Posted on 06/15/2020 1:24:31 PM PDT by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement about today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court regarding sex discrimination:
The Supreme Court undermined the rule of law today. In expanding the ban of sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity, the court engaged in an abuse of power by legislating from the bench.
There has been a years-long battle by Left to change federal law to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. But Supreme Court today short-circuited the democratic process and rewrote the law without a vote of Congress but by a vote of six unelected judges.
Congress should reaffirm the Constitution and combat this judicial power grab by reaffirming the original meaning of the Civil Rights Act. Only Congress can amend a law, not the Supreme Court.
Today’s radical Supreme Court decision shows that the threat to the rule of law doesn’t only come from leftist rioters in the streets, but also from judicial activists on the bench.
As Justice Alito warns, today’s decision, unless fixed by Congress, could destroy women’s sports, weaken religious freedom and free speech, weaken personal privacy, and cause chaos in schools.
Judicial Watch last year submitted an amicus curiae (friend of court) brief to the court on this issue, detailing how Congress repeatedly rejected efforts to amend the law:
Where 71 bills over the course of 45 years attempted to include sexual orientation or gender identity in Title VII’s definition of sex, it is singularly unpersuasive, after all those bills have failed, to argue that these categories were “in there all along.” Any such statute should be passed by Congress, not ordered by the court.
Off the Wall Ping!
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Is Roberts a closet gay. He always seemed very feminine the way he talked.
True; if we have Congress and Senate we can pass a law and force them to re-visit. How do we force them to have a brain?
The solution is simple. Merely repeal the entire “Civil Rights Amendment.” There has been nothing but abuse by it as various aggrieved groups use is as a club to punish others.
Are you serious? The majority in Congress and the Senate are rats, hard core leftists, and RINO’s. The rest are genuine conservatives that wet their pants if the others and especially the media shouts at them.
Gorsuch is the new Kennedy as far as the queer issues go. How could we not see this, Gorsuch being a member of a gay cult “church?”
I guess female athletes can kiss Title IX goodbye. It was nice for you while it lasted.
Don’t obey the Supreme Court’s “opinion” on anything. Obey the actual law, as written. Anything NOT written into the language of the law does not become “law” just because the Supreme Court implies such. This “ruling” is incapable of changing any law. Only the legislative branch can do this.
I dont think there is any closet involved here.
I was just agreeing with him that such a scenario is theoretically possible.
Changing the law to define “sex” as biological should be added to the Republican platform. And our leaders held to it.
Think that will happen?
So now a Southern Baptist Church must hire a practicing homosexual minister with a live in partner? This means that religious freedom is gone.
This decision lays the foundation for future protection for pedophiles. It also lays the foundation for persecution of churches.
Including Gorsuch!
As I've said in many posts, the true Church will have to start going underground.
Forget whatever laws on the books that favor the Church, the Supreme Court has now undermined the Church's very existence by what they did today. Every church can now be sued by the homosexual lobby for not allowing the hiring or firing bases on sexual identity.
........... There needs to be some action to include Political discrimination. In this country it is quickly becoming almost illegal to be Conservative.
We suspected as much, because he attended an episcopal church with a female pastor.
AMEN
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