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Contents:
- I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
- TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
- THE MYSTER CASE OF THE FAKE GAY MARRIAGE WEBSE, THE REAL STRAIGHT MAN, AND THE SUPREME COURT
- SUPREME COURT L GAY UPL NATNWI HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY
I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
The hight-profile Supreme Court w for gay and lbian rights, a cisn wrten for history, stopped short of what advot really wanted. Where do that leave the movement? * gay marriage cases before supreme court *
When Print Barack Obama threw his admistratn’s support behd a challenge to Proposn 8, the gay-marriage ban enacted by California voters 2008, his Jtice Department troduced what amounted to a bizarre promise.
Proposed that the Supreme Court le that stat like California, which had extend gay men’s and lbians’ “marriage le” alternativ like domtic partnership or civil unn, were vlatn of the nstutnal prohibn agast “separate but equal”—but was fe to offer no regnn at all. The proposal was signed to ensure that no state would have to beg validatg gay or lbian fai unr the force of a urt orr.
TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
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 cases before supreme court *
But a simultaneo lg by the urt that the Defense of Marriage Act was unnstutnal dramatilly changed gay-rights ligators’ view of what was possible. Acrdg to the urt’s applitn of the equal-protectn clse, such a termatn would subject not only the marriage bans but a whole range of feral, state and lol laws that disadvantaged gay men and lbians (and possibly transgenred people, as well) to a higher level of judicial scty.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
Christian webse signer says she received email requt om same-sex uple but ‘thor’ says he did not send – and is not gay * gay marriage cases before supreme court *
Yet Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who had prevly wrten three watershed opns that had helped to tablish the full cizenship of gay men and lbians, had nsistently cled to see the s on those terms. He knew he was wrg for history, and that passage immediately adorned merchandise—to this day Etsy remas filled wh posters and noterds featurg Kennedy’s words—and is now often read at weddg ceremoni for both straight and gay upl. To some extent, this was a reflectn of the broar succs that gay-marriage mpaigners had had the polil sphere.
THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
The Court led favor of gay rights as early as 1958. But s cisns haven't always sid wh the LGBT muny. * gay marriage cases before supreme court *
While a feral urt ced Obergefell 2016 as a basis to strike down Mississippi’s ban on adoptn by gay upl, s impact has been barely felt areas beyond fay law.
Ined, the years sce, gay-rights advot and ligators have been fightg many of the same issu they nonted years, even s, earlier.
Clayton County, the Supreme Court led that gay men, lbians, bisexual and transgenr people uld already not be nied work based on the law’s cln of “sex” as a basis on which employment discrimatn was prohibed. As a rult, some gay-rights activists and lawyers look back at 2015 what-might-have-been terms.
THE MYSTER CASE OF THE FAKE GAY MARRIAGE WEBSE, THE REAL STRAIGHT MAN, AND THE SUPREME COURT
* gay marriage cases before supreme court *
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. The cisn has already been hailed by the polil right as a historic w for ee speech and cried by the left as an unthkable setback for gay rights.
Kg’s words even more relevant is that isn’t jt gay upl who might be turned away by a bs owner who believ their marriage is a “false” one: anyone n ce ee speech as an exce to avoid givg Black people, women, the elrly, or even a child of Indian immigrants like me the same rights and accs to the marketplace that Whe cisgenr heterosexual male Amerins have.
SUPREME COURT L GAY UPL NATNWI HAVE A RIGHT TO MARRY
For while those power seek to discrimate agast gay Amerins for beg gay, Ain Amerins for beg Black, Asian Amerins for beg Asian and Jewish Amerins for beg Jewish, the tth we nnot lose sight of is that we are all Amerins. The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign. The first se will nsir the dismissals of a unty ernment employee and a skydivg stctor, who were fired for beg gay.