I Remember… June 2009.

2004 before I came out, I’m in
 incognito at a marriage equality rally.

When marriage equality passed in Connecticut all the celebrations and the partying!

And then the money dried up. Donations stopped to Love Makes A Family and they closed their doors. We got what we want… goodbye.

But the problem was the conservatives didn’t stop, they came out with a long range plan to overthrow equality and we are now seeing the fruits of that effort pay off for them as they packed the Supreme Court.

If Roe v. Wade falls, are LGBTQ rights next?
The Dallas Morning News
By Lauren McGaughy
May 4, 2022


A leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s forthcoming opinion on abortion says that the rights to gay marriage and same-sex partner intimacy may be safe — but only for now.

On Monday, Politico released a document that shows the court is poised to overturn the right to abortion decided in the 1973 landmark Texas case Roe v. Wade. Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday confirmed the leaked document’s veracity, but said it does not represent the court’s decision or the ultimate position of any justice.

If it proves to be the final version, or close to it, the opinion would not only uphold a Mississippi ban on abortions at 15 weeks but also overturn Roe and trigger even stricter bans in other states, including Texas.

Constitutional law experts believe the draft opinion also sheds light on the future of LGBTQ rights in this state and across the country. In the document, Justice Samuel Alito makes clear that the decision would apply only to abortion and that it should not be read to have any effect on previous rulings upholding gay unions and striking down bans on gay sex.

You can bet your sweet bippy!

We are on the radar of the conservatives.

This hand picked conservative Supreme Court by the Republicans who put the Bible before the Constitution loves the phrase “State Rights” and I see the handwriting on the wall they we are on the path to rollback our rights for the first time since the Supreme Court Dread Scott decision.

“Once you pull one string, the others become much more loose. The binding is really threatened,” Kreis said. “All of our rights, all of our civil liberties, they rise and fall together. They’re intertwined.”

While the fabric of LGBTQ rights would not unravel immediately, Kreis said it would be much easier for anti-gay advocates to fray it around the edges as Roe falls. If the right to privacy is lost in the abortion setting, for example, states could argue they have an interest in imposing their will on other private medical decisions, like treatments for transgender patients, especially children and adolescents.

“We’re in for a very ugly few months, few years,” Kreis said.

Say goodbye to the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, say goodbye to the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

What a horrible hodgepodge the court is going to make if they overturn marriage equality!

Can you imagine a couple is married in Connecticut and move to Texas were marriage will probably be banned what a legal nightmare that will create. Then what about if a person has an abortion in another where it is legal, could they be prosecuted for murder if it was legal in the state where they had an abortion?

Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution is called the “Full Faith and Credit Clause” which says that states have to recognize a contract from another state… marriage is a contract so Texas will have to recognize their marriage.

It is coming… mark my words and we better be ready for it. Our rights are not a done deal.