With the prospect of a conservative Supreme Court now looming, queer people across the nation are debating fast-tracking major life changes, expecting that rights they now have could be stripped away.
“There are many threats in the legal realm to the rights of LGBTQ people,” said Lambda Litigation Director Diana Flynn. “But perhaps the most eminent one is the assertion of religious objections to compliance with the civil rights laws.”
“You’re really seeing the harm really across the lifespan from allowing religiously-affiliated government contractors to say, ‘Well, your civil rights laws don’t apply to me,’” Loewy argued.Kenneth Upton, senior litigation counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said it’s cases like Fulton, where plaintiffs are seeking exemptions from discrimination law, that worry him.
Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the county’s largest LGBTQ+ organization, believes that marriage equality is settled law. But he also echoes the concerns from other advocates about protections against discrimination. Brad Polumbo, a gay conservative writer and journalist, thinks those fears are overblown. He points to the court’s historic LGBTQ+ ruling in June, in which a conservative-majority court voted 6-3 in favor of nondiscrimination workplace protections.
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