Posted on 03/06/2023 5:48:52 PM PST by marshmallow
Washington D.C., Feb 28, 2023 / 17:15 pm A Catholic bookstore in Jacksonville, Florida, is suing the city to block a law it says could force the business to use a person’s preferred pronouns when they do not reflect the person’s biological sex, claiming the law violates its constitutional rights.
The suit, filed by the Queen of Angels Catholic Bookstore in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division, takes issue with the city’s Human Rights Ordinance.
The city’s anti-discrimination law was expanded in 2020 to include protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The bookstore filed the lawsuit because similar laws have been interpreted in such a way elsewhere in the country.
The lawsuit argues that the law forces them to recognize transgender pronouns, including so-called “neopronouns” that do not reflect either the male or female gender, and prevents them from formalizing an official pronoun policy that is consistent with a Catholic understanding of sex and gender.
CNA reached out to the City of Jacksonville but a spokesperson declined to comment on litigation.
“Free speech is for everyone,” Rachel Csutoros, legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, said in a statement. The bookstore is receiving pro bono legal services from ADF for this lawsuit.
“Americans should be free to say what they believe without fear of government punishment,” Csutoros continued. “Christie [DeTrude], owner of Queen of Angels Catholic Bookstore, gladly serves everyone, but she can’t speak messages that go against her religious beliefs. Yet Jacksonville is illegally mandating Queen of Angels abandon its religious beliefs — the very faith that motivates the store to open its doors to customers every day.”
The city changed its anti-discrimination laws in 2017 to include discrimination based on “the gender-related identity, expression, or appearance of a person.”
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We just need to start calling everyone COMRADE.
If they don’t know who or what they are, how are we supposed to know?
I’m sorry dude/dudette.
My rights trump yours so my free speech right decides to call you dudette/dude. My choice, not yours.
EC
I don’t care about your pronouns, but what do your chromosomes say?
A city that is 56.2% religious - 19.2% Baptist - should not have such gov. lawmakers.
Last couple trannies I came in contact with, I used the pronoun “Bud”. As in “Hey Bud, can you tell me where the extension cords are located?”
I’ve found that they are too surprised to complain.
Wait until the rats steal 2024. We haven’t seen anything.
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