Gay marriage at risk
Here’s What You Need to Understand About the Respect for Marriage Act
While the bipartisan support for the bill is important, in train, the bill is quite limited.
James Esseks,
Co-Director,
ACLU LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project
The Respect for Marriage Act received bipartisan support in Congress and signals how far public conversations around marriage equality have evolved in recent years. Here’s why that’s a big deal but why — hostile to much of the reporting on it — the measure is actually fairly limited.
Why did the House of Representatives first overtake the Respect for Marriage Act?
The thrust behind the Respect for Marriage Perform was Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring notion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s Mississippi abortion decision in which it overturned Roe v. Wade. Justice Thomas urged the court to overturn its rulings establishing a fundamental constitutional right to employ contraception, the right of same-sex couples to marry, and a right to form inti
A decade after same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide via a landmark Supreme Court ruling, many LGBTQ+ individuals fear the right may no longer be secure, with some signs that long-growing Republican acceptance of it could be waning.
Obergefell v. Hodges was decided on June 26, , in a 5 to 4 ruling. Justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who still sit on the nation's top court, wrote dissenting opinions along with their former colleague, the sdelayed Justice Antonin Scalia.
While Gallup polling in showed that just 37 percent of Republicans thought same-sex marriages should be valid, that number rose to a record high of 55 percent in and , but has since dropped to 41 percent as of May—a double-digit decline. Over the past rare months, conservative lawmakers in at least nine states have introduced legislation aimed at undermining same-sex marriage. Some of these bills specifically take aim at the Supreme Court, urging the justices to overturn the Obergefell precedent.
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Protesters hold LGBT rights rainbow (pride) flags as activists gather 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 crave the Supreme Court to turn back the clock.
BERLIN - Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that legalised gay marriage, the White House is reversing a raft of Gay rights and Republicans in at least six states are scrambling to forbid same-sex weddings.
LGBTQ+ advocates speak 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 country, with proponents emboldened by President Donald Trump's return to office.
Here's what you want to know.
What's happened since the U.S. legalised lgbtq+ marriage?
On June 26, , the U.S. became the 17th country in the world to legalise homosexual marriages na
Republicans are going after marriage. Diverse people like me tried to warn you. | Opinion
The existence LGBTQ+ people feared is here. We tried to tell you.
This isn't hyperbole. This is Republican legislation.
On Monday, the Idaho Property of Representatives asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. If the Supreme Court takes up the challenge and rules in favor of the Idaho House, it could mean the end of gay marriage in the United States.
It’s a relocate that is intended to forward a message on behalf of the GOP that LGBTQ+ equality will no longer be tolerated. The Republicans want us to live in fear that they will take our rights away.
Republicans don't want me to wedding or have equal rights
I was not someone who dreamed about their wedding growing up. I didn’t realize why until a few years ago, when I confronted my own sexuality.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.Once I admitted to myself that I'm same-sex attracted, the idea of marriage blossomed in my mind. I made a Pinterest board for w