Posted on 06/26/2022 6:50:16 PM PDT by Morgana
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 (Reuters) - People attending Pride celebrations hosted by LGBTQ+ communities across the United States this weekend expressed outrage at the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, and a wave of anti-transgender legislation.
For more than 50 years, LGBTQ+ people and supporters have marched on the last weekend in June to celebrate hard-won freedoms. But now many fear those freedoms are under threat.
Pride parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Denver followed protests in some of the same cities decrying the Supreme Court's decision on Friday to reverse the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
"This march is going to have more of a serious tone than celebratory, and I don't think that's a bad thing at all," said Krystal Marx, executive director of Seattle Pride, which drew thousands of people to its parade on Sunday.
In New York City, throngs of people dressed in rainbow colors cheered as representatives of the abortion rights group Planned Parenthood took part in a parade in Manhattan. The marchers held pink signs that read "Together. We fight for all."
"Everybody please scream for Planned Parenthood!" an announcer called over a loudspeaker. "We won't back down!" the crowd responded.
The marches commemorate protests that broke out after police raided a gay bar at the Stonewall Inn in New York City on June 28, 1969.
LGBTQ leaders fear the abortion ruling by the court's conservative justices endangers personal freedom beyond abortion rights. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Court might reconsider other precedents, mentioning specifically the rulings protecting the rights to contraception, same-sex intimacy and gay marriage.
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June 24th is Right To Life Day.
Every year.
June is Right To Life Month.
Every year.
I would love for Kristan Hawkins and Lila Rose to promote both of those.
...Murder ruling....
Stop it! I’m bustin’ a gut here!!! To hell with cheers. There are infants all over the country smiling and laughing today.
Stop it! I’m bustin’ a gut here!!! To hell with cheers. There are infants all over the country smiling and laughing today.
Wait ... whut?
Fags, whose couplings can’t result in pregnancy are bent out of shape about abortion ?
That’s what I don’t get, why do people who never have to worry about unwanted pregnancies care so much about this issue?
The weirdo LBGQ1233efhl)(*&^% “community” knows if abortion ( killing babies ) is legal then anything goes.
“...their leftist totalitarian world view has been shaken...”
Sad thing is that the only things that have been changed is that the federal government can no longer fund abortion clinics as it is now a state requirement concerning medical procedures which is not in the Constitution, and never has been, and that the people in the trenches, the citizens, now must make a decision on how their state is going to run concerning the abortion issue. They are now forced to participate rather than throw money at it that many times is borrowed by the feds for other shortages like Obamacare and roads.
wy69
The first week of Pride Month, men could have babies. The last week of Pride and only women can have babies. They went backwards.
Neither hetero or homo sexual relationships have anything to do with marriage. They are a commitment to a financial contract. A piece of paper and vows before God can be understood without taking them in front of anyone and did for a long time before the institution of marriage was determined and was many times set up by families for financial or control gains, not for what the public considers today.
wy69
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