In a historic cisn for the gay right's movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U.S. Constutn grants same-sex upl the right to marry. Jtice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry.
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- ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
- HERE'S WHAT 5 SUPREME COURT JTIC HAVE SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- 4 SUPREME COURT JTIC VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: READ THEIR OPNS
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- WHY FOUR JTIC WERE AGAST THE SUPREME COURT'S HUGE GAY-MARRIAGE DECISN
‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
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The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to ci once and for all whether all 50 stat mt allow gay and lbian upl marry, likely rolvg one of the greatt civil rights bat of the 21st century. Jtice Anthony Kennedy: The stat that have given gay upl the right to marry “nferred upon them a digny and stat of immense import, ” wrote Jtice Anthony Kennedy the landmark Uned Stat v. Jtice Anton Slia “This se is about power several rpects, ” Slia wrote his dissentg opn on the Wdsor se, argug the urts should not ci laws on gay marriage.
HERE'S WHAT 5 SUPREME COURT JTIC HAVE SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
” Jtice Samuel Alo “Rponnt Edh Wdsor, supported by the Uned Stat, asks this Court to tervene that bate, and although she uch her argument different terms, what she seeks is a holdg that enshr the Constutn a particular unrstandg of marriage unr which the sex of the partners mak no difference, ” wrote Alo on the same se, also argug elected officials should ci on gay marriage, not the urts. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas haven’t wrten separate opns on gay marriage s cid by the Supreme Court, and have kept tight-lipped on the issue recent years — though the left-leang Breyer and Sotomayor sid agast DOMA 2013, and Thomas has joed his fellow nservativ votg that the urt shouldn’t le on gay marriage. REUTERS/Jim Bourg (Jim Bourg/Rters)The Supreme Court’s lg Friday that same-sex upl uld get married no matter where they live was the culmatn of two remarkable wav that have spread across the untry recent years: The swell of urts strikg down state bans on same-sex marriage and the surge public support for such, even as public opn has shifted and urts have acted, the high urt’s 5 to 4 lg was a historic and narrow victory for gay rights.
WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
Roberts has sce voted several tim support of the regnn of gay marriage and agast the discrimatn of same-sex 2020, when the Supreme Court led that Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ Amerins om workplace discrimatn, the nservative jtice was among the 6 to 3 same year, the Supreme Court apparently unanimoly rejected an appeal om a former Kentucky unty clerk who refed to provi marriage licens to same-sex upl based on her relig beliefs Miller v. But all Amerins, whatever their thkg on that issue, should worry about what the majory's claim of power portends, " Alo wrote, nouncg that all those who disagreed wh gay marriage ran the risk of "beg labeled as bigots.
"One year later, he nomated Jtice Sonia 2015, when the Supreme Court was lg over Obergefell and approachg the qutn of whether allowg same-sex marriage nstuted a threat to dividual liberty, Sotomayor volly fend gay marriage, sayg: "I'm sorry.
"Sotomayor was among the jtic who 2020 voted to expand Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act to clu gay and transgenr employe a cisn that was brought forward by three s—Bostock v. Elenis, sayg that her objectn would not be based on the stat of the same-sex uple, but stead, on the msage that the bsperson did not want to send through their qutn isn't the "who, " but the "what, " Gorsuch said on Has Amy Coney Barrett Said About Gay Marriage?
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
WASHINGTON – Five years after the Supreme Court's landmark cisn extendg marriage rights to gay men and lbians natnwi, same-sex marriage has bee "so not a big al.
"That's the asssment of Hillary Goodridge, one of 14 people whose lawsu led Massachetts 2003 to bee the first state to sanctn gay and lbian marriag. ”The Supreme Court extend workplace protectns natnwi last week for the LGBTQ muny, lg 6-3 that a landmark civil rights law barrg sex discrimatn the workplace appli to gay, lbian and transgenr the urt's majory, led by nservative Associate Jtice Neil Gorsuch, did not close the door on relig exemptns, sayg "other employers other s may raise ee exercise arguments that mer reful nsiratn.
4 SUPREME COURT JTIC VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: READ THEIR OPNS
"More:Rulg on LGBTQ rights reveals prer nature of Supreme Court's nservative majoryThe urt already is nsirg four major relign s, cludg several wh implitns for gay, lbian and transgenr people. One of them, to be heard next fall, will ci if foster re agenci wh relig objectns n turn down gay and lbian seekg relig exemptns "are feelg tense public prsure... "'The air was electric'The high urt's 5-4 cisn that stat nnot ny marriage rights to gay men and lbians was hand down on June 26 – the same date as earlier landmark LGBTQ lgs agast state sodomy laws 2003 and the feral Defense of Marriage Act 2013.
"Lookg back, the victory is equally gratifyg to those like Evan Wolfson, founr of the Freedom to Marry mpaign; Jam Esseks, director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr & HIV Project; Roberta Kaplan, who reprented Edie Wdsor of New York the 2013 se that forced the feral ernment to regnize same-sex marriage; and Mary Bonto, the natn's leadg LGBTQ rights lawyer, who won both the Massachetts se 2003 and the Supreme Court se 2015.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
The cisn left unrolved whether other opponents of same-sex marriage, cludg bakers, florists, photographers and viographers, n refe mercial weddg servic to gay and lbian upl. The negotiatns those s, not prevly reported, offer a glimpse to tra-offs among jtic, monstrate the chief’s soft power of persuasn and show that the urt’s sentiment on gay rights issu n be both ght and evolvg.
WHY FOUR JTIC WERE AGAST THE SUPREME COURT'S HUGE GAY-MARRIAGE DECISN
Meanwhile, Kennedy would vote for the urt to hear the appeal of the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Colorado, who’d been sanctned for refg to bake a weddg ke for two gay men. The acceptance of an appeal om a baker who had refed to create a ke for a gay uple based on relig objectns uld easily have led to a public perceptn of new Supreme Court hostily toward gay rights.
Colorado Civil Rights Commissn was brought by a baker, Jack Phillips, who had been sanctned unr Colorado law for refg to create a ke for two gay men celebratg their marriage. Phillips argued that beg forced to provi a weddg ke to a gay uple vlated his nstutnal rights to the ee exercise of relign and ee speech. “The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy wrote, reflectg his ntued tentativens.
Gsburg and Sotomayor were the only dissenters, homg on the bias the gay men faced: “What matters, ” Gsburg wrote, “is that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual uple.