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Supreme Court Denies Review In All Seven Gay Marriage Cases

Supreme Court Denies Review In All Seven Gay Marriage Cases

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Early reports are coming in that the Supreme Court has denied review in all seven gay marriage cases before it. 

#SCOTUS apparently denies review in all seven #ssm petitions

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) October 6, 2014

The seven petitions from five states – Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin – will now be subject to the pro-equality rulings from the 7th, 10th, and 4th Circuit Courts of Appeals

Lisa Keen reported last month on what would happen should SCOTUS declines to review the pending cases. 

If the Supreme Court declines to review one of the pending marriage cases this session, said Kaplan, it would have to lift the stays currently in place. “Then marriages between gay couples could happen in a whole bunch of new states,” she said. That would enable same-sex couples to get married in 12 additional states: Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma in the Tenth Circuit; Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia in the Fourth Circuit; and Wisconsin and Indiana, in the Seventh Circuit. Added to the 19 states that already enable same-sex couples to marry, and the count will stand at 31 and the District of Columbia.

Developing…


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2014/10/breaking-supreme-court-denies-review-in-all-seven-gay-marriage-cases.html

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Be An Underwear Designer With Shrine Boxers!

Be An Underwear Designer With Shrine Boxers!

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For more information, go to The Underwear Expert.

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Catalonia, Spain Introduces Powerful Hate Crime Law to Protect LGBT People

Catalonia, Spain Introduces Powerful Hate Crime Law to Protect LGBT People

SpainThe parliament of Catalonia, an anonymous community in Spain, has passed a law to fight anti-gay violence. Specifically, the law targets attackers of the LGBT community with fine — maximum €14,000 (~$17,500).

Pink News points out that, despite that Spain is one of the gay-friendliest countries in Europe — having same-sex marriage for almost 10 years — this law is a response to a report in July that said the majority of Spain’s hate crime in 2014 was motivated by sexual orientation, with 452 identified cases. (All this is not to mention suspicious, recent bar raids by police.)

Opponents of the bill include Spain’s conservative Popular Party, which says the law makes it so the burden of proof will be shifted — that those accused of homophobia will have to prove their innocence.

Said Popular Party spokesperson Dolors López:

Why isn’t there an anti-discrimination law for immigrants or ethnic minorities[…]You can’t come up with a specific law for every group suffering discrimination […] This law grants the LGBT collective an extraordinary system of protection that other groups don’t enjoy.


Jake Folsom

www.towleroad.com/2014/10/catalonia-introduces-powerful-hate-crime-law-to-protect-lgbt-people.html

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Attorney General Predicts Gay Marriage Support

Attorney General Predicts Gay Marriage Support
Attorney General Eric Holder is heading for the exit, but before he goes, he has some good news for gay and lesbian couples.

Holder recently announced that he’d be stepping down from his job as soon as a replacement can be found. Under his leadership, the Department of Justice took an active roll in advocating for LGBT equality. When Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act went before the Supreme Court in 2013, Holder’s DOJ filed briefs arguing that the U.S. Constitution requires marriage equality.

In an interview with NBC News, Holder called his work on civil rights among the most important of his tenure, and identified marriage equality as “the civil rights issue of the day.” He also observed that public support for marriage continues to grow.

He also predicted confidently that the DOJ would continue to take a lead role on marriage equality. The Supreme Court is likely to consider at least one marriage case in its current term, and Holder expects the Department of Justice to file a similar brief to the one submitted in 2013.

Meanwhile, it remains unclear which case — if any — the Supreme Court might take up. Seven petitions are currently ready for the Justices to accept, and they could announce a decision any day now. But some additional lawsuits are drawing closer to the court is states like Missouri, Idaho, Hawaii, Tennessee, Michigan, and more. That means that we could be in for several more months of delay if the Justices want to wait until some other case has a chance to reach them.

www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-baume/attorney-general-predicts_b_5937672.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

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