Supreme court gay rights 2022
Idaho Republican legislators call on SCOTUS to reverse homosexual marriage ruling
The Idaho Property passed a resolution Monday calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision on same-sex marriage equality.
The court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision established the right to same-sex marriage under the equal protection clause and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
The resolution comes after Associate Justice Clarence Thomas’s expressed interest in revisiting the Obergefell ruling in his concurring belief on the Supreme Court's landmark opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned the federal right to abortion.
Thomas, who issued a dissenting opinion in against lgbtq+ marriage, wrote in , "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous,' we have a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents."
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Protesters hold LGBT rights rainbow (pride) flags as activists collect outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., December 5, REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
What’s the context?
A decade after the U.S. legalised gay marriage, conservatives want the Supreme Court to turn back the clock.
BERLIN - Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark verdict that legalised male lover marriage, the Ivory House is reversing a raft of LGBTQ+ rights and Republicans in at least six states are scrambling to ban same-sex weddings.
LGBTQ+ advocates say the right to commit a person of the same sex could be at risk, should judges vote to overturn the Supreme Court's historic Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
A Supreme Court showdown remains theoretical, but legal challenges to the ruling are surfacing across the territory, with proponents emboldened by President Donald Trump's return to office.
Here's what you need to know.
What's happened since the U.S. legalised homosexual marriage?
On June 26, , the U.S. became the 17th country in the world to legalise same-sex marriages na
A decade after the U.S. legalized gay marriage, Jim Obergefell says the fight isn't over
Over the past several months, Republican lawmakers in at least 10 states have introduced measures aimed at undermining same-sex marriage rights. These measures, many of which were crafted with the help of the anti-marriage equality group MassResistance, seek to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell.
MassResistance told NBC News that while these proposals face backlash and wouldn’t change policy even if passed, keeping opposition to queer marriage in the public eye is a win for them. The group said it believes marriage laws should be left to states, and they scrutinize the constitutional basis of the 5-to-4 Dobbs ruling.
NBC News reached out to the authors of these state measures, but they either declined an interview or did not respond.
“Marriage is a right, and it shouldn’t depend on where you live,” Obergefell said. “Why is homosexual marriage any different than interracial marriage or any other marriage?”
Obergefell’s journey to becoming a public figure for same-sex marriage rights
US Supreme Court hears arguments challenging LGBTQ rights law
The United States Supreme Court’s conservative majority has signalled sympathy towards an evangelical Christian web designer whose business refuses to provide services for same-sex marriages.
The case pits LGBTQ rights against a claim that liberty of speech exempts artists from anti-discrimination laws.
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end of listOn Monday, the justices heard more than two hours of spirited arguments in Denver-area business owner Lorie Smith’s appeal, which seeks an exemption from a Colorado regulation that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and other factors. Lower courts ruled in favour of Colorado.
Smith, who runs a web design business called Creative, contends that Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act violates the right of artists – including web designers – to free sp