Gay Marriage: As Supreme Court Turns Right, Go Left

Contents:

• THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL
• AS THE SUPREME COURT TARGETS GAY MARRIAGE, WE MT BEE MORE RADIL, NOT LS
• 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
• THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL

From strikg down a Texas law that crimalised "sodomy" to legalisg gay marriage across the natn, the directn of US jurispnce seemed was before Jtice Anthony Kennedy, the thor of several of those landmark cisns, retired and Donald Tmp, wh two appotments, gave the urt a cidly more nservative bent.

AS THE SUPREME COURT TARGETS GAY MARRIAGE, WE MT BEE MORE RADIL, NOT LS

Image source, CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty ImagThe top urt the US has led that employers who fire workers for beg gay or transgenr are breakg the untry's civil rights a 6-3 cisn, the Supreme Court said feral law, which prohibs discrimatn based on sex, should be unrstood to clu sexual orientatn and genr lg is a major w for LGBT workers and their even though the urt has bee more nservative. 'An emotnal day'Sean K Hl, Palm Sprgs, CaliforniaToday's Supreme Court lg brought me to a gay man lucky enough to live California and origally e om New York I've never had to personally worry about losg a job or not beg hired simply bee of my sexual orientatn.

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

It's difficult to overstate the signifince of the the urt is tablishg a long history of cisns expandg gay rights, this is the first time spoke directly about the legal protectns for transgenr the lg out jt days after the Tmp admistratn announced was removg transgenr health-surance protectns only puts the issue stark relief. "The only qutn before is whether an employer who fir someone for beg homosexual or transgenr has discharged or otherwise discrimated agast that dividual 'bee of such dividual's sex', " he answer, he said, was "clear" - even if such a scenar had not been anticipated when the law was wrten. "It is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex, " he nservative jtic opposed the lg: Samuel Alo, Clarence Thomas and Brett are the s?

Media ptn, A taxi service tryg to keep trans people safeDonald Zarda, a skydivg stctor om New York who died a skydivg accint 2014, had filed one of the other was dismissed after jokg wh a female client wh whom he was tanm-divg not to worry about the close physil ntact bee he was "100% gay". The pany mataed he was fired bee he shared personal rmatn wh a client, not bee he was gay, but a urt New York led Mr Zarda's Bostock, a former child welfare servic -ordator om Geia, lost his job after jog a gay recreatnal softball league, thereby publicly revealg his sexual orientatn. Mr Bostock lost his discrimatn se a feral urt key moments US LGBT history Jan 1958 - US Supreme Court l for first time favour of LGBT rights, sayg an LGBT magaze, emed obscene by the FBI and postal service, had First Amendment rightsJuly 1961 - Illois be first state to crimalise homosexualyJune 1969 - Protts beg after police raid Stonewall Inn New York Cy, now seen as start of gay rights movementSept 1996 - Print Clton f marriage as unn between "one man and one woman"June 2003 - US Supreme Court term sodomy laws to be unnstutnalOct 2009 - Democratic Print Obama signs Matthew Shepard and Jam Byrd Jr Hate Crim Law, expandg hate crime laws to clu sexual orientatnJune 2015 - US Supreme Court l 5-4 that same-sex marriage is legal across the untryJune 2016 - The Pentagon lifts s ban on transgenr Amerins serve the aryMarch 2018 - Republin Print Tmp issu a policy banng transgenr Amerins om servg aryMore on this story.

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

“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.

For nearly three s, the urt has expand the rights of LGBTQ people, most notably givg same-sex upl the right to marry 2015 and announcg five years later a cisn wrten by Gorsuch that a landmark civil rights law also protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om employment the latt cisn, however, Gorsuch said that a lg agast Smh would allow the ernment “to force all manner of artists, speechwrers, and others whose servic volve speech to speak what they do not believe on pa of penalty. ”Sotomayor referenced the urt’s history wh the issue of gay rights her dissent, wrg: “The LGBT rights movement has ma historic stris, and I am proud of the role this Court has recently played that history. The immediate, symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat, ” she wrote at another as has expand gay rights, however, the urt has been reful to say those wh differg relig views need to be rpected.

The belief that marriage n only be between one man and one woman is an ia that “long has been held — and ntu to be held — good fah by reasonable and scere people here and throughout the world, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote the urt’s gay marriage cisn. AIDS vicly targeted the most polilly radil and sexually revolutnary among gay men, sentially leavg behd wh “dull normals” terted domticy and assiatnism over any semblance of queer radilism.

THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE

“[Radil queers] were vulnerable precisely bee they were willg to experiment sexually and weren’t hung up on old macho norms, bee they were urban and fearls and proud and promiscuo, ” Whe said Stat of Dire: Travels Gay Ameri.

“Ours is a moment fed by a strikg amount of cultural amnia and predited on an unrstandg of gayns as a mundane blogil difference whout any cultural ponent to speak of—at least not mixed pany. “Elected officials pated gay men as oversexed animals pable of rpondg to the crisis, ” Iona College Profsor Timothy Lyle said as part of his rearch on “digny takg” durg the AIDS Crisis, Bat College reports. “The [New York Cy] bathhoe closur perpetuated [a narrative of gay] culpabily, igned pretty ser divisns wh the gay and lbian muni, and produced wh gay men, I thk, a ep distst and even fear of ernment—and one another, to be hont.

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

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.

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. “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.