Romer v. Evans by Fairlight Chemelli https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb 1996 en-us 2017-11-06 00:51:52 UTC 2026-02-16 19:24:33 UTC hello@padlet.com LGBT in Society 1996 fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203708853 - People are starting to fight for LGBT rights, especially in the workplace
- Many companies are starting to acknowledge and support the gay community
- A larger number of companies are barely acknowledging their gay staff because they do not see a need to give them special Treatment

]]> 2017-11-06 01:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203708853 "Gay rights is the issue of the 90's, just as civil rights was in the 60's and women's rights was in the 70's." fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203714421 - Burke Stinson, Public Relations manager at AT&T]]> 2017-11-06 01:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203714421 "How productive are employees who worry about using the wrong pronouns to describe the people they love, who can't take their partners of 12 years to a company function, who fear that their boss hates gays?" fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203715011 - Ronald Smebye, Gay activist]]> 2017-11-06 01:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203715011 Colorado 1992 fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203715207 - Many Colorado municipalities are prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in all aspects of society (housing, education, employment, public facilities, etc.)
- The majority of the population in Colorado was not happy about these ordinances and voted in a referendum to the Colorado state constitution]]> 2017-11-06 01:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203715207 Amendment 2 fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203718281 - Amendment 2 to the Colorado State Constitution prohibits the law from protecting the LGBT community against discrimination ]]> 2017-11-06 02:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203718281 Romer and Evans fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203722771 - Roy Romer was denied a lease on an apartment by Richard Evans solely because of his sexual orientation
- Romer sued Evans but Evans argued that he had the right to deny Romer the lease under Amendment 2
- Evans along with others argued that the amendment simply denied special treatment to the gay community]]> 2017-11-06 03:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203722771 "The stated purpose of the amendment was to prevent the deterioration of the sexual morality favored by most Coloradans." fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203724093 - Case briefs]]> 2017-11-06 03:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203724093 Colorado Supreme Court fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203724172 - The court ruled that amendment 2 of the Colorado State Constitution was unconstitutional
- The law violated the equal protection clause under amendment 14 of the United Stares Constitution]]> 2017-11-06 03:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203724172 "If the constitutional conception of 'equal protection of the laws' means anything, it must at the very least mean that a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot constitute a legitimate governmental interest." fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203726021 - Justice Anthony Kennedy]]> 2017-11-06 03:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203726021 "Landmark Case" fairlightc1 https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203726745 - At the time this was the most positive ruling about LGBT rights
- The ruling showed that gay and lesbian men and women had the same right to governmental protection as straight people
- Showed a new level of respect for the LGBT community by acknowledging the fact that it is not right to discriminate based on moral or religious objections to a person's sexual orientation]]> 2017-11-06 03:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/fairlightc1/hclax2k3xlfb/wish/203726745