Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Condemns Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Ruling on the Society

Feb 26, 2024 by Dave Doveton

From: GistFest.

In a statement on Tuesday about a case unrelated to same-sex marriage, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito expressed his concern. He highlighted the impact of legalizing same-sex marriage on “society.”

The underlying case involved an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a lesbian prison guard, which she won. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal filed by the Missouri Department of Corrections over part of the jury selection process.

The outspoken conservative justice begrudgingly agreed with the court denying the petition for writ of certiorari, citing technical grounds that complicated the case. However, he took the opportunity to offer his views on how LGBTQ rights intersect with religious beliefs.

Alito wrote, offering a generalized summary of the case, “In this case, the court below reasoned that a person who still holds traditional religious views on questions of sexual morality is presumptively unfit to serve on a jury in a case involving a party who is a lesbian.”

Alito argues that the case concludes that he accurately foresaw the anti-religious consequences of the landmark Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.

“That holding exemplifies the danger that I anticipated in Obergefell v. Hodges, namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government,” his Tuesday statement reads. “The opinion of the Court in that case made it clear that the decision should not be used in that way, but I am afraid that this admonition is not being heeded by our society.”

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