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Clarence Thomas wants SCOTUS to "correct the error" of legal gay marriage

Jun 25, 2022 View Original Article
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    38% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    38% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Simply put, a narrowing of the 14th Amendment could put the right to interracial marriage, marriage equality for LGBTQ+ people, and other civil rights on the chopping block."
45% : "It would be one thing if recognition for same-sex marriage had been debated and adopted through the democratic process, with the people deciding not to provide statutory protections for religious liberty under state law," Thomas wrote at the time.
43% : Obergefell legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in a 5 to 4 decision.
43% : The justice contended that those precedents were "demonstrably erroneous."Griswold v. Connecticut established that married couples have a right to purchase and use contraception without government interference.
41% : "The conservative-led Supreme Court decision to invalidate landmark precedent and overturn fundamental federal protections guaranteeing the right to abortion is a five-alarm threat to the civil rights of all Americans," said Victoria Kirby York, deputy executive director of the coalition.
39% :Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the country, blasted the Supreme Court's decision on abortion and warned of the threat to LGBTQ rights.
35% : Until then, Obergefell will continue to have 'ruinous consequences for religious liberty.'

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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