A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- THE SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be. * gay discrimination cases *
The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign. “Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
* gay discrimination cases *
“The Boy Suts asserts that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu embodied the Sut Oath and Law, particularly those reprented by the terms ‘morally straight’ and ‘clean, ’ and that the anizatn do not want to promote homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr.
Colorado Civil Rights Commissn se — which the Supreme Court sid 7-2 wh a baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple — the web signer's argument was at first merely hypothetil, that she didn't actually have any would-be ctomers who are gay.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
A feral urt granted summary judgment to the Board of Edutn of the Cy of Chigo on the discrimatn and retaliatn claims vlatn of the Age Discrimatn Employment Act, Tle IX and Illois law of a Whe, gay 40-year-old mic teacher. Swenson v. Bd. of Educ. of the Cy of Chi., 2023 BL 228732, N.D. Ill., 20cv6558, 7/5/23 * gay discrimination cases *
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.
THE SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL
Feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers, the Supreme Court led Monday. * gay discrimination cases *
’”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. 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.