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Contents:
- RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: WILL LEAD TO THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN GAY MARRIAGE?
- BIN LAW CREAT PATH TO OVERTURNG GAY MARRIAGE RULG, MISTRY BOASTS
- GAY MARRIAGE IS HERE TO STAY, EVEN WH A CONSERVATIVE COURT
RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: WILL LEAD TO THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN GAY MARRIAGE?
A nservative law firm has speculated that if the Rpect for Marriage Act is signed to law by Print Joe Bin, uld actually lead to the Uned Stat Supreme Court overturng s earlier lg legalizg gay marriage natnwi. * gay marriage law overturned *
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. Wh over 13 ln vot st, California voters approve Proposn 8 on November 4, 2008, amendg the state’s nstutn to ban same-sex months earlier, May 2008, the California Supreme Court had emed the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, makg California the send state the untry to legalize gay marriage. Californian voters received robolls om former print Bill Clton askg them to vote no on the measure, while actors om the televisn show “Ugly Betty” argued Spanish-language TV spots that votg no “is not about beg gay or straight, ” but “about beg Amerin.
BIN LAW CREAT PATH TO OVERTURNG GAY MARRIAGE RULG, MISTRY BOASTS
”The Protect Marriage mpaign supportg Proposn 8 nstantly voked the “far-reachg nsequenc” of legal gay marriage, particularly the implitn that school curriculums would be required to teach that gay marriage is “the same as tradnal marriage. ” Pollster David Fleischer, his analysis of the electn rults, found that the greatt shift toward “Y” among uncid voters was “among parents wh children unr 18 livg at home—many of them whe Democrats, ” who feared the effects of legal gay marriage on their children’s public tn.
READ MORE: The Supreme Court Rulgs That Have Shaped Gay Rights AmeriAlso on This Day History November | 4. Supporters of gay marriage rally after the U. | Rters/Joshua RobertsA nservative law firm has speculated that if the so-lled Rpect for Marriage Act is signed to law by Print Joe Bin, uld actually lead to the Uned Stat Supreme Court overturng s earlier lg legalizg gay marriage a statement released Monday, the Liberty Counsel mented on Congrs' recently passed bill legalizg same-sex marriage, th difyg the 2015 Supreme Court lg Obergefell v.
Mary and Sharon Bishop-Baldw were jubilant after wng a long fight for the right to wed eight years after tyg the knot — on the day they won their lawsu challengg a state ban on gay marriage — and seven years after the U. Wa, which had guaranteed abortn rights, Jtice Clarence Thomas suggted a ncurrg opn that the cisn upholdg gay marriage should also be rensired.
GAY MARRIAGE IS HERE TO STAY, EVEN WH A CONSERVATIVE COURT
“It’s ridiculo to thk that anybody this untry who has legally married one place uld sudnly be unmarried another, ” Bishop-Baldw the uple filed their 2004 Oklahoma lawsu, 76% of state voters had jt approved a nstutnal ban on gay marriage. A year later, the high urt cid another se that all stat had to issue marriage licens to gay upl.
A nservative anizatn is makg the se that Congrs' passage of the Rpect for Marriage Act (RFMA) "n actually create the perfect scenar" to overturn gay marriage rights. A nservative law firm believ the Supreme Court uld ultimately overturn gay rights due to a more nservative majory when pared to 2015. Lee's amendment the Senate ought to serve as further nfirmatn of this Strategi fundraisg director Terrell Fner, who works to help get grassroots polil ndidat elected, is gay and told Newsweek that passg the RFMA affords the LGBTQ+ muny more eedom and liberti.
"Members of the [gay] muny and our alli are all breathg a sigh of relief bee we all thought by and large there was a very real eedoms are not guaranteed. What happens if gay marriage is overturned?