At 82, the supreme urt jtice cut through the qutn of gay marriage’s nstutnaly a way that seemed to move even her most nservative peers
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- GAY COUPLE MARRIED BY RUTH BAR GSBURG RELLS THEIR SPECIAL WEDDG DAY
- RUTH BAR GSBURG EMPHASIZ 'CONSTUTN' AT GAY WEDDG
GAY COUPLE MARRIED BY RUTH BAR GSBURG RELLS THEIR SPECIAL WEDDG DAY
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Legal regnn of queer liv, same-sex marriage equaly, the crimalizatn of homosexualy, and job protectns: Ruth Bar Gsburg’s impact on the liv of LGBTQ+ Amerins is lculable, as is the potential impact of her ath on Friday.
RUTH BAR GSBURG EMPHASIZ 'CONSTUTN' AT GAY WEDDG
Two months after she joed a landmark Supreme Court lg that said the feral ernment mt regnize gay marriag, Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg on Saturday was reportedly officiatg such a weddg. * ruth bader ginsburg gay *
”Jtic Slia, Thomas, and Rehnquist dissented, wh Slia argug that was “ratnal” to whhold protectns for queer people bee their behavr was that homosexualy was crimalized would not rema the se for much longer, thanks part to Gsburg. Gsburg once aga joed the majory fdg that the crimalizatn of homosexualy was was a particularly plex cisn, bee the urt had upheld crimalizatn nearly 20 years earlier.
But the majory, wh which Gsburg joed, found that the earlier lg “means the liv of homosexual persons, ” and that “was not rrect when was cid, and is not rrect today. Clayton County, ncerng a gay employee fired after he mentned jog a gay softball league; he sued, seekg to have sexual orientatn and genr inty regnized as protected class the same way as race and disabily.
At a turng pot history where most of the male members of the US supreme urt seemed unsure which way to turn, one jtice stood out durg Tuday’s hearg on the nstutnaly of gay marriage for her spatial Bar Gsburg has long been a liberal champn – dubbed ‘Notor RBG’ by her younger fans – for her wherg dissent om the urt’s creasgly nservative while her preference for supportg equal rights this se was never doubt, what was strikg on Tuday was how her willgns to place along the civil rights ntuum allowed her to cut through the argument a way even the urt’s nservative firebrands stggled to do. ”“No, ” replied John Bursch, the somewhat chastised lawyer for the stat who are seekg to prerve their ban on gay marriage. ‘We’re on the right si of history’: gay marriage supporters on the steps of the supreme urt – vio GuardianBursch was siarly eviscerated by Gsburg when he tried to argue that the sole purpose of marriage was to ensure a stable relatnship for procreatn.