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Texas judge says Supreme Court ruling means she doesn’t have to officiate same-sex weddings
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You'd think a Judge would know the text of the 14th amendment, but this is Texas, after all.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court will probably stand by her bigotry and refuse to enforce the constitution that they've turned into birdcage liner in the name of Republican Jesus.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tribunal of Six figured out some mental gymnastics that let them declare the 14th amendment unconstitutional.
They’re doing something worse: They will bend it to exclusively service the rights of the white Christian community. Look at how much of their Harvard/UNC decision was couched as the logical outcome of black civil rights.
The latest Supreme Court ruling on whether you had to serve customers whose message you disagreed with even if it is a message related to a protected class, was actually relatively narrow in scope. Unfortunately, the media did a bad job of reporting the actual opinion rather than the multiple procedural problems related to the case that should have stopped it dead in the water.
I do agree with the slippery slope reporting that likely future rulings may actually allow for refusal of service even if the customer is from a protected class unfortunately.
The right wing media didn't do a bad job reporting it, they used it to push a wider narrative deliberately
Agreed. And I don't get how Bostock vs Clayton County doesn't trump all this bullshit? It says that protection for sex also covers gender identity and sexual orientation because those 2 things are in-part defined by sex already.
Wouldn't that case mean all these anti-gay, anti-trans laws are already unconstitutional?
Your stare decisis and precedent have no power here.
This court has thrown out standing, precedent, and even basic honesty about relevant core facts and history. The Psycho Six are effectively now our House of Lords, and they will rule over us for decades, effectively without restraint.
They can arrogate power at their leisure, abrogate the expressed will of the people on a whim, and alternately cripple and turbocharge the executive branch, based solely on who is president.