In a historic cisn for the gay right's movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U.S. Constutn grants same-sex upl the right to marry. Jtice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry.
Contents:
- HERE'S WHAT 5 SUPREME COURT JTIC HAVE SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
- WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- WHY FOUR JTIC WERE AGAST THE SUPREME COURT'S HUGE GAY-MARRIAGE DECISN
- 4 SUPREME COURT JTIC VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: READ THEIR OPNS
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
HERE'S WHAT 5 SUPREME COURT JTIC HAVE SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
* which justices voted for gay marriage *
REUTERS/Jim Bourg (Jim Bourg/Rters)The Supreme Court’s lg Friday that same-sex upl uld get married no matter where they live was the culmatn of two remarkable wav that have spread across the untry recent years: The swell of urts strikg down state bans on same-sex marriage and the surge public support for such, even as public opn has shifted and urts have acted, the high urt’s 5 to 4 lg was a historic and narrow victory for gay rights.
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to ci once and for all whether all 50 stat mt allow gay and lbian upl marry, likely rolvg one of the greatt civil rights bat of the 21st century.
‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
Four Supreme Court jtic did not vote to legalize gay marriage the Uned Stat, cg a range of opns, cludg Jtice Anton Slia blastg the urt's official cisn as "pretent as s ntent is egotistic." * which justices voted for gay marriage *
Jtice Anthony Kennedy: The stat that have given gay upl the right to marry “nferred upon them a digny and stat of immense import, ” wrote Jtice Anthony Kennedy the landmark Uned Stat v.
Wdsor (2013) endg the feral law (DOMA) that allowed stat to refe to regnize gay marriag granted unr the laws of other stat.
Jtice Anton Slia “This se is about power several rpects, ” Slia wrote his dissentg opn on the Wdsor se, argug the urts should not ci laws on gay marriage. ” Jtice Samuel Alo “Rponnt Edh Wdsor, supported by the Uned Stat, asks this Court to tervene that bate, and although she uch her argument different terms, what she seeks is a holdg that enshr the Constutn a particular unrstandg of marriage unr which the sex of the partners mak no difference, ” wrote Alo on the same se, also argug elected officials should ci on gay marriage, not the urts.
WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas haven’t wrten separate opns on gay marriage s cid by the Supreme Court, and have kept tight-lipped on the issue recent years — though the left-leang Breyer and Sotomayor sid agast DOMA 2013, and Thomas has joed his fellow nservativ votg that the urt shouldn’t le on gay marriage. Gay, lbian and transgenr activists react to the Iowa Supreme Court's cisn April 2009 to make same-sex marriage legal.
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.
WHY FOUR JTIC WERE AGAST THE SUPREME COURT'S HUGE GAY-MARRIAGE DECISN
"In 2020, he was dissent aga after the urt's cisn to ban discrimatn agast gay and transgenr employe the workplace. "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. "Sotomayor was among the jtic who 2020 voted to expand Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act to clu gay and transgenr employe a cisn that was brought forward by three s—Bostock v.
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?
4 SUPREME COURT JTIC VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: READ THEIR OPNS
In lg favor of gay marriage, he said, "Five lawyers have closed the bate and enacted their own visn of marriage as a matter of nstutnal law.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
"(RELATED: What 2016 Candidat Are Sayg About the Gay Marriage Rulg)Roberts's other dispute is that many of the arguments ma support of gay marriage uld also be ed to support plural marriage.
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
"If not havg the opportuny to marry 'serv to disrpect and subordate' gay and lbian upl, why wouldn't the same 'imposn of this disabily, '... "(RELATED: Watch The Two GOP Printial Candidat After the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Decisn)Slia wrote that if he ever were to jo an opn that began wh that sentence he "would hi my head a bag, " sayg such language was more like the "mystil aphorisms of the fortune okie" than, say, legendary Chief Jtice John Marshall. "Jtice Samuel AloIn his dissent, Alo argued that gay marriage is not protected the Constutn unr the Due Procs Clse bee "liberty" only appli to those prcipl that are rooted U.
The Jtic the majory claim the thory to nfer nstutnal protectn upon that right simply bee they believe that is fundamental, " Alo also reaffirmed his posn that there is no way to nfirm what the oute of gay marriage may be on the stutn of tradnal marriage, and therefore the Court is and should not be a posn to take on the "For lennia, marriage was extribly lked to the one thg that only an oppose-sex uple n do: procreate.
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
Their basic argument is that Stat formalize and promote marriage, unlike other fulfillg human relatnships, orr to enurage potentially procreative nduct to take place wh a lastg un that has long been thought to provi the bt atmosphere for raisg that the majory has led favor of gay marriage, Alo offered a stark warng about future nflict between relig liberty and progrsive ias. Hodg, the 2015 landmark that gave same-sex upl a right to marry, for the proposn that certa bs owners n refe gay upl. They sid wh baker Jack Phillips, a vout Christian, who had refed to make a ctom ke for a gay uple and been sanctned.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Unr qutng om liberal jtic, Waggoner said that even a basic msage announcg a gay marriage would put Smh a difficult posn. Former Print Donald Tmp, a Republin, was “the first print to start as print approvg of gay marriage, ” his adviser Kellyanne Conway said 2019.
Tmp appoted the first gay Cabet-level official, actg telligence director Ric Grenell, 2020 after posg wh a rabow flag durg the 2016 mpaign. The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 unnstutnal.
The se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned wedlock.