Posted on 01/05/2025 3:12:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Mission-driven organizations often fight laws and policies that require them to accept individuals at odds with their mission, notably those in same-sex relationships for leadership and employment within Christian organizations.
Pro-life individuals and pregnancy centers routinely face limits on their advocacy and even threats to their existence from so-called buffer zone laws outside abortion facilities and Democratic attorneys general who see them as inherently deceptive.
New York took the unusual step in 2019 of combining these restrictions into a single law, signed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, that prohibits "discrimination based on an individual's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making," depriving religious and secular pro-life organizations their ability to associate with only those who share their values.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit against the so-called "Boss Bill" (SB 660) Thursday, four and a half years after a district court dismissed all but one claim by two pregnancy center networks and a church, citing its February 2023 ruling that the law plausibly forced another pregnancy center network to hire those who act against its "very mission."
That network, the Evergreen Association, sued in 2020 represented by the Thomas More Society, and argued that "being forced to hire employees who have had abortions" and did "not regret" them, "or would opt for an abortion in the future," would weaken its "mission to encourage expectant mothers to choose life" and its pro-life message.
The New York City-based appeals court had rebuked the district court for finding the burden on the Evergreen Association's "expressive association" was "minimal." It required the Empire State to meet the "strict scrutiny" standard of judicial review – a compelling government interest in regulating expression via the "least restrictive means."
The rat party is getting desperate.
Easy peasy to just find another reason not to hire the dipsh**. After all, we all know that those reasons will be there.
Does this ruling work both ways?
Are far-left organizations required to hire right-wingers who can come in and undermine their mission, pilfer their membership lists, covertly record their meetings and conference calls ?
so...how many 3k members does the n.y. branch of the naacp employ? inquiring minds want to know.
The new DOJ must sue NY for deprivation of rights under color of law and get civil damages in the billions to award the organizations attacked with these unconstitutional laws and actions.
The law suit being brought back is a good thing.
Not sure what “3k” means in this context, but I get where you’re going.
That is because the "let's not kill babies" people are honest while the disciples of Tanit are liars.
How many convicted murderers and drug traffickers must the NYPD hire?
How many KKK members must the SPLC ADL hire?
How many Republicans must the Democrat party hire?
How many Mormons must the local Mosque hire?
Beyond stupid ruling.
First Amendment?
First Amendment?
We don’t need no stinking First Amendment.
That would be a hoot.
Give these idiots a brutal lesson on the law of reciprocity.
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