#kim+davis

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https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article305230821.html

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This was posted by @/phillydykecal on instagram, a page for promoting lesbian events in my city. I can’t even fully comprehend the levels of fucked up this is, and it’s a gross erasure of the well-known efforts by lesbians in every facet of human rights law. We’ve especially been the invisible backbone for gay rights and women’s rights. We never get the respect we deserve. Rooted in misogyny, as always.

We don’t need penis people to earn our rights. I’ve accumulated just a small fraction of the women who have dedicated their lives to achieving marriage equality:

Mary L. Bonauto: Bonauto has been an attorney at GLAD Law since 1990 and has litigated and done policy work in every New England state. She has litigated in the state and federal courts of New England on many types of discrimination issues, including addressing anti-LGBTQ discrimination as discrimination based on sex, establishing parentage protections, strengthening student rights, free speech, and religious liberty, relationship recognition, and marriage defense. In 2015 she successfully argued before the US Supreme Court in the historic case Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the freedom to marry for same-sex couples nationwide.

Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer - Plaintiffs

Windsor was the lead plaintiff in United States v. Windsor (2013), successfully overturning Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman. Since that decision, with only a few exceptions, U.S. District Courts and Courts of Appeals have found state bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, as have several state courts. This ruling began to extend federal rights, privileges and benefits to same-sex unions. This was a crucial case, a landmark ruling just two years before Obergefell. ediewindsor.org

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - Activists

Founded the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first lesbian organization in the country. Martin and Lyon would soon become co-editors of the Ladder, DOB’s publication, and grow the readership even amid an era of pervasive homophobia. The pair was also the first lesbian couple to join the National Organization for Women, as feminist causes also spurred their organizing work. Lyon and Martin helped to ensure that the fundamental right to marry under the California Constitution belongs to all couples, including lesbian and gay couples. They were plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit that secured marriage rights for same-sex couples in California. On May 15, 2008 the California Supreme Court ruled that California could no longer exclude lesbian and gay couples from the right to marry.

April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse - 2012, DeBoer and Rowse sought ​to overturn the state's adoption law. The women, a committed couple, wanted to jointly adopt their children. But state law didn’t allow unmarried couples to do that together. So, they went to federal court in Detroit and Judge Bernard Friedman said their case was really about marriage, and they needed to challenge the state's ban on same-sex marriage. Their state case DeBoer v. Snyder was then consolidated by the Supreme Court into Obergefell.

Nelda Majors and Karen Bailey - long-time activists and among the first same-sex couples to wed in Arizona

Abby Rubenfeld - organizing legal challenges in Tennessee after the Windsor decision, assembling plaintiffs whose marriages were denied recognition by the state. Her efforts also helped push Obergefell to the U.S. Supreme Court

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Of course the list goes on and on. Thousands upon thousands of lesbian couples across the country have stood up for our rights to marry. Their efforts are being erased by modern queers who preach “queer history.” But please, inform me what transsexuals have done to fight for same-sex marriage? If anything, TRAs actively fight against legal definitions of biological sex, taking us further away from achieving sex equality.

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He has some good news for you

The US Supreme Court is Not taking up the case that could overturn gay marriage

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

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Like ok if marriage is so pointless and capitalist and it's such white privilege bourgeoisie bullshit to care that gay people can get married I guess that goes for interracial marriage too? Actually you know what post canceled I've seen people say they would be ok with they and their families being murdered in the Great Not Racist American Indian Decolonization Uprising they know isn’t going to happen. There is no limit to what rights these people will throw away on behalf of other people in their pursuit of proving how radical and communist they are online.

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More good news from SCOTUS

The whole reason that Kim Davis and her Christian Nationalist backers were trying to get Obergefell overturned, was because she was fined $360K for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples when she worked at the Town Clerks office.

She now has to pay that entire amount, since the Court refused to hear the case at all.

Eat shit, Kim Davis.

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Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to over