Current Events > Justice Alito very concerned that bigots will be called bigots.

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https://www.rawstory.com/alito-fears-bigot-label-for-americans-with-traditional-religious-views-of-lgbtq-people-2667325741/

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is expressing concern that Americans who hold what he calls traditional religious views on homosexuality and refuse to hide them are being labeled as bigots.

The Bush-appointed 73-year old jurist with a history of anti-LGBTQ opinions has been called the courts staunchest opponent of LGBTQ rights.

As The New Republic reports, Alito is complaining that people who oppose homosexuality were being unfairly branded as bigots, despite that being a dictionary definition of bigotry.

On Tuesday, agreeing the Court should not take a case, Alito wrote he is concerned that a lower courts reasoning may spread.

He notes that the lower court reasoned that a person who still holds traditional religious views on questions of sexual morality is presumptively unfit to serve on a jury in a case involving a party who is a lesbian.

In that case, several jurors who acknowledged they held anti-LGBTQ views were released from serving on the trial.

That holding exemplifies the danger that I anticipated in Obergefell v. Hodges namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be labeled as bigots and treated as such by the government.'

Slates Mark Joseph Stern writes, Alito suggests that a trial court violates the free exercise and equal protection clauses when it allows an attorney who represents a gay client to strike potential jurors because they express overt bigotry against gay people.

Veteran journalist John Harwood observes, Justice Alito, even if he somehow gets Obergefell overturned, will be aggrieved forever more.

He adds, There will never be another time when his views about homosexuality will not be treated as bigotry by most people in our society.

Attorney Max Kennerly posits, If we followed Alitos reasoning that religious beliefs can never serve as a basis to strike a juror, wed instantly run into a collision with jurors who believe, on religious grounds, the death penalty is wrong. Any guesses how Alito would rule on that? Yeah, exactly.

"Stop calling us bigots!"

"Then stop being bigoted."

Don't you hate it when people accuse you of doing that thing you do?

Considering those "traditional religious values" he's so staunchly defending is just bigotry as it has nothing to do with Christ or his teachings, Alito can go ahead and fuck himself right off a cliff.

You aren't tolerant if you don't tolerate our intolerance!

Speech, consequences, you know the rest.
He might be able to say it, but the other jurors don't have to entertain it.

HylianFox posted...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is expressing concern that Americans who hold what he calls traditional religious views on homosexuality and refuse to hide them are being labeled as bigots.

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Oh, it says right here that that is what they are, Mr. Alito. I also see a footnote down at the bottom that it says you should go fuck yourself, you hateful bigot. Thanks.