Posted on 06/30/2023 1:28:27 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed in a new opinion for a major same-sex wedding case that the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was motivated by anti-gay prejudice.
In a landmark 6-3 decision that pit the interests of LGBTQ non-discrimination against First Amendment freedom, the Supreme Court on Friday held that a Colorado graphic designer who wants to make wedding websites does not have to create them for same-sex marriages.
The nation's highest court ruled in favor of artist Lorie Smith, who sued the state of Colorado over its anti-discrimination law that prohibited businesses providing sales or other accommodations to the public from denying service based on a customer's sexual orientation.
"In this case, Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the court's majority opinion. "But tolerance, not coercion, is our Nation’s answer. The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands. Because Colorado seeks to deny that promise, the judgment is reversed."
Sotomayor dissented from the majority...
As part of her dissenting opinion, Sotomayor mentioned the Pulse shooting, where 49 people were killed and dozens more were injured. Police shot and killed gunman Omar Mateen after a three-hour standoff, during which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
Sotomayor argued that the massacre was an instance of anti-LGBTQ hate.
"A social system of discrimination created an environment in which LGBT people were unsafe," wrote Sotomayor. "Who could forget the… the Pulse nightclub massacre, the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history?"
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Even if this were correct, it would not at all relate to the issues in this case.
Weird eh? False claims about “gay” incidents. In our town “they” are having some sort of get together about matthew sheppard being murdered for being gay. Except IIRC it was actually a drug deal gone bad and the perps didn’t give a crap he was gay or not.
Weird eh? False claims about “gay” incidents. In our town “they” are having some sort of get together about matthew sheppard being murdered for being gay. Except IIRC it was actually a drug deal gone bad and the perps didn’t give a crap he was gay or not.
She has always been a selfish, arrogant type who thinks her personal biases should be the interpretation of the laws. She has vitually no knowledge of law as several critics have pointed out as her contributions to legal rulings almost never cited precedents. Her bias rules.
As to this current statement, I submit she is a lying, dog faced pony soldier.
Her emotional outburst is the precise opposite of scholarship.
Some people can have impaired reasoning abilities.
Sotomayor seems to have that problem.
Communists lie....all the time. That is a fact.
So frustrated that nincompoop made Supreme Court Judge. I expect for years we will see moronic statements and liberal leaning votes on cases from her so leftist the Tower of Pisa looks straight.
Remember that each Justice has four clerks. Usually one will work on a certain opinion. So, this comment was either included by a clerk from the beginning or written by Sotomayor and the clerk didn’t even bother to fact check it. Says a lot.
Well, the Pulse nightclub located location has become a shrine to perversion. I think lots of the homo-pedo-lesbo crowd is trying to get it placed on the map of must-see spectacles on the road to Ditzzy-World.
Orlando law enforcement leadership rolled-over early on this slaughter and hugged (LOL) the LGBTQIP+ players. It made the inaction of the police (think Parkland massacre) just vanish from the news headlines.
Come to think of it, Pulse massacre was quite similar to Uvalde school shooting. Police on the scene seemed to think that they should not go in until all until shooting was over.
So, who was really persecuting the students at Parkland, the children at Uvalde, the patrons at Pulse? It sure looks like the LEOs (in these cases) were too willing to sit on their hands in their front-row seats.
And that is starting to look like a silent conspiracy.
(Didn’t mean to hi-jack the thread, but ...)
And the deadliest was against country music fans so who is the most oppressed?
You mean a left-wing judge would use fake facts in her argument?
I’m shocked.
So you tell me that a brain-dead socialist Demonrat disagrees with the constitution? Duh!
“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed in a new opinion for a major same-sex wedding case that the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was motivated by anti-gay prejudice.”
And just what is the price of tea in China today, Justice?
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