Rulings by the court to allow same-sex marriage and ban workplace discrimination have changed daily life for LGBTQ+ Americans since 2015, also paving the way for broader acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States and beyond.
But the court put religious rights before LGBTQ+ rights by ruling in favor of a Catholic Church-affiliated agency last month in a case related to same-sex foster parents, raising fears among advocates that years of big advances could be over.
It was the Supreme Court’s first case linked to LGBTQ+ rights since the arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whose appointment brought the court from a 5-to-4 to a 6-to-3 conservative majority. “We might have had this feeling up and through the Obama presidency that progress