Supreme Court Jtic Attack Each Other Over Gay Weddg Case

Contents:

• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• US SUPREME URT CISN PAV WAY FOR SWEEPG EXPANSN OF GAY RIGHTS
• SUPREME COURT JTIC ATTACK EACH OTHER OVER GAY WEDDG CASE
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• NAMIBIAN PARLIAMENT APPROV ANTI-GAY LAW SPE URT LG
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat (SCOTUS) was tablished 1789, but didn't le on a se that directly fluenced gay rights until nearly 170 years later. Sce then, the hight feral urt the untry has weighed on about a dozen other LGBTQ rights-related s, which have had powerful impacts on the gay rights movement and the liv of LGBTQ Supreme Court's First Gay Rights CaseSCOTUS's first gay rights se foced on the First Amendment—specifilly, how the rights of ee speech and prs apply to homosexual ntent. In 1954, Los Angel' postmaster Otto Olen orred feral postal thori to seize ONE, a homosexual magaze (the natn's first), argug that the magaze's ntent was "obscene.

First Gay Marriage License Denied by SCOTUSAfter One, Inc.

Olen, SCOTUS saw few gay rights-related s for the next few s, but a uple of s are worth notg. In 1970, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell beme the first gay uple to apply for a marriage license—they were nied.

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

In 1970, they were the first gay uple to apply for a marriage the uple appealed, SCOTUS dismissed the se "for want of a substantial feral qutn, " effectively tablishg the se as precent. 'Special Rights' OverledCompared wh the precedg s, the 1990s and 2000s were relatively by for SCOTUS on gay rights issu.

Sundowner Offshore Servic, Inc., SCOTUS led that same-sex harassment is vered unr Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex, race, lor, natnal orig and Boy Suts Can Exclu Gay IndividualsIn Boy Suts of Ameri v.

Dale (2000), SCOTUS led that the Boy Suts of Ameri have a nstutnal right to bar membership to gay dividuals bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn's "exprsive msage. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995), which SCOTUS found that private anizatns uld exclu groups that prented msag ntrary to the anizatn's msag.

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

Patrick's Day para anizers exclud a group that wanted to march unr an Irish gay pri banner. Dpe the 2000 Boy Sut lg, 2013, the group end s ban on openly gay youths participatg s activi. Two years later, end s ban on openly gay adult lears.

Patrick's Day para, 2014, anizers voted to allow gay groups to march openly, but then briefly restated a ban 2017. After fierce backlash, the ban was lifted once 2003, the natn saw a landmark se for the gay rights movement: Lawrence v. For the majory opn, Jtice Kennedy wrote: "The state nnot mean their [gays'] existence or ntrol their sty by makg their private sexual nduct a crime.

US SUPREME URT CISN PAV WAY FOR SWEEPG EXPANSN OF GAY RIGHTS

" Strg of Court Rulgs Lead to Gay MarriageThe 2010s saw a strg of SCOTUS lgs that ultimately ma gay marriage legal the untry. Hodg set up an evable clash between civil and relig liberti, wh some bs argug they don't have to provi for gay marriag bee dog so go agast their relig beliefs. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn (2018), SCOTUS sid wh the Masterpiece Cakhop—which refed to make a weddg ke for a gay weddg—on the grounds that the missn didn't employ relig ntraly when evaluated the discrimatn se agast the bakery.

Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn—on whether gay and transgenr workers are protected om workplace a surprisg 6-3 cisn that me June 2020, the urt led that LGBTQ workers are protected unr Tle VII (which prevents discrimatn on the basis of sex), and nnot be fired for their sexual orientatn or genr inty. “It is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex, " Jtice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majory opn. “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.

SUPREME COURT JTIC ATTACK EACH OTHER OVER GAY WEDDG CASE

In 2020, Gorsuch livered a massive w to the LGBTQ muny when he livered the majory opn a se that extend feral protectns to gay, lbian and transgenr workers. 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. ’”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 cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

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. ”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn.

“Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (L. The dissentg jtic, he wrote, foced on “the stris gay Amerins have ma towards securg equal jtice unr law.

NAMIBIAN PARLIAMENT APPROV ANTI-GAY LAW SPE URT LG

He was the thor of every major Supreme Court cisn protectg gay rights unr the Constutn. 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.

ETBefore the hypothetil gay weddg se, he was at the center of a real one over a ke.

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. Dale that the anizatn uld exclu gay sutmasters bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn’s “exprsive msage.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

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. 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.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

Smh and her lawyers have emphasized that her objectn is not to workg wh same-sex upl or gay dividuals, but to signg webs for gay weddgs.

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. “Broad exemptns to allow relig-based discrimatn hurts people of fah, too, ” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for gay Catholics, said a statement.