Supreme Court gay rights: A secret al between John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy and what means today | CNN Polics

Contents:

• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT JTICE LLS OUT U.S. SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG REPEAL IA
• IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

WASHINGTON — Nearly all of the Supreme Court's recent lgs on hot-button social issu e out 5-4, so Monday's 6-3 vote clarg that employers n't fire workers for beg gay or transgenr is stunng more surprisg is that the majory opn was wrten by Print Donald Tmp's first appotee to the urt — Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch me to the urt after Anton Slia died 2016, and Kavangh succeed Anthony Kennedy, who — until Monday — had wrten all of the urt's gay rights lgs until he retired 2018. “The worry is that this provis a green light to any bs owner that they n refe service to any person on the basis of their inty, whether they’re gay or lbian, or Jewish or Black, or anythg, bee they have an objectn to those sorts of people beg their bs, ” said Kathere Franke, a profsor at Columbia Law School.

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. 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.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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. “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.

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 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.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

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. A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L.

Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event. Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L.

McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE

”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms. ” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah.

“Broad exemptns to allow relig-based discrimatn hurts people of fah, too, ” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for gay Catholics, said a statement. McCoy for The New York TimGay and transgenr rights anizatns on Friday nmned the Supreme Court lg backg a Colorado webse signer’s bid to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, llg the cisn a dangero backslidg on L.

ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory. The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers. ”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl.

Colorado Civil Rights Cote for The New York TimThe Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday favor of a Colorado web signer has echo of a 2018 se about a baker who had turned away a gay uple seekg a weddg that cisn, Masterpiece Cakhop v. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn the 7-to-2 cisn 2018, seemed unable to choose between two of his re mments: He was the thor of every major Supreme Court cisn protectg gay rights unr the Constutn and also the urt’s most arnt fenr of ee speech.

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, ” he wrote, “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. After the 2020 electn, Colorado bee a center of electn nspiraci, a e embraced by some of s state is “a nice enpsulatn on what lims have been placed on the Christian right and what power and fluence they n still yield, ” William Schultz, a historian at the Universy of Chigo Divy School who is workg on a book about Christian culture Colorado Sprgs, said last 1992, voters the state passed what was nsired at the time to be an unual ballot iative prohibg Colorado om regnizg gay, lbian and bisexual people as a protected class.

GAY CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT JTICE LLS OUT U.S. SUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG REPEAL IA

That statute was the subject of a siar high-profile se, which a baker om Lakewood, Colo., Jack Phillips, cled to make a weddg ke for a gay 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of Mr. PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThe majory opn by Jtice Neil Gorsuch c a major ee speech cisn volvg gay rights: Boy Suts of Ameri v.

IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?

Another poll by Pew found that almost half of whe evangelils born after 1964 favored same-sex marriage 2017, pared to about a quarter of olr whe fah groups that have tradnally opposed gay rights now support some acmodatns for same-sex marriage. PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThree years ago, Jtice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote today's opn favor of the webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, was the thor of a very different opn om the urt, lg that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgenr employe om workplace discrimatn.

Emphasizg her view that prohibg bs om discrimatg agast gay people is a regulatn of nduct, not speech, she wr: “The majory’s repeated votn of this Orwellian thought policg is revealg of jt how much misunrstands this se. The New Republic published an article reportg that the Colorado webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, and whose challenge to Colorado’s antidiscrimatn law took this se to the Supreme Court, may not have received an actual requt om a gay uple to create a weddg 30, 2023, 10:17 a.

ET Ruth GrahamCoverg relignThe Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented the Colorado signer who did not want to make a webse celebratg gay marriage, praised the lg. ETHere’s what to know about the ee speech a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

”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 Christians, who celebrated the lg on Friday as a victory for relig dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor lled the lg “profoundly wrong, ” argug that the Colorado anti-discrimatn law “targets nduct, not speech, for regulatn, and the act of discrimatn has never nstuted protected exprsn unr the First Amendment.

At the same time, the lg limed the abily of the ernments to enforce anti-discrimatn 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 orientatn. Xavier Becerra sce payg for preventn servic like PrEP enurag homosexual behavr, which his clients reject as addn to queer patients, straight people e PrEP dgs as well. The Supreme Court Collegium has reerated s November 2021 remendatn to appot senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, as a judge of the Delhi High Court.

Related Articl He was part of a team of lawyers that reprented Sunil Mehra and Navtej Sgh Johar, the now well-known petners the historic se which the Supreme Court (SC) stck down the lonial-era Sec 377, which crimalised homosexualy.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

In a letter dated 1 April 2021, the law mister stated that though homosexualy stands -crimalised India, nohels same-sex marriage remas bereft of regnn eher dified statutory law or undified personal law India. The Centre also apprehend that given Kirpal’s “attachment” to the e of gay rights, the possibily of Kirpal’s bias and prejudice nnot be led out, Live Law reports. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAlong Wh Conservative Triumphs, Signs of New Ctn at Supreme CourtChief Jtice Roberts livered both landmark victori for the right and signifint lgs which he fed allianc wh the liberal Supreme Court’s story this term is nsirably more plited than the narrative of a nservative juggernt that emerged the prev Holston/The New York TimThe Supreme Court end s term this week faiar fashn, issug blockbter nservative cisns on affirmative actn, gay rights and stunt loans that divid along partisan l, wh the urt’s three Democratic appote not que as stunng as last June’s cisns elimatg the right to abortn and expandg gun rights, the new lgs were of a piece wh them and were a further ditn that the urt remas receptive to the nservative legal movement’s agenda, cludg cuttg back on a progrsive nceptn of civil rights and tratg Print Bin’s the entire story of the most recent term is nsirably more plited than that of the prev one, which had seemed to tablish an unyieldg nservative juggernt characterized by impatience and ambn — and built to last.

The group filed briefs 18 argued s and was on the wng si 11 of Cole, the group’s natnal legal director, said loss the affirmative actn and gay rights s were “unprecented setbacks for equaly.

”ImageThe Supreme Court issued blockbter nservative cisns on affirmative actn, stunt loans and gay rights, but the urt’s liberals end up the majory several signifint Schaff/The New York TimMost of the data this article ncerns signed cisns issued by the urt after full briefg and argument.

WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.

“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds.