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Contents:

• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT TODAY'S SUPREME COURT MOVE ON GAY MARRIAGE MEANS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

“The worry is that this provis a green light to any bs owner that they n refe service to any person on the basis of their inty, whether they’re gay or lbian, or Jewish or Black, or anythg, bee they have an objectn to those sorts of people beg their bs, ” said Kathere Franke, a profsor at Columbia Law School. Kennedy, then the center of the High Court, rejected the optns before him, cidg agast sidg wh a same-sex uple who had been nied a ke for their Colorado weddg receptn and agast sidg wh the baker who said his oven was off-lims to gay upl. Jt a few weeks ago, when Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the natn’s hight-rankg Senate-nfirmed gay member of the Bin Admistratn, joed TIME’s Washgton Bure for a wi-rangg nversatn, he was blunt: “I mean, Roe fell and that was the law of the land for longer than I’ve been alive.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him. Roberts has sce voted several tim support of the regnn of gay marriage and agast the discrimatn of same-sex 2020, when the Supreme Court led that Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ Amerins om workplace discrimatn, the nservative jtice was among the 6 to 3 same year, the Supreme Court apparently unanimoly rejected an appeal om a former Kentucky unty clerk who refed to provi marriage licens to same-sex upl based on her relig beliefs Miller v. But all Amerins, whatever their thkg on that issue, should worry about what the majory's claim of power portends, " Alo wrote, nouncg that all those who disagreed wh gay marriage ran the risk of "beg labeled as bigots.

"One year later, he nomated Jtice Sonia 2015, when the Supreme Court was lg over Obergefell and approachg the qutn of whether allowg same-sex marriage nstuted a threat to dividual liberty, Sotomayor volly fend gay marriage, sayg: "I'm sorry. Elenis, sayg that her objectn would not be based on the stat of the same-sex uple, but stead, on the msage that the bsperson did not want to send through their qutn isn't the "who, " but the "what, " Gorsuch said on Has Amy Coney Barrett Said About Gay Marriage? Supreme Court on Friday ma marriage for same-sex upl legal natnwi, clarg that refg to grant marriage licens to gay and lbian upl vlat the landmark lg will produce the most signifint change laws erng matrimony sce the urt stck down state bans on ter-racial marriage almost 50 years majory opn the 5-4 cisn was wrten by Jtice Anthony Kennedy.

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS

""When all Amerins are treated as equal we are all more ee, " the print sundown on Friday, the Whe Hoe celebrated the lg by projectg rabow-lored lights onto the hoe's 's own views on the matter of same-sex marriage have evolved and he has phed creasgly for issu of gay rights his send the Whe Hoe Rose Garn, he said that social progrs sometim is slow, “and then there are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is reward wh jtice that arriv like a thunrbolt. Related: 'Historic Victory': Reactns to Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Rulg Pour InToday's lg overturned a cisn om the Sixth Circu Court of Appeals Ccnati, which said stat had legimate reasons for matag the tradnal fn of marriage.

Marriage did not e about as a rult of a polil movement, disvery, disease, war, relig doctre, or any other movg force of world history — and certaly not as a rult of a prehistoric cisn to exclu gays and lbians, " Roberts wrote.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

"RELATED: 2016 Candidat React to Gay Marriage RulgThe Supreme Court's cisn to strike down all gay marriage bans will also force nservative Christians and Republin polil lears to make two cril they acquice to this lg, or ntue to oppose gay marriage and fight to reverse this cisn the way nservativ have battled agast Roe v. Bobby Jdal of Louisiana, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, said a lengthy statement that the cisn "will pave the way for an all out asslt agast the relig eedom rights of Christians who disagree wh this cisn.

In 1981, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnership, which also granted hospal visatn rights and other benefs.

By 2015 (the year Obergefell was cid) thirty-six stat already issued marriage licens to same-sex upl and more than 20 unti around the world had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands 2000. Judge Heyburn held that “homosexual persons nstute a quasi-spect class, ” and clared that Kentucky’s law banng same-sex marriag vlat the Equal Protectn Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Uned Stat Constutn. — -- In a move that surprised almost everyone, the Supreme Court today cid that would not hear any of the gay marriage s currently before -- dramatilly expandg the number of stat that allow gay cisn means that, for now, the Supreme Court has sent the msage don’t want to step to the bate regardg gay marriage.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

It also means that same sex upl Indiana, Virgia, Utah, Oklahoma and Wisns will be able to marry short Olson, one of the attorneys reprentg the platiffs the challenge to the Virgia’s gay marriage ban, lled the Court’s cisn “a momento victory for the nstutnal promise of equaly, digny and jtice for all Amerins. ”The Supreme Court's move directly affects the five stat, but other stat those jurisdictn will also be affected -- possibly brgg the number of stat that allow gay marriage up to 30.

WHAT TODAY'S SUPREME COURT MOVE ON GAY MARRIAGE MEANS

ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex 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.

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The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent 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.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the 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 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 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. 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.

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Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L.

McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms. ” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah.