The Christian Science Monitor Daily for May 9, 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Twelve years later, as norms changed and same-sex relationships became more visible and accepted - with 37 states and Washington, D.C., following Massachusetts' lead - the high court delivered the Obergefell ruling.
53% : The next year, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage.
51% : What began with the dismantling of Jim Crow segregation in the 1960s continued with the expansion of sexual freedom rights, such as to contraception (Griswold v. Connecticut) and abortion (Roe v. Wade).
51% : She signed another bill the same day prohibiting classroom discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in elementary school.
46% : She's concerned about how schools handle students' feelings around gender identity and sexual orientation.
46% : Whether the right to same-sex marriage is ultimately overturned or not, Ms. Rogers and Ms. Trumbatori say they are crafting an "exit plan" to move to a more LGBTQ-friendly state.
44% : Fourteen states criminalized sodomy, and there were no same-sex spouses - at least officially.
43% : More controversially, the law prohibits classroom instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade "or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students," and it authorizes parents to sue the school district if they believe it isn't following the law.
42% :Last week, a draft opinion overturning the right to abortion leaked from the U.S. Supreme Court.
42% : The right to same-sex marriage would likely not fall into that category.
42% : Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a 2020 opinion extending federal anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ workers, in Bostock v. Clayton County.
41% :The draft opinion, he notes, distinguishes abortion from other substantive due process rights because it concerns "potential life," and because the court's abortion rulings have failed to resolve conflict over the issue.
38% : Not everyone is fearful that the potential end of Roe this year would lead to the quick demise of LGBTQ rights like same-sex marriage.
36% : In the draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health leaked to Politico last week, Justice Alito writes that overturning Roe and a related case, 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey, "should [not] be understood to cast doubts on precedents that do not concern abortion."
35% : Conservative lawmakers and lawyers have argued recently that same-sex marriage carries the same fundamental flaw as other unenumerated rights.
19% : Three current members of the court voted against recognizing a right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges - including Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the leaked draft opinion - and have repeated their objections that it has "ruinous consequences for religious liberty."

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