Posted on 01/08/2018 1:06:48 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a legal battle over a Mississippi law that allows state employees and private businesses to deny services to LGBT people based on religious objections.
Signed into law in 2016 in response to the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling, it allows county clerks to avoid issuing marriage licenses to gay couples and protects businesses from lawsuits if they refuse to serve LGBT customers.
The law was immediately challenged. But lower courts, without ruling on the merits of the law, said those suing could not show that they would be harmed by it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
My dearly loved brother was homosexual...we all prayed for him and hope he made the right decision before he died. Ironically, he was the first important male influence in my life. He was wrong...but we loved him very much. 35 years later, I still deeply miss him.
It can't be soon enough. And they can take swing-both-ways Kennedy with them.
Queers have ordinary contracts at law that are not marriages.
How did he die, if I may ask?
Hold the champagne. It seems as though as soon as a plaintiff turns up who has in fact been refused a marriage license, or wedding cake, or whatever, it’ll be a new ball game:
‘A three-judge panel at the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a lower court ruling that blocked the 2016 law, known as House Bill 1523 and backed by Christian groups, from taking effect.
‘The panel said the plaintiffs, who included ordained ministers who have married same-sex couples and same-sex couples seeking to marry, did not have standing to bring the lawsuit.
‘”None of these plaintiffs has clearly shown an injury-in-fact,” said the panel, which did not rule on the merits of the law.’
The original trial judge found just this as the case, and he was dishonest about it and was reversed. How many more dishonest judges are out there?
This is the best defense against the GayStoppo. How are they hurt?
Are they hurt because they can’t receive a marriage license? They can get the equivalent by recording a civil domestic partnership with a governing contract that functions equivalently to a marriage contract.
Can’t get a wedding cake? Purchase a cake and write your own words, put on your own ornaments. No harm is done by the baker.
These sexual deviants want to make straight people buckle to their view, bow before sodomy and unnatural acts.
The libs on the court have been told not to resign, they are gonna have to die there. Ginsberg already sleeps during sessions so no big deal.
And what about this law is “Anti-LGBT”? It takes nothing away from them - it just allows people to recuse themselves from being involved in their lifestyle.
More fake news from the MSM.
Lefties are always pro choice until they arent.
One of the very first victims of aids.
WINNING , WINNING , WINNING !!! Can you say precedent ??
“There will be NO HOMOSEXUALS ( NOT ONE ) in the afterlife.”
Well, I think there is room for reformed, repentant souls whose life as a practicing homosexual is sincerely repudiated by the time of death and a new Christian life already embraced.
Since when do certain people have more rights than others?
No. If there was a chance of that then it wouldn't have been appealed to the Supreme Court. The decision stands as is.
Thanks for link. Read half of it so far, but everything seems to be about protecting people from abuses by overly litigious gay activists who wish to punish people for not participating in their world view. Very different than the “news” article was portraying it as.
The US government does not have the power to compel speech or action. To define when a person politely declines to do something or say something as a “crime” is not in the enumerated powers.
The LGBT lobby is laying the groundwork for evil tyranny that they will deeply regret as they press this issue forward.
well said
“unless the bakers are Muslims”
Someone who is straight could still order a gay cake from a muzzie bakery, just to see what happens.
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