Gay marriage over turned
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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 want 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 LGBTQ+ rights and Republicans in at least six states are scrambling to ban same-sex weddings.
LGBTQ+ advocates tell the right to marry 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 need to know.
What's happened since the U.S. legalised gay marriage?
On June 26, , the U.S. became the 17th country in the world to legalise same-sex marriages na
Idaho Republican legislators call on SCOTUS to reverse same-sex marriage ruling
The Idaho House 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 decision in his concurring opinion 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 same-sex 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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Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling 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 possess followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the articulate House with a vote of and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House 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 have yet to face legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal noun and are not binding law, but instead allow legislati
Can Same-Sex Marriage Be Revoked?: Ferguson and Others v The United Kingdom
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the introduction of same-sex marriage in England and Wales, but how secure are LGBT+ rights once they contain been granted?
The last limited years have seen a marked increase in hostility towards the LGBT+ community in this state, such that the ‘extensive and often virulent attacks on the rights of LGBTI people’ in the UK were noted alongside those in Hungary, Poland, the Russian Federation and Turkey in a report from the Council of Europe. In it was reported that the UK has continued its descent down ILGA-Europe’s ranking for LGBTQ+ rights to 14th place, after having been top in ; this year it slipped further to 17th place. It is against this broader context that, last month, the UK was notified that an application has been made to the European Court of Human Rights concerning the revocation of same-sex marriage in Bermuda, one of the UK’s overseas territories: Ferguson and Others v The United Kingdom (no/22). As the signatory