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
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. * supreme court 1986 gay rights *
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.
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. 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. 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.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
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. “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.
In 2020, Gorsuch livered a massive w to the LGBTQ muny when he livered the majory opn a se that extend feral protectns to gay, lbian and transgenr workers. 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.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
’”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.
JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
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.
”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn. The dissentg jtic, he wrote, foced on “the stris gay Amerins have ma towards securg equal jtice unr law. 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.