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If the Supreme Court could be one superhero, which would it be?
I think the Supreme Court would be like Superman because Superman can help pick out what justice problems could be made.

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Cynthia Delano, Per. 4 An Explanation of the Supreme Court

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This cartoon, shows Justice Sotomayor, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Kagen, Justice Breyer, and Justice Kennedy who supported the decision making gay marriage as an acceptance.

This cartoon also shows that these justices were siding on the Plaintiff's side which was James Obergefell.

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This political cartoon show a person removing the gay piece of cake away of Marriage which means many verdicts that were against gay marriage. For example, Justice Roberts Jr., Justice Thomas, Justice Alito Jr., and Justice Scalia were the four who disagreed with same-sex marriages.

I see this as them siding with Richard Hodges who disagreed on James Oberegefell's claims for his husband John Arthur. Richard Hodges believed in his religion where "Gay was a sin"

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It's a small autobiography of a man named Cleve Jones who explored and identified himself as a gay man. Then now joins in the community and goes on to make a movement for the whole LGBT.

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In February 2017, ABC aired a four-part miniseries event inspired by the book, created by Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black.
The miniseries was recently awarded the Audience Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

When We Rise chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.

The all-star cast includes Guy Peace as Cleve Jones, Mary-Louise Parker as Roma Guy, with special appearances by David Hyde Piece, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Carrie Preston, and Rob Reiner.

The two-hour premiere event was directed by Gus Van Sant.
In 1972, calls for gay rights inspire a new movement.
A young peace activist escapes his repressive life in Phoenix and heads to San Francisco, hoping to find refuge and community, but finds that the struggle for survival is just as difficult as it was back home. Elsewhere, NOW purges lesbians from its ranks.
Ken, Cleve, and Roma fight the Briggs Initiative.
Ken, Cleve, and Roma fight an initiative that would ban gays from working in California public schools, while Cleve works on the campaign to elect Harvey Milk as San Francisco City Supervisor. But soon a disease starts killing gay men all over the country.
AIDS ravages the gay community during the 90s.
AIDS continues to ravage the gay community. Cleve creates the AIDS quilt in order to get the President's attention, while Diane's daughter Annie struggles with her identity as the child of a lesbian couple and a gay man.
Cleve inspires young activists to march on Washington.
An energized Cleve inspires a group of young activists to organize a march on Washington to demand full LGBTQ civil rights, while Roma uses her skills to reform healthcare in San Francisco. Elsewhere, a group forms to try overturning California's discriminatory proposition banning gay marriage.

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In February 2017, ABC aired a four-part miniseries event inspired by the book, created by Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black. The miniseries was recently awarded the Audience Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

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In the focus of this article it explains how New Jersey is moving to protect marriage equality since the bill never passed which is drawing some anxiety to the LGBT community. There has been settled of a new bill but doesn't show any signs of gay marriage which is causing issued for the LGBT because churches are already refusing to perform marriages for the same sex.

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New Jersey is working to quickly pass a law to protect marriage equality in the wake of increasing anxiety about what the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority could do to LGBTQ rights.

"We have talked about this a few times in the past with our legislative allies," Lauren Albrecht, policy consultant for Garden State Equality, told Gay City News. "We can never be sure about anything. When it comes to equal rights for our community, we can't leave it up for chance."
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On December 9, the Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey Assembly unanimously passed a bill to codify the right of same-sex couples to get married in the state. The state legislature is expected to easily pass the bill before the end of the year.

While marriage equality has been legal in the state since 2013, it was done so through a court ruling rather than a law. There was a bill proposed after the ruling, but it contained religious exemptions that LGBTQ advocates did not support. The bill never passed.

The new bill does not include any religious exemptions, according to Politico. A previous version of the bill included a section that said that no religious institution "shall be compelled to provide space, services, advantages, goods, or privileges related to" marriages they don't agree with.

Churches can already refuse to perform marriages they don't approve of, but removing that section of the bill is meant to mitigate any issues for LGBTQ couples in New Jersey should the Supreme Court overturn marriage equality.

Some Supreme Court justices have already voiced opposition to the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which legalized marriage equality in all 50 states in 2015.

In 2020, Justice Clarence Thomas issued an opinion that repeatedly attacked the decision as unconstitutional because it "bypassed" the "democratic process" and causes people "with sincerely held religious beliefs concerning marriage" to "find it increasingly difficult to participate in society."

Justice Samuel Alito joined Thomas in the opinion, which said that the only solution is to ban marriage equality again.

The ACLU's Chase Strangio noted on Twitter that it's unusual to see Supreme Court justices openly show their desire to overturn a five-year-old decision.

"The brazenness of the rightward direction of the Court is a threat to even the most basic expectation of legal protection," he tweeted.

And with six conservative-leaning justices on the Supreme Court, many believe LGBTQ rights now hang in the balance, especially with the court's indication that they may be willing to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to further restrict or even ban abortion in the recent case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

Legal experts say that reasoning similar to that in the Roe decision was used in Obergefell, which means if the justices are willing to overturn Roe, they may be willing to overturn another. Justice Sonia Sotomayor even accused a lawyer of "dissimulating" when he argued that banning abortion wouldn't affect LGBTQ rights.

LGBTQ advocate Sharon McGowen of Lambda Legal told Bloomberg Law that LGBTQ victories like Lawrence v. Texas (which ended state bans on gay sex in 2003) and Obergefell "were built on the foundation of Roe and Casey and the Court's other reproductive rights cases."

New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D) expressed this sentiment to Politico when explaining the legislature's decision to get a marriage equality bill passed.

"If they can [potentially gut Roe v. Wade], same-sex marriage can be the next thing," Sweeney said.

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New Jersey moves to protect marriage equality in case the Supreme Court ends it

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New Jersey is working to quickly pass a law to protect marriage equality in the wake of increasing anxiety about what the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority could do to LGBTQ rights. "We have talked about this a few times in the past with our legislative allies," Lauren Albrecht, policy consultant for Garden State Equality, told Gay City News .