Ameri’s Most Important Gay-Rights Speech? | The New Yorker

Contents:

• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
• HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
• AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• GAY RIGHTS SPEECHPHIL SNIRON LGBT RIGHTS 1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGAY RIGHTS SPEECH LYRICSSEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY9. COUNCIL BILL 2012-226AUGT 13, 2012[REV. DR. PHIL SNIR]GOOD EVENG, MY NAME IS THE REV. DR. PHIL SNIR. I WAS BORN AND RAISED SPRGFIELD, MISSOURI AND I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENG SUPPORT OF THIS ORDANCE. I WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR CY; ANY ACCURATE READG OF THE BIBLE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT GAY RIGHTS GO AGAST THE PLA TTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, AS ONE PREACHER WARNS MAN, AND OVERSTEPPG THE BOUNDARY L GOD HAS DRAWN BY MAKG SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LBIANS HAS TAKEN ANOTHER STEP THE DIRECTN OF VG THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD UPON OUR LAND. THIS STEP OF GAY RIGHTS IS BUT ANOTHER STEPPG STONE TOWARD THE IMMORALY AND LAWLSNS THAT WOULD BE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LAST DAYS.THIS ORDANCE REPRENTS A NIAL OF ALL THAT WE BELIEVE AND NO ONE SHOULD FORCE ON . IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T RE ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ’S OUR RIGHTS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY. AND UN-CHRISTIAN VIEWS WILL BE FORCED ON AND OUR CHILDREN FOR WE WILL BE FORCED TO GO AGAST OUR PERSONAL MORALS.OUTSI ERNMENT AGENTS ARE ENAVORG TO DISTURB GOD’S TABLISHED ORR THAT IS NOT LE WH THE BIBLE. DO NOT LET PEOPLE LEAD YOU ASTRAY.WHEN YOU N TO NFLICT WH GOD’S TABLISHED ORR YOU HAVE TROUBLE. YOU DO NOT PRODUCE HARMONY. YOU PRODUCE STCTN AND TROUBLE AND OUR CY IS THE GREATT DANGER THAN HAS EVER BEEN S HISTORY.THE REASON IS THAT WE’VE GOTTEN AWAY OM THE BIBLE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. YOU SEE THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN – I’M SORRY – HOLD ON!THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN IS CLEARLY TABLISHED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTUR BOTH BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.(ONE MUTE.)I’M SORRY, I’VE BROUGHT THE WRONG NOT WH ME THIS EVENG. I’VE BORROWED MY ARGUMENT OM THE WRONG CENTURY. IT TURNS OUT WHAT I HAVE BEEN READG TO YOU THIS WHOLE TIME IS DIRECT QUOT OM WHE PREACHERS OM THE 1950′S AND THE 1960′S, ALL SUPPORT OF RACIAL SEGREGATN.ALL I HAVE DONE IS SIMPLY TAKE OUT THE PHRASE "RACIAL SEGREGATN" AND SUBSTUTED WH THE PHRASE "GAY RIGHTS." I GUS THE ARGUMENTS I’VE BEEN HEARG AROUND SPRGFIELD LATELY SOUND SO SIAR TO THE THAT I GOT THEM NFED. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. I HOPE YOU WILL STAND ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. THANK YOU.(ARE THERE ANY QUTNS?)THANK YOU.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌LGBT RIGHTS (2013)LGBT RIGHTS1. THE HOPE SPEECHBRIEF OF AMICI CURAE CHRIS KLUWE AND BRENDON AYANBAJO SUPPORT OF RPONNTSDEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)ROLUTN FOR MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN 2013BRIEF FOR THE UNED STAT AS AMIC CURIAE SUPPORTG RPONNTSPROPOSN 8 (CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE PROTECTN ACT)LAWRENCE V. TEXAS (DISSENT)OPEN LETTER TO EMMETT C. BURNS, JR.MARRIAGE EQUALY/COMG OUT SPEECHHRC AMERINS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALYGAY RIGHTS SPEECHCREDSTAGSNON-MICNEWS EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

The two most visible figur behd the legislative manvers were John Briggs, a state Senator California, who sought to remove openly lbian and gay teachers wh Proposn 6 (the phrase “public homosexual” repeats throughout the proposn); and Ana Bryant, whose “Save Our Children” anizatn succsfully helped overturn equal rights ordanc Miami, Florida; Eugene, Oregon; Wicha, Kansas; and St. If you do not speak out, if you rema silence, if you do not lift up your voice agast Briggs, then I ll upon lbians and gay men om all over the natn, your natn, to gather Washgton one year om now on that natnal day of eedom, the fourth of July…the fourth of July, 1979…to gather Washgton on that very same spot where over a ago Dr.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

Print Obama ed the ocsn to make the first direct reference to gay-rights an Ingural Addrs, and he did so wh a power and forthrightns we have not heard before, even om two-thirds of the way to the speech, Obama referred to Stonewall, a gay bar where, 1969, a police raid provoked a rt, the same sentence as Sene Falls and Selma—th parg the women’s and Ain-Amerin civil-rights movements to the gay-rights stggle. Had he stopped there, would have been historic—particularly g om the first Ain-Amerin Print—but, keepg wh the tradn of policians who refer to gay-rights obliquely or wh words, stoppg short of the Print ntued:Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law—for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as only was this a ll to end discrimatn, but an unambiguo argument for the regnn of same-sex marriage across the untry.

Y, twelve stat (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Rho Island, Vermont and Wisns), the District of Columbia, many municipali, and hundreds of bs and universi have enacted laws that protect gay, lbian and bisexual people om employment discrimatn.

AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?

Sce they n not marry, the partners of lbians and gay men are not next of k tim of crisis; they are not nsulted on ccial medil cisns; they are not given leave to re for each other; they are not each other’s legal heirs, if, like most Amerins, they do not have wills.

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage).

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

GAY RIGHTS

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

GAY RIGHTS SPEECHPHIL SNIRON LGBT RIGHTS 1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGAY RIGHTS SPEECH LYRICSSEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY9. COUNCIL BILL 2012-226AUGT 13, 2012[REV. DR. PHIL SNIR]GOOD EVENG, MY NAME IS THE REV. DR. PHIL SNIR. I WAS BORN AND RAISED SPRGFIELD, MISSOURI AND I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENG SUPPORT OF THIS ORDANCE. I WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR CY; ANY ACCURATE READG OF THE BIBLE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT GAY RIGHTS GO AGAST THE PLA TTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, AS ONE PREACHER WARNS MAN, AND OVERSTEPPG THE BOUNDARY L GOD HAS DRAWN BY MAKG SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LBIANS HAS TAKEN ANOTHER STEP THE DIRECTN OF VG THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD UPON OUR LAND. THIS STEP OF GAY RIGHTS IS BUT ANOTHER STEPPG STONE TOWARD THE IMMORALY AND LAWLSNS THAT WOULD BE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LAST DAYS.THIS ORDANCE REPRENTS A NIAL OF ALL THAT WE BELIEVE AND NO ONE SHOULD FORCE ON . IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T RE ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ’S OUR RIGHTS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY. AND UN-CHRISTIAN VIEWS WILL BE FORCED ON AND OUR CHILDREN FOR WE WILL BE FORCED TO GO AGAST OUR PERSONAL MORALS.OUTSI ERNMENT AGENTS ARE ENAVORG TO DISTURB GOD’S TABLISHED ORR THAT IS NOT LE WH THE BIBLE. DO NOT LET PEOPLE LEAD YOU ASTRAY.WHEN YOU N TO NFLICT WH GOD’S TABLISHED ORR YOU HAVE TROUBLE. YOU DO NOT PRODUCE HARMONY. YOU PRODUCE STCTN AND TROUBLE AND OUR CY IS THE GREATT DANGER THAN HAS EVER BEEN S HISTORY.THE REASON IS THAT WE’VE GOTTEN AWAY OM THE BIBLE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. YOU SEE THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN – I’M SORRY – HOLD ON!THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN IS CLEARLY TABLISHED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTUR BOTH BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.(ONE MUTE.)I’M SORRY, I’VE BROUGHT THE WRONG NOT WH ME THIS EVENG. I’VE BORROWED MY ARGUMENT OM THE WRONG CENTURY. IT TURNS OUT WHAT I HAVE BEEN READG TO YOU THIS WHOLE TIME IS DIRECT QUOT OM WHE PREACHERS OM THE 1950′S AND THE 1960′S, ALL SUPPORT OF RACIAL SEGREGATN.ALL I HAVE DONE IS SIMPLY TAKE OUT THE PHRASE "RACIAL SEGREGATN" AND SUBSTUTED WH THE PHRASE "GAY RIGHTS." I GUS THE ARGUMENTS I’VE BEEN HEARG AROUND SPRGFIELD LATELY SOUND SO SIAR TO THE THAT I GOT THEM NFED. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. I HOPE YOU WILL STAND ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. THANK YOU.(ARE THERE ANY QUTNS?)THANK YOU.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌LGBT RIGHTS (2013)LGBT RIGHTS1. THE HOPE SPEECHBRIEF OF AMICI CURAE CHRIS KLUWE AND BRENDON AYANBAJO SUPPORT OF RPONNTSDEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)ROLUTN FOR MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN 2013BRIEF FOR THE UNED STAT AS AMIC CURIAE SUPPORTG RPONNTSPROPOSN 8 (CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE PROTECTN ACT)LAWRENCE V. TEXAS (DISSENT)OPEN LETTER TO EMMETT C. BURNS, JR.MARRIAGE EQUALY/COMG OUT SPEECHHRC AMERINS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALYGAY RIGHTS SPEECHCREDSTAGSNON-MICNEWS EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. I worry about the future of our cy; any accurate readg of the Bible should make clear that gay rights go agast the pla tth of the word of God, as one preacher warns man, and oversteppg the boundary l God has drawn by makg special rights for gays and lbians has taken another step the directn of vg the judgement of God upon our land.

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. 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. 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.

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

Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah. ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory.

The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers. ”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl.

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, ” he wrote, “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. After the 2020 electn, Colorado bee a center of electn nspiraci, a e embraced by some of s state is “a nice enpsulatn on what lims have been placed on the Christian right and what power and fluence they n still yield, ” William Schultz, a historian at the Universy of Chigo Divy School who is workg on a book about Christian culture Colorado Sprgs, said last 1992, voters the state passed what was nsired at the time to be an unual ballot iative prohibg Colorado om regnizg gay, lbian and bisexual people as a protected class.