Justices Strike Up Gay provision of anti Constitution Colorado
Washington - In an important victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court met Monday with a provision of the Constitution, Colorado, not only negates the civil rights of homosexuals protection mechanisms in the state, but also the passage the prescription of new anti-discrimination laws.
“A State can not hold a class of persons a stranger to its laws,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in a notice to a powerful 6-3 majority. He said the determination of Colorado, known as the Amendment 2, the state took homosexuals “in a single class,” singling in violation of the Constitution of the same protection to guarantee a fixed fee disability and any other inexplicable on the basis of “animus”.
“It is not in our constitutional tradition to enact laws of this nature,” said Kennedy in an opinion with Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
If no other state has such a provision in the Constitution, petitions for a referendum similar to the November election are now in circulation Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Voters in Maine defeated a similar proposal last year. Local governments in Florida, Ohio, Oregon and have the same approach through local regulations. A federal appeals court confirmed last year, a settlement of Cincinnati gestrippt that homosexuals citizens’ rights protection mechanisms in one case, which is currently under appeal before the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas joined Scalia’s opinions differ on Monday criticised the majority of “Inventing a new constitutional doctrine and extravagant, far from the victory of traditional strengths.” Justice Scalia said Colorado, an amendment was “extremely sensitive” prevention opportunities “piece of deterioration of the sexual morality preferably with a majority of Coloradans.
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