In a momento day for civil rights, the Supreme Court of the Uned Stat led Friday that the Constutn effectively grants all Amerin cizens the right to get married—cludg same-sex upl. All The Celebri Who Are Thrilled About the Supreme Court's Decisn to Legalize Gay Marriage The 5-to-4 cisn is a landmark w for the gay rights' movement. Prr to the cisn, gay marriage was regnized at the state level 37 stat and the District of Colombia—see a map here. In the majory opn, Jtice Anthony M. Kennedy wr: "No unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay. ... [The challengers] ask for equal digny the ey of the law. The Constutn grants them that right." Here's how polis are celebratg on social media: Proud to celebrate a historic victory for marriage equaly—& the urage & termatn of LGBT Amerins who ma possible. -H— Hillary Clton (@HillaryClton) June 26, 2015 Today is a big step our march toward equaly. Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else. #LoveWs— Print Obama (@POTUS) June 26, 2015 Congratulatns to all who
Contents:
- THE SUPREME COURT DECLAR GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
- THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
- AS THE SUPREME COURT TARGETS GAY MARRIAGE, WE MT BEE MORE RADIL, NOT LS
- ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
THE SUPREME COURT DECLAR GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT
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For same-sex upl the 13 stat that didn't prevly regnize gay marriage, the lg will mean major chang some key areas:Adoptn RightsIn the stat where same-sex upl weren't allowed to marry, they often weren't allowed to adopt children together; one parent would do the adoptg, and some s, the send parents' rights were limbo.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * gay marriage to supreme court *
) "That's gog to feel amazg, " says Kirsten, who liv wh her wife of six years Geia, where their marriage (performed at Cy Hall New York Cy) wasn't prevly ProtectnIt's gog to be harr to be anti-gay: Most stat, for example, have laws place that bar discrimatn on the grounds of maral stat—but stat didn't prevly regnize gay marriage, those laws didn't apply to same-sex upl.
I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
After Roe and abortn, is Supreme Court's Obergefell gay marriage lg safe? Will Clarence Thomas end same-sex marriage protectns? Not necsarily. * gay marriage to supreme court *
(This was particularly problematic for a sick person wh an anti-gay fay who he may not even have a relatnship wh. DivorceIn the past, if you lived a state that didn't regnize gay marriage, that state wouldn't grant you a gay divorce.
THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
'The View' star Alyssa Farah Griff revealed why she agre wh the Supreme Court's lg favor of a signer who do not support gay marriage. * gay marriage to supreme court *
That meant that upl the middle of break-up wouldn't get the benefs of divorce laws, which are meant to protect a uple and their assets as they spl—unls they moved and tablished rincy (which n take months to years) a state that regnized gay marriage. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. 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. "Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse.
AS THE SUPREME COURT TARGETS GAY MARRIAGE, WE MT BEE MORE RADIL, NOT LS
As a nservative Supreme Court sets s sights on gay marriage, 's time for queer rights activists to double down on radil polics. * gay marriage to supreme court *
"You don't know somebody's gay unls you ask them, so if the web signer says, 'Um, we're booked up, ' they don't have to al wh that other stuff this woman ma this about.
" Goldberg prsed on, tellg Griff, "This is about beg able to say, 'I don't want to do a gay person's webse, ' that's what this is about. The lg is fal and nnot be has fallen behd s global peers regnizg gay and transgenr rights.
‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
It is the only member of the Group of 7 natns that has not legalized same-sex month, the Japane Parliament passed a bill that outlawed “unfair discrimatn” and promoted “unrstandg” of gay and transgenr people, a measure that rights advot emed sufficient and watered down om a bill submted natn’s urts have been more sympathetic to gay and transgenr rights.
Ne stat have laws banng transgenr people om g bathrooms or other facili that align wh their genr inty at least some settgs, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a thk liberatns over the bill promotg unrstandg of gay and transgenr people the Diet, as Japan’s Parliament is known, nservative policians raised ncerns that the law might enable men to barge to women’s bathrooms and asslt Tuday after the cisn was released, some nservativ objected.
”She said pendg on how the language and spe of the cisn is terpreted, the se uld affect other rights for gay and transgenr people. Activists said that the Supreme Court cisn uld help nudge other pani and lol ernments to change their own l erng the e of rtrooms by transgenr lg uld help “lol ernments to make their own policy or their own ordanc, and many pani will follow the judgment, ” said Gon Matsunaka, a director and adviser to Pri Hoe Tokyo, a support center for the gay and transgenr muny. Hodg, the landmark lg that clared gay marriage the law of the land.