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Title: Court threatens to burn fragile protections
Post by: LostInTime on July 16, 2007, 07:32:32 AM
Post by: LostInTime on July 16, 2007, 07:32:32 AM
Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070716/OPINION03/707160320/1008/OPINION01)
Deb Price
Five gay-rights allies remain: Anthony Kennedy, who penned the pair of legal aces; John Paul Stevens, now 87; David Souter; Stephen Breyer; and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And no one can be certain just how far any of the five -- especially Kennedy, who has become the court's conservative swing vote -- would go to protect gays in cases less outrageously extreme: In Romer, Colorado had tried to fence its gay citizens out of the normal political process. In Lawrence, a gay Texas couple was arrested for having sex at the home of one of the men.
"This term confirmed a lot of our fears," says Jon Davidson, legal director at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Deb Price
Five gay-rights allies remain: Anthony Kennedy, who penned the pair of legal aces; John Paul Stevens, now 87; David Souter; Stephen Breyer; and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And no one can be certain just how far any of the five -- especially Kennedy, who has become the court's conservative swing vote -- would go to protect gays in cases less outrageously extreme: In Romer, Colorado had tried to fence its gay citizens out of the normal political process. In Lawrence, a gay Texas couple was arrested for having sex at the home of one of the men.
"This term confirmed a lot of our fears," says Jon Davidson, legal director at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.