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Supreme Court Jtice Samuel Alo’s leaked draft opn strikg down abortn rights also referenc the 2015 lg legalizg same-sex marriage lg, which rais the qutn if gay marriage is the next to fall. * gay marriage overturn *
“It would be a ep psychologil and emotnal blow to a lot of gay, lbian, and bisexual people to be told that even if their state has to regnize a marriage formed out of the state, that their state nohels disapprov of their relatnship and effectively nsirs them send class cizens, ” says Michael Boui, a law profsor at the Universy of Buffalo. Hodg, the urt led unnstutnal for stat to ban or refe to regnize same-sex the recently regnized rights uld e to qutn was an issue raised by some scholars already December last year, when law profsor at New York Universy law school Melissa Murray told the Guardian that gay rights, accs to ntraceptiv and even terracial marriag were threatened by beg rooted that same "right to privacy" on which Roe v. There are several reasons why gay marriage is never gog away, at least for the foreeable future.
As Walter Olson wrote for the CATO Instute, “gay marriage isn’t gog anywhere, ” even a nservative Court. Days after his electn, Print Tmp went on “60 Mut” said of the gay‐marriage legal s: “They’ve been settled, and I’m fe wh that.
Gay marriage happened, life went on. There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn. And Congrs, the gay rights movement has found alli up and g Republin stars like Rep.
While Congrs is movg swiftly to ensure natnwi regnn of same-sex marriage, gay LGBTQ upl are trated ’s even necsary after so many years. * gay marriage overturn *
There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay. Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom.
The real breakthrough, gay Republin operativ say, me wh the nomatn of Donald Tmp. Though evangelils flocked to his ndidacy, nservative gay rights activists also saw an opportuny.
A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them. “For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny. Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group.
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Gay rights activists and Republins acknowledge there is still much work to be done wh the GOP. Gay rights advot the party said Republins missed an opportuny to change the platform’s text 2020. His admistratn mted to endg the HIV/AIDS epimic wh 10 years and phed to crimalize homosexualy abroad.
“Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere. “As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships. “I thk even wh Christians the gay [marriage] issue, that ship has sailed.