Amy Coney Barrett Has Ties to Right-Wing Group in LGBTQ+ Rights Case

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In the Supreme Court term that begins in October, Justice Amy Coney Barrett will hear a case involving the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people — and the woman who brought the case is represented by a far-right group to which Barrett has close ties.

The court will hear the case of 303 Creative v. Elenis, in which a Colorado web designer wishes to preemptively refuse to design wedding sites for same-sex couples. The designer, Lorie Smith, wants to expand her wedding business but include a statement that she will serve only opposite-sex couples.

Smith had filed suit in 2016 to challenge Colorado’s LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination law, which covers public accommodations such as her business. A trial court dismissed her suit in 2019, and a federal appeals court upheld that dismissal in 2021. She then appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed in February to take the case. A date for the hearing hasn’t been set.

Smith is represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit legal organization that specializes in fighting for conservative religious causes, especially opposition to LGBTQ+ rights and to abortion rights. It represented Colorado baker Jack Phillips in a case that reached the Supreme Court in 2017, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-ties-wing-135118964.html

So they're arguing they have a religious right to discriminate?

[Blue Owl]

1. She's Diarrhea Donny's Special Handmaid

There she is, appointed by an ex-president guilty of espionage….

[hibbing]

2. right to discriminate

Pretty much sums it up.

[Initech]

3. I'm shocked, shocked! Well... not that shocked.

Fuck the Christian right! I refuse to live in a fascist theocracy!

[Corgigal]

4. American people can't trust them,

and we pay for their salaries and medical care.

Expand the court.

[modrepub]

5. Doesn't That Go Both Ways?

Couldn't anyone discriminate against anyone based on their religion? So if I'm an Atheist and don't like certain evangelical Christians, can I deny them service?

Asking for a friend.

[mopinko]

6. that's the thing about all these cases. it's not the rulings, it's

that they manufacture these cases and shepherd them all the way up.
ginni thomas is doing this. she gives the lawyers pins, to let the judges know who's who.

[sakabatou]

7. Let me guess, she won't recuse herself?