Gay weddg ke lg reaffirms that bs n't discrimate (Opn) | CNN

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• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL
• SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• GAY BERL
• HOST THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATN WH THE CREATIVE GAY WEDDG IAS

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

"Havg the urage and self-love to be who I am unapologetilly: A proud gay Black man who plans and signs love parti (weddgs) every weekend. In the future, I hope same-sex weddgs are not labeled as a 'gay weddg.

"Marriage isn't fed as gay or straight the statut, is simply marriage. It's not a 'gay weddg'—'s jt a weddg, and a uple is jt that—a uple. When same-sex marriage was legalized the Uned Stat, he published Gettg Groomed, a planng book for gay grooms, and was quickly nsired a proment name the dtry.

THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL

“As gay men, we found total acceptance both bridal and regular fashn worlds, ” says Mark Badgley and Jam Mischka, the signer duo behd Badgley Mischka.

Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St.

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led on Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl.

SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS

One of the urt’s liberal jtic wrote a dissent that the cisn’s effect is to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat” and that the cisn opens the door to other discrimatn.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

The cisn is also a retreat on gay rights for the urt. For nearly three s, the urt has expand the rights of LGBTQ people, most notably givg same-sex upl the right to marry 2015 and announcg five years later a cisn wrten by Gorsuch that a landmark civil rights law also protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om employment the latt cisn, however, Gorsuch said that a lg agast Smh would allow the ernment “to force all manner of artists, speechwrers, and others whose servic volve speech to speak what they do not believe on pa of penalty. ” For example, a gay webse signer uld be forced to sign webs for an anizatn that advot agast same-sex marriage, he wrote.

”Sotomayor referenced the urt’s history wh the issue of gay rights her dissent, wrg: “The LGBT rights movement has ma historic stris, and I am proud of the role this Court has recently played that history. The immediate, symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat, ” she wrote at another as has expand gay rights, however, the urt has been reful to say those wh differg relig views need to be rpected.

The belief that marriage n only be between one man and one woman is an ia that “long has been held — and ntu to be held — good fah by reasonable and scere people here and throughout the world, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote the urt’s gay marriage cisn. ”In dissent — and monstratg the pth of her disagreement by readg part of her objectns om the bench — Jtice Sonia Sotomayor said her lleagu were abandong prcipl of cln and protectn for gay people that past Supreme Courts extend to women and people of lor durg the civil rights and women’s rights movements. Print Bin lled the urt’s cisn “disappotg” and said he feared uld create addnal pathways for bs to exclu gay people and other mori.

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In 2018, the jtic led narrowly favor of Jack Phillips, a baker who refed to create a weddg ke for a gay uple. They left uncid whether a bs owner’s relig beliefs or ee speech rights n jtify refg some servic to gay ’s office is jt five om Phillips’s Masterpiece Cakhop. To wre the 303 Creative opn, 2020 surprised his fellow nservativ by wrg an opn that said Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay and transgenr workers.

Clayton County, announcg Friday’s lg, and noted the stris gay Amerins have ma toward securg equal Gorsuch ma a distctn between the urt’s precents which has prohibed pelled speech and s cisns upholdg public acmodatn laws.

HOST THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATN WH THE CREATIVE GAY WEDDG IAS

Sotomayor, who ss to Gorsuch’s left, has her time on the urt been a supporter of gay rights, recently officiatg at the same-sex weddg of a former clerk. Kennedy, who wrote that opn as well as the urt’s landmark cisns on gay rights, has retired.