Showing posts with label gay marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay marriage. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Alito joking about a Black child wearing a KKK costume: What happened at oral arguments for the Colorado gay marriage case.

But when you start lobbing around references to "Hamilton" and "Black Santa" and "Ashley Madison" and the riotously funny prospect of small Black kids dressed up as Klansmen, you're in wholly new territory. So today's hearing at the highest court in the land was about levity and mockery, and all the trivial examples of imaginary harms that will never come to pass. This is not just erasure of LGBTQ interests; interests in which the state has an important and established interest in protecting. This is about mocking the obvious implications of creating a carveout from antidiscrimination laws with fatuous slippery slopes and petty humor. 
It's bad enough that this is what passes for sober analysis at the court in this case—that is already its own mess. Instead of reflection on that point, we have to grapple with the fact that it comes from the selfsame jurists who see every critique of their own conduct as intolerable...


Friday, November 18, 2022

Mormon church voices support for Senate bill to protect gay marriage | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has voiced support for a Senate bill which would protect same-sex marriage, saying LGBTQ+ individuals are entitled to rights even while affirming its belief that same-sex relationships are a sin.


Monday, July 18, 2022

Ted Cruz latest Republican to push back against SCOTUS' gay marriage ruling

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday became the latest Republican to voice opposition to the Supreme Court's ruling to legalize gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, saying on an episode of his podcast "The Cloakroom" with conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler that the ruling was "clearly wrong."…


Sunday, June 26, 2022

Contraception, gay marriage: Clarence Thomas signals new targets for supreme court

"The logic of Justice Alito's opinion, as the dissent pointed out, would absolutely threaten the constitutional legitimacy of all constitutional privacy rights," Berman said. "It goes against the institutional obligation to respect precedent. And it also goes against, as Chief Justice Roberts pointed out in his opinion, the principle that you don't decide in a given case, more than you have to resolve in that case."…


Thursday, November 5, 2020

Supreme Court grapples over Catholic organization's fight against nondiscrimination law | TheHill

...The group, Catholic Social Services (CSS), represented by the nonprofit Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, brought a lawsuit in federal court. The organization alleges that the city has unfairly targeted the religious contractors whose sincerely held objection to gay marriage is protected under the "free exercise" clause of the First Amendment...

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

GOP Representative Blames Obama and 'Drag Queen Advocates' for Shootings - Newsweek

 A Republican politician from Ohio has sparked fury after she linked the weekend's shooting in Dayton in which nine people died with a list of what she deems to be society's ills, including gay marriage, marijuana and violent video games. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/dayton-ohio-shooting-candice-keller-1452526

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Jesus' Gay Marriage Sing Along!

Jesus parodies Lily Allen's song "F_ck You!" to vent against all judgmental, materialistic, warmongering Republicans who go around speaking for Him. He finds it particularly galling when this is done in politics to fight against abortion and gay rights, two topics He never actually got around to mentioning...
https://youtu.be/gPTeCZ_gpDo

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Indiana tax service turned away couple because of gay marriage

Bailey Brazzel and her wife Samantha weren't trying to make a political statement last week. They were just trying to file their taxes. But when the owner of a Russiaville tax service refused to help because the same-sex couple was married, Brazzel said she felt she had to speak out. "I went in there to have my taxes done, not push my beliefs on her," Brazzel, 25, said. "It's not professional to me to turn someone away because they do something differently than you would like."....

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Tennessee trying to re-ban gay marriage | 13 WTHR Indianapolis

State lawmakers in Tennessee introduced a bill that would ban same-sex marriage. The "Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act" would "defend natural marriage between one man and one woman regardless of any court decision to the contrary.....
https://www.wthr.com/article/tennessee-trying-re-ban-gay-marriage










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