{"id":1741,"date":"2005-07-26T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/26\/how-would-a-confirmation-of-roberts-affect-lgbt-civil-rights\/"},"modified":"2005-07-26T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T21:18:43","slug":"how-would-a-confirmation-of-roberts-affect-lgbt-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"How would a confirmation of Roberts effect LGBT civil rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Roberts becomes (and he probably will&#8211;don&#8217;t expect much from the cowardly Dems) the next justice on the highest bench in the land, how would it effect LGBT civil rights and liberties? Certainly there is a possibility he <em>could<\/em> face cases such as same-sex marriage, LGBT adoption, civil unions, equal employment opportunities and protection, and anti-LGBT hate crimes. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/Template.cfm?Section=Home&#038;CONTENTID=27986&#038;TEMPLATE=\/ContentManagement\/ContentDisplay.cfm\">Human Rights Campaign<\/a><\/strong>,  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonewalldemocrats.org\/2005\/07\/stonewall_state_2.php#more\">National Stonewall Democrats<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/press.arrivenet.com\/pol\/article.php\/671224.html\">P.F.L.A.G.<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.logcabin.org\/news_views\/log-cabin-republicans-on-the-nomination-of-judge-john-roberts-to-the-united-states-supreme-court.html\"><strong>Log-Cabin Republicans<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambdalegal.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/news\/press.html?record=1747\"><strong>LAMBDA Legal<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetaskforce.org\/media\/release.cfm?releaseID=850\"><strong>National Gay and Lesbian Task Force<\/strong><\/a> have released statements on Roberts&#8217; nomination voicing some concern due to his conservative ideals. So given his conservative leanings how do think he would rule on them (yes, I&#8217;m asking you to &#8220;<em>prejudge<\/em>&#8220;)? There already has been speculation on the news that <em>perhaps<\/em> his Catholicism would play a part in his rulings&#8211;so, how do you think he would rule on LGBT issues?  Would they be beneficial or detrimental to the LGBT Community? And yes, I really did have to ask because I have to post something on Roberts today other than reproductive rights. &#8220;Prejudge&#8221; and speculate away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Roberts becomes (and he probably will&#8211;don&#8217;t expect much from the cowardly Dems) the next justice on the highest bench in the land, how would it effect LGBT civil rights and liberties? Certainly there is a possibility he could face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,49,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-lesbian-gay-bi-trans-and-queer-issues","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}