Newsweek
Civil rights activist Jim Obergefell recently said he believed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is targeting contraception and gay marriage following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Speaking to CNN‘s Jim Acosta on Sunday, Obergefell, who was the plaintiff in the 2015 Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage, said that he felt the court’s recent ruling on abortion should concern everyone in the U.S.
Obergefell also reflected on comments recently made by Thomas regarding addressing other court rulings and the threat he believes this posed to same-sex marriage and intimacy.
“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell,” Thomas said in a concurring opinion to the court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade released on Friday.
“We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents,” Thomas continued. “After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.”
In 2003, Lawrence v. Texas established that criminal penalties for sodomy or private sexual acts between consenting adults are unconstitutional. That decision came down in a 6 to 3 ruling.
Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in a 5 to 4 decision. Thomas, who joined the court in 1991, dissented in both the Lawrence and Obergefell deci…
