Can you find the exact quote from Thomas that says he’s coming for gay marriage? I’ve looked and can’t find the quote( which I’m sure is being taken out of context on every liberal news source.
Thanks
Screeching headlines all over the place. They are exploding with rage and and hatred. The three cases Thomas mentions are the ones legalizing, in all states, contraception, sodomy, and same sex marriage. Details of the cases in the article. I remember when Trump, after he started campaigning, not only mentioned overturning RvW, but also same sex marriage;’something about it being a bad decision or something like that. I heard him say it once.
Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rights
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3535841-thomas-calls-for-overturning-precedents-on-contraceptives-lgbtq-rights/
aha, direct quote!
Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”
Aha, a bit more, they’re hoping...but Thomas disagrees with Alito. And I agree with Thomas. The point is wider than life.
Justice Samuel Alito, in a new section of the opinion that was not present in the leaked draft, responded to the dissenters’ warnings.
He emphasized a line the majority opinion that said “[n]othing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”
“We have also explained why that is so: rights regarding contraception and same-sex relationships are inherently different from the right to abortion because the latter (as we have stressed) uniquely involves what Roe and Casey termed ‘potential life,’” Alito said.
Alito’s assertions were undercut by a concurrence by Justice Thomas, who explicitly called for the court to reconsider its rulings striking down state restrictions on contraceptives, state sodomy bans and state prohibitions on same sex marriage.
“Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’” Thomas wrote, “we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”
Thomas, however, separated himself from the court’s conservative majority and called for the court to examine all rulings that concern the 14th Amendment’s due process clause, specifically pointing out decisions that protected contraception access, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriages. The due process clause ensures that any American has the right to due process before someone can take away their inalienable rights.
“For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Thomas, widely considered to be the court’s most conservative justice, wrote in a concurring opinion.
Concurring opinions are court opinions that agree with the majority opinion of the Supreme Court, but acknowledge differing reasons for coming to the same conclusion. The opinion is not a binding precedent, unlike the majority opinion.
[More about those cases at the link]