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• SRABH KIRPAL MAY BEE FIRST GAY JUDGE OF A NSTUTNAL URT AFTER SC COLLEGIUM SAID HIS SWISS GAY PARTNER, A SWISS EMBASSY OFFICER, IS NOT A SECURY THREAT
• SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
• WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?
• WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
• SC FILE ON GAY JUDGE
• INCLIVY JUDICIARY: SC LLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER AS HC JUDGE
• IGNORG R&AW OBJECTNS, SC SENDS GAY JUDGE KIRPAL'S NAME FOR HC JUDG AGA
• BIN NAM GAY JUDGE TO FERAL CA BENCH
• SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL AS HIGH COURT JUDGE
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM AGA BACKS GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL FOR HC JUDGE
• DELHI HC LIKELY TO GET FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• GAY JUDGE TO PRI OVER SAN MATEO URTS

SRABH KIRPAL MAY BEE FIRST GAY JUDGE OF A NSTUTNAL URT AFTER SC COLLEGIUM SAID HIS SWISS GAY PARTNER, A SWISS EMBASSY OFFICER, IS NOT A SECURY THREAT

The Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday reerated s cisn to promote gay Advote Srabh Kirpal as a Judge of the Delhi High Court.

The centre had objected to Srabh Kirpal’s elevatn as a judge bee he has a gay partner who is a Swiss natnal.

SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Wh this, Srabh Kirpal is set to bee the first gay judge of a High Court India, if the central t fally accepts the llegium cisn. The centre had objected to the name of Kirpal sayg that as he is gay, he uld be biased due to his open support for gay rights. Rpondg to the ncern of the centre that Kirpal’s gay partner is a Swiss natnal, the Collegium said that Swzerland is a iendly natn and therefore do not have any bearg on natnal secury.

It is notable that one aspect that was not mentned by the Collegium was that apart om beg a foreign natnal, Srabh Kirpal’s gay partner Nilas Germa Bachmann is also an official of the Swiss Feral Government.

WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?

By Tirtho Banerjee: The Centre has urged the Supreme Court Collegium to rensir s remendatn to elevate openly-gay lawyer Srabh Kirpal as a Delhi High Court judge.

Kirpal was part of the team of lawyers that reprented Sunil Mehra and Navtej Sgh Johar, who were among the petners the celebrated se that led to crimalisg gay sex.

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WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE

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SC FILE ON GAY JUDGE

He’s the third most nservative jtice acrdg to the Mart Qun has provid a glimmer of hope support of gay marriage, as has poted out. Thomas also joed his fellow nservativ lleagu votg that the urt shouldn’t le on gay don’t unt on Thomas to le favor of allowg same-sex upl to get married.

The Supreme Court Collegium has reerated s November 2021 remendatn to appot senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, as a judge of the Delhi High Court. No, if you ask, senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, whose appotment as judge of the Delhi high urt ntu to be layed. Related Articl He was part of a team of lawyers that reprented Sunil Mehra and Navtej Sgh Johar, the now well-known petners the historic se which the Supreme Court (SC) stck down the lonial-era Sec 377, which crimalised homosexualy.

INCLIVY JUDICIARY: SC LLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER AS HC JUDGE

In a letter dated 1 April 2021, the law mister stated that though homosexualy stands -crimalised India, nohels same-sex marriage remas bereft of regnn eher dified statutory law or undified personal law India. The Centre also apprehend that given Kirpal’s “attachment” to the e of gay rights, the possibily of Kirpal’s bias and prejudice nnot be led out, Live Law reports.

“I don’t thk the ernment necsarily wants to appot an openly gay person to the bench, ” he told the news channel. While the RAW had exprsed apprehensns over Kripal’s same-sex relatnship wh swiss natnal Nilas Germa Bachmann, the law mistry had objected to Kripal’s arnt volvement and passnate attachment to the e of gay rights and said sce same-sex marriage is not legalized India, such characteristics of his uld volve possible bias and prejudice.

IGNORG R&AW OBJECTNS, SC SENDS GAY JUDGE KIRPAL'S NAME FOR HC JUDG AGA

I am a gay activist only bee I’m a lawyer, says senr advote Srabh Kripal has e to the limelight recently wh the Supreme urt llegium reeratg his name as a judge of the Delhi High Court. The son of Bhupr Nath Kripal, who served as the 31st chief jtice of India 2002, and Ana Kripal, would be the untry’s first openly gay judge if appoted. The SC Collegium head by CJI reerated s cisn to appot five advot as HC judg, cludg a senr advote (Srabh Kirpal), who if appoted, uld be India’s first openly gay judge.

Government’s posn behd the objectns: Acrdg to the Unn Law Mistry, spe the fact that homosexualy is no longer a crime India, same-sex marriage is still not regnized eher dified statutory law or undified personal law. Gay senr attorney Srabh Kirpal's name had been rejected five tim: iStockNew Delhi: The foreign telligence agency of India, Rearch and Analysis Wg (R&AW) raised "objectns" agast for a send time the name of gay senr attorney Srabh Kirpal for appotment as a judge of the Delhi high urt, but the Supreme Court llegium led by CJI D Y Chandrachud rejected them and reerated his nomatn. The law mistry objected to Kirpal's "arnt volvement and passnate attachment to the e of gay rights" and stated that sce "same-sex" marriage is not legal India, such characteristics of his uld volve potential bias and prejudice.

” Regardg Kirpal's open homosexual orientatn, the llegium ced the Navtej Johar nstutn bench cisn, which held that every person has the right to keep his or her own digny and uniquens regardls of sexual orientatn.

BIN NAM GAY JUDGE TO FERAL CA BENCH

It also noted only 20 openly gay or lbian people, at the time of the report's issuance, had ever been nomated to the feral judiciary sce the ratifitn of the Constutn.

The Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday stood firm by s rolve to have the ernment appot openly gay lawyer Srabh Kirpal as Delhi High Court judge, sayg every dividual is “entled to mata their own digny and dividualy based on sexual orientatn” three-member Collegium of Chief Jtice D.

SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL AS HIGH COURT JUDGE

Kirpal’s partner beg a Swiss natnal, that they have an “timate relatnship” and the lawyer is “open about his sexual orientatn” ernment, the Collegium said, was also worried that same-sex marriage was not regnised India though “homosexualy stands crimalised”.

Kirpal’s “arnt volvement and passnate attachment to gay rights” did not le out the “possibily of bias and prejudice”. 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.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX 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. The dissentg jtic, he wrote, foced on “the stris gay Amerins have ma towards securg equal jtice unr law.

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

SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM AGA BACKS GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL FOR HC JUDGE

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. 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.

DELHI HC LIKELY TO GET FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE

”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.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

” 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.

McCoy for The New York TimGay and transgenr rights anizatns on Friday nmned the Supreme Court lg backg a Colorado webse signer’s bid to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, llg the cisn a dangero backslidg on L.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple.

GAY JUDGE TO PRI OVER SAN MATEO URTS

Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory.

The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers. ”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl.