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• 'THIS IS NOT OVER': HARRIS WARNS SUPREME COURT MAY TARGET GAY MARRIAGE, NTRACEPTN NEXT
• GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE
• REPUBLIN NGRSNAL NDIDATE SAYS “WE NEED TO… GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE”
• ‘NEXT THG WE NEED TO DO IS GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE’: TN GOP NDIDATE SAYS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEFT TO THE STAT
• IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?
• CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT SHOULD RENSIR GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH CONTROL DECISNS NEXT AFTER OVERTURNG ROE
• TED CZ SPARKS DEMOCRAT FURY OVER GAY MARRIAGE COMMENTS: 'DISGRACE'

'THIS IS NOT OVER': HARRIS WARNS SUPREME COURT MAY TARGET GAY MARRIAGE, NTRACEPTN NEXT

More:Clarence Thomas lls for Supreme Court to 'rensir' gay marriage, ntraceptn after Roe v. Wa, cludg on that protect gay sex, same-sex marriage and married people’s e of ntraceptn, Jtice Clarence Thomas wrote a ncurrg opn released Friday.

“The next thg we need to do is go after gay marriage. ANDY OGLES: “Next thg we need to do is go after gay marriage.

Amid celebratns about the Supreme Court's cisn legalizg gay marriage, some wh the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny are also raisg ncerns about what may lie ahead for them.

GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER RIGHTS AT RISK AFTER U.S. SUPREME COURT ABORTN MOVE

What marriage may mean for gay culture Bee gay people and lbian people and the entire muny did not have the abily to get married, that was not a goal wh the muny. So you didn't grow up as a gay kid hopg for your weddg, bee jt wasn't a possibily.

And so what I do worry about is, wh this opportuny beg offered to everyone now — which is clearly a great thg — maybe we will lose some of that imagatn that the gay muny has had the past to thk about how to live different ways and, you know, really offer a crique to straight culture of how we n arrange our romantic liv. Supreme Court’s forthg opn on abortn says that the rights to gay marriage and same-sex partner timacy may be safe — but only for Monday, Poli released a document that shows the urt is poised to overturn the right to abortn cid the 1973 landmark Texas se Roe v. In the document, Jtice Samuel Alo mak clear that the cisn would apply only to abortn and that should not be read to have any effect on prev lgs upholdg gay unns and strikg down bans on gay sex.

Wa is overturnedFor those livg stat like Texas — whose lawmakers never axed nstutnally unenforceable laws banng sodomy or fg marriage as strictly a heterosexual affair — Alo’s ference to the will of lol legislatur sets the state Capol, and not the urtroom, as the fal battleground for the qutn of LGBT their holy grail attaed — strikg down the right to abortn — will nservativ go after gay marriage next?

REPUBLIN NGRSNAL NDIDATE SAYS “WE NEED TO… GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE”

”While the fabric of LGBT rights would not unravel immediately, Kreis said would be much easer for anti-gay advot to ay around the edg as Roe falls. Legislators also never removed the state’s law outlawg gay sex om statute, spe the Supreme Court’s 2003 Lawrence v.

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‘NEXT THG WE NEED TO DO IS GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE’: TN GOP NDIDATE SAYS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEFT TO THE STAT

Banng same-sex marriage will be very difficult, he said, not jt bee lns of gay Amerins have already been wed but also bee their unns have already impacted other areas of law regardg children, spoal benefs and end of life cisns. Banng same-sex terurse would be an ever harr sell if gay marriage were allowed to stand, Carpenter, he said shiftg the power to regulate abortn back to the stat shows the ailty of even the judicial cisns. Mchell told the jtic not to be squeamish about gog after gay marriage, or more, their fal cisn.

“The news is not as good for those who hope to prerve the urt-vented rights to homosexual behavr and same-sex marriage, ” Mchell wrote, after argug that terracial marriage should rema legal across the land. He nclud his brief wh a remr: The urt don’t have to overturn s earlier cisns on gay marriage and gay sexual relatns the abortn lg. r/LGBTnews is for sharg lks to recent news articl about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and all queer issu om a variety of sourc, lol, and perspectiv; along wh ments and discsns about the posts.

We saw stat before stat were movg to allow gay marriage, other stat were movg to allow civil partnerships. Amane Badhasso, a Democrat nng for Congrs to reprent Mnota's 4th ngrsnal district, wrote: "Ted Cz is openly signalg that Republins plan on gog after Gay marriage next. "You've got a ton of people who have entered to gay marriag and would be more than a ltle chaotic for the urt to do somethg that somehow dispted those marriag that have been entered to acrdance wh the law, " Cz said on the podst.

IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?

"I thk gay marriage is right on the heels of this" terms of potential legal challeng and legislative proposals, said Kierra Johnson, executive director of the Natnal LGBTQ Task Force, a natnal LGBTQ rights anizatn.

CLARENCE THOMAS: COURT SHOULD RENSIR GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH CONTROL DECISNS NEXT AFTER OVERTURNG ROE

TED CZ SPARKS DEMOCRAT FURY OVER GAY MARRIAGE COMMENTS: 'DISGRACE'