Gay Connecticut Supreme Court justice calls out U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on same-sex marriage ruling repeal idea
A gay Connecticut Supreme Court justice suggested that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was being hypocritical in calling for reconsideration of rulings ensuring legal rights for gay people – while not calling for the repeal of a similar ruling that allows Thomas to be married to a white woman.
Andrew McDonald, a senior associate justice on Connecticut’s high court, took a shot at Thomas in a Facebook post after the U.S. Supreme Court justice leveraged a ruling that repealed the constitutional right to abortion to publicly call for the top U.S. court to potentially reverse rulings that bar states from outlawing gay sex and gay marriage.
“Mr. Justice Thomas had much to say today about my loving marriage. Oddly he didn’t have much to say about his ‘Loving’ marriage,” wrote McDonald, who when McDonald was serving in the state legislature.
“Loving” is a reference to “Loving v. Virginia,” the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned a Virginia law barring interracial marriages. It effectively invalidated other such bans nationally.
Thomas, who is Black, lives with his white wife Virginia “Ginni” Thomas in Virginia – a mirror image of the white husband and Black wife who were the plaintiffs in “Loving.”
The couple in the case, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, had been convicted of violating Virginia’s law and sentenced to a year in jail. The sentence was suspended after they agreed to leave the state and not return for 25 years.
McDonald’s wedding ceremony was conducted by then-Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy. As Connecticut governor four years later, he successfully nominated McDonald to become the second openly gay man to serve on an American state’s Supreme Court. …
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