Unions “without rings”et “without guests”. In the United States, since the very conservative American Supreme Court reversed at the end of June the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion which it had established in 1973 by the judgment Roe v. Wadeexpress gay marriages are multiplying, for fear that the high court will also go back on this federal law, reports The Guardian.
For when the Supreme Court overturned its landmark judgment on the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy, leaving American states to legislate freely on the issue, conservative Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that the court had “the duty of” correct the error “established” in several landmark civil rights and privacy cases – including Obergefell v. Hodges of 2015, which enshrined marriage equality across the United States.
“Thirty-five states still prohibit same-sex marriage by statute, state constitutional amendment, or both”, recalls the daily. And “if the Obergefell ruling were overturned, these bans would be likely to resume”.
Some LGBT couples “don’t wait to find out” whether or not this will be the case, and are rushing to get married, explains the British newspaper. Like Kaliah and Britney Halsey, a female couple who had planned to wed in December 2023, but did so this year in a park in Nashville, Tennessee, without guests.