Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.
time to look up asylum requirements for me and my husband in the EU lmao.
The way things are going the only safe place for all queer people will be a rowing boat on the ocean, through at this point maybe time for queers to start exploring the idea of building space rockets and heading out into space to find a new home the safest choice sigh 😞
Or blue state succession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_the_European_Union The EU has their own problems with LGBTQIA+ peeps, and it really depends on which member country one would live in, and travel to, both legally and culturally.
We’d be looking into France as our first choice. My husband doesn’t speak any foreign languages, but I can pass the A2 exam in French (and I’m actively studying to further this).
If France wasn’t an option, the list of first to tertiary choices would be Spain, Portugal, and Italy last (I’m ethnically half Italian with family living there; my grandfather was an Italian immigrant, but Italy doesn’t allow homosexual marriage).
I’d be wary of Italy, it’s currently governed by actual fascists (or rather “post-fascists”).
Like, go to the Wikipedia article of the ruling party “Brothers of Italy”, click on the party in the entry " Preceded by", do this twice again and you arrive at Mussolini’s Republican Fascist Party.