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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.

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

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

’”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.

THE EQUALY CLSE: GAY RIGHTS AND THE CONSTUTN

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.

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