California voters to be asked to affirm gay marriage on 2024 ballot - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: WILL LEAD TO THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN GAY MARRIAGE?
• SUPREME COURT RUL GAY MARRIAGE BANS ARE UNNSTUTNAL
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY MARRIAGE

RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: WILL LEAD TO THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN GAY MARRIAGE?

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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.

SUPREME COURT RUL GAY MARRIAGE BANS ARE UNNSTUTNAL

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. “The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law. Unfortunately for Smh, to refe service to members of the public bee they are gay is illegal: Colorado bans bs, shops and other plac of public acmodatn om discrimatg on the basis of sexual orientatn. If turns out that 303 Creative do not have a ee speech right to refe service to same-sex upl, publishg a statement on s webse that will not provi weddg servic to gay and lbian upl uld be characterized as discrimatory nduct that triggers no ee speech the same time, nduct may exprs a msage and therefore unt as nstutnally protected “speech.

In this se, the pellg need is obv: to end discrimatn agast gay and lbian upl public spac. If the urt fds for 303 Creative, this right to discrimate agast gay and lbian people won’t be limed to those whose relign nmns same-sex marriage. Potentially, any such pany hostile to gays or lbians uld argue that takg their picture or prtg an vatn or actg as their lawyer or agent or unselor would exprs approval of homosexualy.

NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG

There is no rolutn of the scty qutn—that is, whether laws targetg gays mt be subject to pecially strgent judicial scty. The “liberty” protected by the due procs clse, Kennedy explas, protects gay upl’ fundamental right to marriage.

And the equal protectn clse bars the ernment om sglg out a specific group—here, gays—and privg them of certa rights.

For gay rights advot, the date of the cisn is pecially notable. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

GAY MARRIAGE

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. "Gay sex is banned Namibia unr a rarely-enforced 1927 sodomy the southern Ain untry has seen a flurry of urt s on the rights of same-sex upl to marry, bee parents and immigrate recent May, the Supreme Court said that same-sex marriag ntracted abroad between Namibian cizens and foreign spo should be lg enraged social nservativ the sparsely populated, largely Christian untry, a popular tourist statn rich wildlife and natural legal experts and opposn policians have utned that by directly ntradictg a Supreme Court lg the new law might be unnstutnal -- and challenge the mocratic foundatns of the untry.

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. 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.