Is Anthony Kennedy 'the first gay jtice'? | CNN Polics

Contents:

• KENNEDY: THE GAY MARRIAGE JTICE
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?
• ANTHONY KENNEDY AND THE FOUR SUPREME COURT LGS THAT CHANGED GAY LIFE AMERI
• WHAT WILL ANTHONY KENNEDY DO ON GAY MARRIAGE?
• THE ONE SUPREME COURT PARAGRAPH ON LOVE THAT GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS WILL NEVER FET
• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO VOTG LAW, KENNEDY IS THE KEY
• SOME PRACTIL THOUGHTS ON GAY MARRIAGE AFTER ANTHONY KENNEDY'S RETIREMENT

KENNEDY: THE GAY MARRIAGE JTICE

The newt gay rights in wears a drab black robe and got his job om Ronald Reagan.

Perhaps no Amerin polil figure has been more nsequential gay and lbian Amerins’ fight for equaly than Supreme Court Jtice Anthony M. Kennedy, the thor of Friday’s majory lg that sentially legalized gay marriage around the Uned Stat.

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

“It’s impossible to overstate his importance” to the gay rights movement, said Cala Taylor, unsel and director of Lambda Legal’s marriage project.

IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?

Kennedy’s first stand for gay rights me 1996, when he thored a 6-3 cisn emg unnstutnal a Colorado referendum that allowed discrimatn agast lbians, gays and bisexuals.

It was a signifint precursor to Friday’s opn, bee ced the 14 th Amendment’s equal-protectn clse as a source of gay rights. The gay marriage lg, known as Obergefell v. Taylor said Kennedy’s history on gay rights aligns wh the untry’s broar evolutn on those issu.

ANTHONY KENNEDY AND THE FOUR SUPREME COURT LGS THAT CHANGED GAY LIFE AMERI

But Taylor add that Kennedy’s “rpectful acknowledgment” of gay peopl’ humany “has talyzed the movement. Anthony Kennedy on Friday enshred his legacy as the gay marriage jtice. Kennedy was the thor of both opns, both s makg the se for gay rights sweepg, emotnal terms.

“Jtice Kennedy” beme a top trendg topic on Twter right after the lg was announced, wh gay rights supporters across the untry celebratg his role the lg. The plds om supporters of gay marriage is an unlikely twist the judicial reer of Kennedy, an appotee of former Print Reagan who has long played the role of iologil wild rd on the urt.

The road to Friday’s lg legalizg gay marriage was paved by the DOMA cisn, which found that the feral ernment uld not refe to regnize gay marriag allowed by the stat. In the end, he not only voted wh the urt’s liberal wg to abolish DOMA but wrote an opn that ma the se for gay rights moral terms.

WHAT WILL ANTHONY KENNEDY DO ON GAY MARRIAGE?

Jtice Anton Slia warned Kennedy’s lg was so broad spe that gay marriage bans would fall across the untry.

That warng proved prophetic, as the DOMA cisn set off a cha reactn of lower urt lgs that abolished gay marriage bans across the untry.

THE ONE SUPREME COURT PARAGRAPH ON LOVE THAT GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS WILL NEVER FET

It was those lgs that led to Friday’s landmark cisn, wh stat appealg to the hight urt the land for permissn to rtore the gay marriage bans put place by voters. The fact that stat have allowed gays and lbians to adopt children, eher as dividuals or as upl, he said, is powerful proof that gays and lbians n create stable fai.

If and when those s arise, uld aga fall to Kennedy to ci how far the natn should go fense of gay rights.

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

In a historic cisn for the gay right’s movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry. Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after the Supreme Court’s landmark lg on gay marriage.

Gay rights supporters celebrate Friday after the U.

There was ltle doubt that later that morng, this quietly powerful jtice would be havg a major say the legal, polil, and social path of gay rights movg forward. M., Kennedy kicked off the public ssn wh his eloquent majory lg strikg down a key part of a feral law that blocks a range of benefs for legally married gay and lbian upl. What’s next for gay rights movement?

FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO VOTG LAW, KENNEDY IS THE KEY

“If Bill Clton was ‘the first black print, ’ Anthony Kennedy has now firmly secured his place history as ‘the first gay jtice, ’” said Michael Dorf, a law profsor at Cornell Universy and a former Kennedy law clerk.

“Jtice Kennedy mak clear that he not only accepts, but wel the task of wrg majtic opns affirmg the digny of gay persons and upl. He has wrten majory cisns upholdg rights to homosexual upl, unrage killers, and foreign fighters held by the U. What about , ask other gay upl.

SOME PRACTIL THOUGHTS ON GAY MARRIAGE AFTER ANTHONY KENNEDY'S RETIREMENT

“Jtice Kennedy lerally transformed the liv of lbian, gay and bisexual people Ameri, ” said Jam Esseks, director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn’s LGBT and HIV Project. ”The 81-year-old jtice, who has served on the urt sce 1988, was the thor of the majory opn on four key s that transformed gay rights first was Romer v. Evans 1996, when the jtic stck down a Colorado law that prevented gay people om beg regnized as a protected class.

Texas, the 2003 cisn that ma sex between gay upl legal across the untry, even those 13 stat that still had sodomy laws on the books. “When we thk about the issu at a time when we have marriage equaly may be hard to believe that stat crimalized the sexual timacy of gay people to the 21st century, ” said Suzanne B.