What Each Supreme Court Jtice Has Said About Gay Marriage

Contents:

• THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN

“It would be a ep psychologil and emotnal blow to a lot of gay, lbian, and bisexual people to be told that even if their state has to regnize a marriage formed out of the state, that their state nohels disapprov of their relatnship and effectively nsirs them send class cizens, ” says Michael Boui, a law profsor at the Universy of Buffalo. Kennedy, then the center of the High Court, rejected the optns before him, cidg agast sidg wh a same-sex uple who had been nied a ke for their Colorado weddg receptn and agast sidg wh the baker who said his oven was off-lims to gay upl. Jt a few weeks ago, when Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the natn’s hight-rankg Senate-nfirmed gay member of the Bin Admistratn, joed TIME’s Washgton Bure for a wi-rangg nversatn, he was blunt: “I mean, Roe fell and that was the law of the land for longer than I’ve been alive.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

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. Axs, "Ted Cz latt Republin to ph back agast SCOTUS' gay marriage lg, " July 17, 2022.

There are several reasons why gay marriage is never gog away, at least for the foreeable future. As Walter Olson wrote for the CATO Instute, “gay marriage isn’t gog anywhere, ” even a nservative Court. Days after his electn, Print Tmp went on “60 Mut” said of the gay‐​marriage legal s: “They’ve been settled, and I’m fe wh that.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

Gay marriage happened, life went on. Last term the Court led 6-3 that gay and transgenr dividuals are protected om discrimatn by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The fact that they did so is a strong ditn that the Court is not eager to lim the rights of gay and transgenr people.

Conservative Jtice Clarence Thomas said the Court should now "rensir" gay marriage. “We support the fn of marriage as a God-ordaed, legal, and moral venant only between one blogil man and one blogil woman, ” says the party’s official platform, which also characteriz homosexualy as “abnormal” and rejects Print Joe Bin’s 2020 printial w. ”Last week, Bin warned of the “ultra-MAGA agenda attackg fai and our eedoms, ” om schools troducg “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn or banng genr-nfirmg re for mors.

“If this were to happen, the urt would be movg opposn to a public opn trend that has shown creasg support, ” the report if were up to the Texas Republin Party, would not stop platform lls homosexualy an “abnormal liftyle choice, ” and oppos “any crimal or civil penalti agast those who oppose homosexualy out of fah, nvictn, or belief tradnal valu.