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Contents:

• THE UNED STAT CONSTUTN AND GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• THE EQUALY CLSE: GAY RIGHTS AND THE CONSTUTN

THE UNED STAT CONSTUTN AND GAY RIGHTS

Evans, 1 the Supreme Court stck down a state nstutnal amendment that both overturned lol ordanc prohibg discrimatn agast homosexuals, lbians, or bisexuals, and prohibed any state or lol ernmental actn to eher remedy discrimatn or to grant preferenc based on sexual orientatn. The Court cled to adopt the analysis of the Supreme Court of Colorado, which had held that the amendment ged on gays’ and lbians’ fundamental right to participate the polil procs.

18 In reachg that ncln, the Court noted that, jt as evolvg societal norms rm the liberty rights of same-sex upl, so too do “new sights and societal unrstandgs” about homosexualy reveal “unjtified equaly” wh rpect to tradnal ncepts of the stutn of marriage. " This law applied to heterosexual and homosexual nduct, but the Court reviewed specifilly the ntext of homosexual nduct. It cid that the right to privacy provid by nstutnal due procs did not ver homosexual behavr, even when nsentg adults are volved.

Texas, the Supreme Court overled Bowers and stck down a state law that crimalized homosexual sodomy. The Uned Stat Constutn And Gay Rights – Robert Clifton Robson.

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

The men who penned the Constutn and the Bill of Rights unrstood that the acceptance of homosexual behavr would ero and unrme the moral foundatn of the natn. WHAT has been here observed…, which ought to be the more clear proportn as the crime is the more ttable, may be applied to another offence, of a still eper maligny; the famo crime agast nature (homosexualy), mted eher wh man or beast….

As the First Amendment was first erod by the supprsn of relig exprsn Amerin ernment, the immoral movement to accept gay rights further sought to gra the foundatn of the fay. Amerins beg unaware of the tent of the founrs of our natn, believe today, that gay rights are human rights.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

In fact, gay rights are the force of erosn that has now placed the entire natn near the precipice of llapse.

It is clear that the discsn regardg the rights of gays to marry, was already termed by the Foundg Father’s when they wrote the words to the Constutn. The fact that our print and Supreme Court have termed that the rights of gays to marry is a right afford to them by the Constutn, shows jt how far we have moved away om God sce our foundg.

Gay Marriage is the Law of the Land; So Also is the Right of Free Speech. Constutn, UntegorizedTags: Blackstone's mentary on the law, How the Constutn was amed, Supreme urt cisn on gay marriage, The Constutn and Gay Rights, The tent of the foundg fathers, Where did the Constutn origate? 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.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

’”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 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.

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.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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.

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.

THE EQUALY CLSE: GAY RIGHTS AND THE CONSTUTN

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.

”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.