Gay rights mpaigners n creasgly look to untri like the UK, France and the U.S. for spiratn and mon e, but their opponents are also mobilisg on an ternatnal sle agast plans to perm same-sex marriage, many of them uned by relig fah.
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THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE
Yet also found unr s equal protectn analysis that if straight people uld get married, gay people mt be able to get married as well. So the qutn be whether gay people mt also be afford the right to marry whout regard to their sex or sexual orientatn. To the ntrary, the equal protectn jurispnce has attempted to upend tradns that have led to the subordatn of particular groups — whether abolishg a long tradn of barrg racial mori om servg on juri, a long tradn of excludg women om state-fund universi or a long tradn of subordatg gay, lbian and bisexual people.
OPN: WHY THE FS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
Unr Dobbs’s problematic “eply rooted the natn’s history” formulatn, the long history of anti-gay discrimatn unrm many gay-rights arguments. McDarrah/Getty ImagThe Supreme Court’s cisn affirmg the right to same-sex marriage across the Uned Stat is a joyo moment for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE GAYER
But uld also be the swan song for the movement for gay eedom that began after World War is unfortunate that the movement’s two great victori of the last — the right to serve openly the ary and the right to be married — have e as progrs has stalled or reversed so many other areas of civil rights: equal pay and reproductive choice for women; hog and school segregatn; police vlence agast mori; and the prospects of a cent wage and a modicum of job and retirement secury for is no accint that the one civil rights law that would likely apply to the greatt numbers of gays — a ban on discrimatn employment and hog on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty — ntu to elu .
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