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Blue States Try To Protect Same-Sex Marriage In Constitutions
2 months ago

Blue States Try To Protect Same-Sex Marriage In Constitutions

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING LGBTQ+ advocates are hoping to enshrine marriage protections for same-sex couples in several state constitutions this fall — a preemptive effort to protect that right from a conservative U.S. Supreme Court and a possible second Donald Trump presidency. And in Hawaii, voters will answer Question 1, which asks if voters want to remove language from the state …

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Sam Alito Launches Broadside Against Marriage Equality in Homophobic Juror Case
54 years, 11 months ago

Sam Alito Launches Broadside Against Marriage Equality in Homophobic Juror Case

Slate  

Does the First Amendment protect anti-gay bigots’ ability to serve on a jury in cases involving the rights of gay people? Alito’s opinion in Missouri Department of Corrections v. Finney protested the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up an appeal involving homophobic bias in an LGBTQ+ civil rights dispute. So, instead, Alito wrote an angry “statement” claiming that the case …

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AP WAS THERE: Supreme Court gives same-sex marriage rights
2 years ago

AP WAS THERE: Supreme Court gives same-sex marriage rights

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Editor’s Note: On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry. The vote was narrow - 5-4 - but Kennedy’s majority opinion was clear and firm: “The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry.” The ruling will put an end to same-sex marriage bans …

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US House of Representatives passes LGBTQ marriage protections
2 years ago

US House of Representatives passes LGBTQ marriage protections

Al Jazeera  

Voting a second time on the Respect for Marriage Act, lawmakers have sent the bill to US President Joe Biden to sign. But House Democrats advanced the Respect for Marriage Act this past summer in the wake of the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. “That is the work that is being done today with …

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'Love wins again': Senate passes bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage
2 years ago

'Love wins again': Senate passes bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage

Raw Story  

Rights groups and other supporters of marriage equality celebrated Tuesday after 12 Senate Republicans joined with all Democrats present to pass protections for same-sex and interracial partnerships. The Respect for Marriage Act does not confirm the right of same-sex couples to marry nationwide, as the U.S. Supreme Court did in Obergefell v. Hodges, but rather requires states to recognize their …

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How the country’s first openly gay senator is asking GOP colleagues to back marriage equality
2 years, 4 months ago

How the country’s first openly gay senator is asking GOP colleagues to back marriage equality

Raw Story  

Originally published by The 19th Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants her Republican colleagues to understand the dire consequences of losing access to same-sex marriage. Baldwin, the country’s first openly gay senator, has taken the lead on trying to convince her colleagues to vote to protect marriage equality — seven years after that right was seemingly settled by the Supreme Court. But …

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House passes same-sex marriage bill in response to Supreme Court
2 years, 5 months ago

House passes same-sex marriage bill in response to Supreme Court

LA Times  

Del Martin, left, slips a ring onto the finger of Phyllis Lyon during a wedding officiated by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in June 2008. The U.S. House on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade’s guarantee of abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by …

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LGBTQ advocate Jim Obergefell fears other rights are at risk with Roe overturned
2 years, 5 months ago

LGBTQ advocate Jim Obergefell fears other rights are at risk with Roe overturned

NPR  

LGBTQ advocate Jim Obergefell fears other rights are at risk with Roe overturned JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Now that Roe vs. Wade has been overturned, many people are concerned about what other established rights could disappear next. But in a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the legal rational for last week's decision could be applied to reconsider other landmark …

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Op-Ed: The end of Roe will lead to baseless attacks on gay rights
2 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: The end of Roe will lead to baseless attacks on gay rights

LA Times  

Within hours of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, abortion was banned in 13 states when so-called trigger laws went into effect. In the days and weeks after the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the previously unimaginable recriminalization of gay sex and the loss of my right to marry felt chillingly possible. …

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Decision Destroying Roe Threatens Legal Right To Interracial Marriage, Experts Warn
2 years, 6 months ago

Decision Destroying Roe Threatens Legal Right To Interracial Marriage, Experts Warn

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The legal right not only to same-sex marriage but also to interracial marriage — which reaches even further back in American history — is now at risk with the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and its profound upending of decades of basic rights, experts warn. Vice President Kamala Harris, whose own marriage is interracial, …

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The Supreme Court’s Next Target Is Marriage Equality. It Won’t Be the Last.
2 years, 6 months ago

The Supreme Court’s Next Target Is Marriage Equality. It Won’t Be the Last.

Slate  

The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday overruling Roe v. Wade is a devastating blow to individual autonomy and women’s equality, a horrific assault on liberty that will inflict unspeakable suffering and death in the states that are already criminalizing abortion. In Dobbs, though, Justice Sam Alito flatly rejected this vision of ever-evolving liberty: For the court to recognize unenumerated rights, …

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Advocates worry other rights at risk if court overturns Roe
2 years, 7 months ago

Advocates worry other rights at risk if court overturns Roe

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Little doubt remains about what the Supreme Court plans to do with Roe v. Wade. “This is about a lot more than abortion,” President Joe Biden warned Wednesday, saying the court’s draft opinion could jeopardize same-sex marriage, access to contraception and LGBTQ rights. The current Supreme Court abortion case specifically concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortion after …

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These 3 Supreme Court decisions could be at risk after Roe v. Wade was overturned
2 years, 7 months ago

These 3 Supreme Court decisions could be at risk after Roe v. Wade was overturned

NPR  

These 3 Supreme Court decisions could be at risk after Roe v. Wade was overturned Enlarge this image toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to end the nationwide right to abortion has sparked speculation — including by President Biden — that other landmark rulings could now be on shakier ground, including those that …

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Florida's "don't say gay" bill is just the beginning: Republicans want to claw back all gay rights
2 years, 8 months ago

Florida's "don't say gay" bill is just the beginning: Republicans want to claw back all gay rights

Salon  

Despite national outrage and threats from powerful companies like Disney, on Monday, Florida's Republican Gov. The Florida law uses the same provision to enforce the "don't say gay" bill by empowering parents to sue schools that allow LGBTQ staff and students to be out. Recent events show that, in addition to the ongoing war on trans people, Republicans are deeply …

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