Today: A Christian webse signer legally ref to work wh gay upl. Tomorrow: All kds of discrimatn are unleashed
Contents:
- WHAT MAK MONDAY’S GAY RIGHTS RULG SO HISTORIC
- 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
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
WHAT MAK MONDAY’S GAY RIGHTS RULG SO HISTORIC
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWhat Mak Monday’s Gay Rights Rulg So HistoricInspired by the civil rights movement, was s the R Smh/RtersCharl KaiserMr. And worked: The last 25 years have been a perd of extraordary progrs for the rights of gays and lbians and transgenr people Ameri. Job discrimatn agast homosexuals was first enshred by an executive orr signed by Print Dwight Eisenhower 1953, which prohibed their employment by the feral ernment and feral ntractors.
In 1957 the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn clared that was not wh s “provce” to “evaluate the social validy of laws aimed at the supprsn or elimatn of homosexuals.
Frank Kameny, a Harvard-traed astronomer, was hired by the Army Map Service 1957 — then fired, a few months later, when the Army disvered he had been arrted on a morals charge San beme the first gay feral employee to openly challenge the ernment’s policy.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
In a brief he submted to the Supreme Court 1961, he scribed the l banng homosexuals om feral employment as “a stench the nostrils of cent people, an offense agast moraly, an abandonment of reason, an afont to human digny, an improper rtrat upon proper eedom and liberty, a disgrace to any civilized society, and a vlatn of all that this natn stands for.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
As reunted a newly published bgraphy of Kameny, “The Deviant’s War, ” he was the first person to nvce homosexuals that jt bee they were gay did not mean they were sick.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Eventually he led the fight to persua the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to remove homosexualy om s list of disorrs 1973 — a victory that helped make all of the movement’s subsequent progrs would take another 23 years before the Supreme Court would issue s first important pro-gay cisn, Romer v.
Evans, which Jtice Kennedy led a six-to-three majory to throw out a Colorado state nstutnal iative strippg gay people of anti-discrimatn protectn.
JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
But that lg didn’t end discrimatn for gay people — “ jt stopped the right to take away, ” said Matt Col, who led the gay rights project at the A.