued that her fah f marriage as the unn of a man and a woman.
SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * woman who refused to marry gay couple *
LGBTQ mpaigners and legal experts have told of their fears and outrage on Monday after two US supreme urt jtic issued an “appallg” attack on the 2015 landmark cisn enablg same-sex upl to me as the urt cled to hear an appeal the se of former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed 2015 after refg to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl, after gay marriage beme legal.
TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
”Former Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg, who was the first openly gay printial ndidate, and is married to hband Chasten Buttigieg, also rpond to the jtic, tweetg: “So much for precent and judicial rtrat. " Davis "may have been one of the first victims" of the cisn, "but she will not be the last, " wrote Clarence Thomas for himself and Samuel the marriage lg, gay upl sued Davis for refg to issue them marriage licens, and she was briefly jailed for ntempt when she ntued to refe after a urt orred her to grant them. “It is appallg that five years after the historic [gay marriage lg], two jtic still nsir same-sex upl ls worthy of marriage than other upl, " said Jam Esseks, director of the group’s LGBT and HIV Project.
— A Kentucky unty clerk who has bee a symbol of relig opposn to same-sex marriage was jailed Thursday after fyg a feral urt orr to issue licens to gay clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, Ky., was orred taed for ntempt of urt and later rejected a proposal to allow her puti to procs same-sex marriage licens that uld have prompted her release.
DIGNER WHO REFED TO MAKE WEBSE FOR GAY UPLE READY FOR SUPREME COURT FIGHT
ViotranscripttranscriptProtters Outsi Kentucky CourthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to — COURTESY WHAS11 NEWS, EMBARGO LOUISVILLE. Var of gay marriage supporters and monstrators outsi Kentucky urthoeDemonstrators exprsed support for gay marriage and relig liberty outsi a urthoe Ashland, Ky., on Thursday, where the Rowan County clerk of urts, Kim Davis, was orred to jail. Smh, who says she’s served LGBTQ clients, claims the lawsu is not about gay marriage or the ctomer, only the eedom om beg erced to exprsg ias ntrary to her beliefs.
WEB SIGNER WHO REFED TO CREATE GAY UPL’ WEBS NIED APPEAL
ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex unns.Cred...Rachel 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.Jtice Neil M.
“Those servic are no ls protected speech today bee they are nveyed wh a ‘voice that ronat farther than uld om any soapbox.’”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 Christians.The cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L.G.B.T.Q. The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent progrs.In 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. “More broadly, today’s cisn weakens longstandg laws that protect all Amerins agast discrimatn public acmodatns — cludg people of lor, people wh disabili, people of fah, and women.”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn.
SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
“Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (L.G.B.T.) people, no ls than anyone else, serve that digny and eedom.”Jtice Gorsuch rpond directly to the dissent the majory opn, wrg that the two sis looked at the same se and saw totally different issu.“It is difficult to read the dissent and nclu we are lookg at the same se,” he wrote. The dissentg jtic, he wrote, foced on “the stris gay Amerins have ma towards securg equal jtice unr law.”But the nservative jtic did not see the se through that lens, he said, wrg that “none of this answers the qutn we face today: Can a state force someone who provis her own exprsive servic to abandon her nscience and speak s preferred msage stead?”When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the se, 303 Creative L.L.C. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the right.Lower 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 orientatn.The 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.
A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig grounds.Cred...Nick Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L.L.C. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event.