I Was Part of 303 Creative's Case. I Back Gay Marriage—but SCOTUS Is Right

Contents:

• SCOTUS RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE WILL HELP CUT THE FERAL DEFIC
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• TED CZ: SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CISN WAS ‘CLEARLY WRONG’

SCOTUS RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE WILL HELP CUT THE FERAL DEFIC

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court clared Friday that same-sex upl have a right to marry anywhere the Uned Stat, a historic culmatn of two s of ligatn over gay marriage and gay rights generally. Gay rights supporters cheered, danced and wept outsi the urt after the cisn, which put an exclamatn pot on breathtakg chang the natn's social norms. Jt two years ago, the Supreme Court stck down part of the feral anti-gay marriage law that nied a range of ernment benefs to legally married same-sex upl.

Wdsor did not addrs the validy of state marriage bans, but urts across the untry, wh few exceptns, said s logic pelled them to validate state laws that prohibed gay and lbian upl om marryg. There are an timated 390, 000 married same-sex upl the Uned Stat, acrdg to UCLA's Williams Instute, which tracks the mographics of gay and lbian Amerins.

The Jtice Department's cisn to stop fendg the feral anti-marriage law 2011 was an important moment for gay rights, and Obama clared his support for same-sex marriage 2012. In a landmark cisn, the natn's hight urt on Friday morng legalized gay marriage all 50 stat -- the qutn now is will gay upl pay more or dra money out of the feral treasury?

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

However, many of those benefs are valid the 13 stat where gay marriage is illegal: Arkansas, Kentucky, Geia, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oh, Texas and Tennsee. But the Supreme Court uld change all that, meang, gay upl those 13 stat uld see chang to a range of feral benefs, cludg Social Secury, Medire, Mediid, and health 2004, the Congrsnal Budget Office looked to the qutn of the budget impact of gay marriage at the requt of Republin Reprentative Steve Chabot of CBO's 2004 study timated that legalizg gay marriage would brg ls than $1 billn revenue to feral ffers over 10 years om e tax, largely due to the marriage tg out what gay upl n get om feral benefs programs, the CBO found that tax revenue om ferally regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by about $400 ln a year om 2005 through 2010, and by $500 ln to $700 ln a year om 2011 through 2014 (the timat were ma unr the Bh tax cuts, which the Obama Admistratn extend except for married upl earng more than $450, 000) tax revenu largely e om the "marriage penalty, " a weird anomaly the tax , where upl who earn a siar e tend to be taxed more than if they were sgle, bee their bed e driv them to a higher bracket and they lose the benef om thgs like ductns or the child and pennt re cred, as well as the adoptn cred.

However, while regnizg same-sex marriag creas outlays for Social Secury and for the Feral Employe Health Benefs (FEHB) program, same-sex marriage would also save the feral ernment hundreds of lns of dollars annually (the CBO timated that verg same-sex spo the Feral Employee Health Benefs Program would st about $80 ln a year) Medire, Mediid and Supplemental Social Secury means-tt benefs, meang high-earners would be disqualified om gettg those stance, Medire nducts means tts for s Medire Part B program, a voluntary program that vers physician expens, as well as for s Part D program, s prcriptn dg to gay married upl, the CBO timated annual savgs 2014 of $100 ln Supplemental Social Secury Ine (means-tted payments to low-e elrly and disabled), $300 ln Mediid and $50 ln Patient Protectn and Affordable Care Act, which creat another means-tted entlement, would also see s sts rced by same-sex marriage. High-earners would be disqualified om gettg tax creds to buy health surance the Obamare if the Supreme Court l that all stat mt regnize gay marriage, retirement secury for same-sex upl will improve due to benefs om two Social Secury programs.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

5 tim that for an unmarried worker wh the same work history, ” the CBO, Social Secury provis a survivor benef, which a gay person n receive if his or her spoe di.

And, if you want the unvarnished and unmigated tth, and they are also rigidly opposed to gay marriage; therefore, you n bet your last dollar that they will now start to chip away at marriage equaly. "In the brief, Mchell lls for Roe to be overturned, and said that a cisn to overturn uld open the door for other "lawls" rights and protectns to be reversed, cludg the right to have gay sex and the right to same-sex marriage.

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS

" You n be sure that Thomas and Alo are chompg at the b to outlaw gay sex, and do away wh gay marriage, and they will do by chip, chip, chippg away.

They now have three other ras on their si, who are equally opposed to gay sex, and gay marriage, bee go agast their fervent relig beliefs. I had a nversatn wh a iend of me about the omo signs, particularly for gay marriage, and he was nonchalant about the doom that may - and is most likely - to lie ahead. Thomas and Alo said out loud what the others are thkg: Beg gay, beg married, and beg equal is an afont to zealo relig doctre.

And so long as the urt upholds laws like , and evably Mississippi's, we should be prepared to watch them dismantle gay marriage.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

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. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.

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

ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L. The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn.

”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods.

A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event.

TED CZ: SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE CISN WAS ‘CLEARLY WRONG’

Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships.

Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L. McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple.