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Contents:

• SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• SUPREME COURT HEARS SE OF COLORADO WEDDG WEBSE REFG GAY MARRIAGE WORK
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS

Followg Monday’s lgs, if a gay uple was a mon-law marriage before was legal, their marriage was retroactively validated when the the U. Supreme Court stck down bans on gay marriage four stat Obergefell v.

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JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

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

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SUPREME COURT HEARS SE OF COLORADO WEDDG WEBSE REFG GAY MARRIAGE WORK

Kennedy, who wrote that opn as well as the urt’s landmark cisns on gay rights, has retired. Unsurprisgly, Mchell oppos gay rights and said a Supreme Court brief that Obergefell v. "The jtic led 6-3 along iologil l favor of Denver-area web signer Lorie Smh, who ced her Christian beliefs agast gay marriage challengg a Colorado anti-discrimatn law.

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

"Sotomayor add, "By issug this new license to discrimate a se brought by a pany that seeks to ny same-sex upl the full and equal enjoyment of s servic, the immediate, symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat. A 2015 cisn legalized gay marriage natnwi.

A 2020 lg found that a feral law barrg workplace discrimatn protects gay and transgenr ACCOMMODATIONS LAWSmh, who liv the Denver suburb of Ltleton, is an evangelil Christian who has said she believ marriage is only between a man and a woman. She preemptively sued Colorado's civil rights missn and other state officials 2016 bee she said she feared beg punished for refg to serve gay weddgs unr Colorado's public acmodatns lled Friday's lg a victory for all Amerins, addg, "Colorado n't force me or anyone to say somethg we don't believe.

And so on, " Sotomayor 's cisn followed one 2018 which the jtic led favor of a Denver-area baker who refed based on his Christian views to make a weddg ke for a gay acmodatns laws exist many stat, banng discrimatn areas such as hog, hotels, retail bs, rtrants and tnal stutns. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.