I Was Part of 303 Creative's Case. I Back Gay Marriage—but SCOTUS Is Right

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

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.

) "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. (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.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

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.

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I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

" 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 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.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

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. By the late 70s, HIV had arrived the Uned Stat; by the early ’80s, AIDS began ravagg the Uned Stat’ queer muni, particularly among gay men.

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

Gay wrer Edmund Whe lived through this era and spoke no uncerta terms about s impact on queer rights. 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.

“[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. “A whole segment of the gay world—the bravt and most unnventnal—was doomed, along wh untls gay performers and artists.

And was this meek versn of gay rights, this rabow palism future laid out by the “dull normals, ” that ultimately gave Obergefell.

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

“In Whe’s view, then, ’s largely bee of the historil pture of AIDS that we have the gay rights disurse of the mid-’90s till the prent day, ” Slate’s J.