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GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE

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”John Arthur, an ALS patient, and Jim Obergefell, partners for more than 20 years, are married on a medil plane Maryland Hartong / Ccnati Enquirer via AP fileAdvocy groups were quick to h back at the two nservative jtic, wh the Human Rights Campaign, the untry’s largt gay rights group, sayg a statement that Thomas and Alo had “renewed their war on LGBTQ rights and marriage equaly, as the urt hangs the balance. Brad Polumbo, a journalist who is gay, recently wrote an article for The Washgton Examer which he argued that ncerns regardg Barrett are overblown.

He relled the upset wh the LGBTQ muny over Jtice Neil Gorsuch’s nomatn, and — potg to Gorsuch’s vote favor of gay and transgenr rights June Bostock v. ”“She says she will not impose her personal beliefs on the law, and she will le for the law as is wrten, and I believe her bee she has a track rerd of dog that, as do many of the nservative jtic, ” he safe is gay marriage?

HOW SAFE IS GAY MARRIAGE? ADVOT FEAR CREASGLY NSERVATIVE URT

He said he’s nfint we will not see a return of such laws, as even those not as explicly anti-gay as the one at the center of Lawrence v. To go back on gay marriage now, Smh said, would e such a “polil taclysm that the urt would be very reluctant to take on such an unpopular posn.

When Gallup first polled Amerins on the topic of gay marriage, 1996, only 27 percent said they were favor of also noted there was an crease support for workplace protectns for LGBTQ people, which the urt recently led favor of June’s Bostock cisn, termg that Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects agast workplace discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr were surprised when Gorsuch, a Tmp appotee, voted favor of those protectns, and fact wrote the argued that many “misread Gorsuch, ” whom he lled “not your tradnal social nservative” but rather a “libertarian nservative, ” hence his cisn on that se g through a “pla readg of a statute rather than a large nstutnal exercise.

Relig eedomBut if anti-gay laws are unlikely to make a eback, where should gay rights activists foc their attentn?

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

The nservative legal group, which has a long track rerd of opposg gay and transgenr rights, has been emed an anti-LGBTQ “hate group” by the Southern Policy Law Center, though the anizatn ntts that characterizatn.

Transgenr rights are ls well tablished by legal precent, which means they are likely to be at a bigger risk of failg to advance than gay rights, Gould argued.

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. ”Abortn accs and transgenr health reCathryn Oakley, an attorney wh the Human Rights Campaign, the untry’s largt LGBTQ rights group, strsed that the high urt’s cisn will have a direct impact on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage.