Anti gay marriage newspaper articles
Supreme Court hears gay marriage opponent's challenge to anti-discrimination law
DENVER -- Four years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, the justices are preparing to take up a potentially more sweeping and consequential question: whether universal accommodation laws that expect business owners to provide all customers their goods and services infringe on freedom of speech.
Denver wedding website designer Lorie Smith, who opposes same-sex marriage, is asking the steep court to strike down Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act, which would require her to serve LGBTQ couples or face fines. She says the law, which has no exemptions, forces her to implicitly express aid for something that violates her religious beliefs.
"While I'm happy to serve everyone, and I have served everyone, including those who identify as LGBT, there are certain messages I am unable to promote through my business," Smith told ABC News.
The case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, pits the free speech clause of the First Amendment against legislative efforts to stamp out discrimination against minori
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2003 Jul 25-2Some Republican lawmakers amplify calls against same-sex attracted marriage SCOTUS rulingConservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 decree on same-sex marriage equality. Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota own followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court. In North Dakota, the resolution passed the mention House with a vote of 52-40 and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s Residence Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Day –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill. In Montana and Michigan, the bills acquire yet to encounter legislative scrutiny. Resolutions acquire no legal power and are not binding law, but instead allow legislative bodies to communicate their collective opinions. The resolutions in four other states ech Costa Rica Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage banGetty Images Costa Rica's Supreme Court has ruled that the country's same-sex marriage prohibit is unconstitutional and discriminatory. The court ruling gives the country's legislators a second limit of 18 months to change the current law. The president welcomed the ruling, saying he wants to guarantee "no person will face discrimination for their sexual orientation". However many lawmakers are evangelicals who strongly oppose gay marriage. A Supreme Court judge, Fernando Castillo, told a squeeze conference on Wednesday that the ban will automatically cease to legally occur in 18 months, even if no action is taken by the legislature. The legislative chamber has 57 seats - 14 of which are held by evangelical members. Late Wednesday's ruling complies with a judgement issued in January by the Inter-American Human Rights Court that said same-sex marriage should be recognised by all of its signatory members. Enrique Sanchez, the country's first openly gay legislator, told AFP that he did not believe the assembly would work out a law change between themselves. He i MAP Report: The National Patchwork of Marriage Laws Underneath ObergefellMEDIA CONTACT:
Rebecca Farmer, Movement Advancement Project rebecca@lgbtmap.org | 303-578-4600 ext 122 As the Respect for Marriage Act moves through Congress, MAP’s March 2022 report on the landscape of varying state marriage laws around the country is a resource. MAP researchers are available to react questions and our infographics are available for use. MAP’s report, Underneath Obergefell, explores the patchwork of marriage laws around the country. The report highlights the evidence that a majority of states still have existing laws on the books that would ban marriage for same-sex couples – even though those laws are currently unenforceable under the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell. If the U.S. Supreme Court were to revisit the Obergefell decision, the ability of same-sex couples to wed could again fall to the states, where a majority of states still have in place both bans in the statute and in state constitutions. The policy landscape for state marriage laws can be broken into four major categ |