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Sotomayor blasts court in scathing dissent on same-sex wedding case
The Hill ^ | 06/30/2023 | ELLA LEE

Posted on 06/30/2023 8:06:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Protected classes” and the laws that protect them don’t take priority over Constitutional rights, which are endowed by the Creator and can’t be taken away.


61 posted on 06/30/2023 8:35:59 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Antoninus

Lets see ... who else is a protected class...

drug addicts
murderers
psychopaths
illegal immigrants
diddlers

LGBTQ arent alone....


62 posted on 06/30/2023 8:36:16 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I feel gay today.

Now I’m a protected class.


63 posted on 06/30/2023 8:36:34 AM PDT by struggle
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"“Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class,” Sotomayor wrote."

There are no protected "classes". We should all be equal under the law.

64 posted on 06/30/2023 8:36:35 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: odawg

Yep, they became a “protected class” when the Supreme Court allowed Obama to change the meaning of “sex” in the antidiscrimination laws to also mean “sexual orientation”.

But this could work both ways, as Christians are also a “protected class”, since it is illegal to discriminate based on religion.

So, for example, some enterprising Christians might contact gay bars who offer space for rent for parties and such, and ask to rent their space to hold Christian events, like a “Prayer Service for the Damned Souls of Homosexuals Lost in Lust and Pride”. And if the venue refuses....


65 posted on 06/30/2023 8:36:41 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sotomayor is a low-IQ charlatan.


66 posted on 06/30/2023 8:36:47 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class

So only protected classes have Constitutional Rights? Oh I does not good to an organization to tear it down from the inside!

67 posted on 06/30/2023 8:36:57 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: plain talk

“We should all be equal under the law.”

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.


68 posted on 06/30/2023 8:37:28 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There should be zero protected classes, period.


69 posted on 06/30/2023 8:37:47 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do we have protected classes? Is it in the Constitution? What are the protected classes?

She mentions “movement for liberty and equality.” Does a protected class get equality, or something more than equality?

Let’s get real. Compare “a Christian wedding website designer’s choice not to provide services to gay couples” to what might happen to a Jew wearing a yarmulke going into a Muslim community. There is violence as in “he looked at me funny” and there is violence as in being beaten to death. We are letting poor metaphors distract us from reality.


70 posted on 06/30/2023 8:38:25 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: Yogafist

Yup, by their own admission. Gender is fluid, sexuality is a spectrum, it can change like the wind on a whim.


71 posted on 06/30/2023 8:38:42 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Scathing?” She’s too dumb to be scathing. Just reeee…


72 posted on 06/30/2023 8:39:00 AM PDT by livius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So - having just read Sotomayor’s wiki page - she was - by her own admission - an affirmative action student at Princeton, and an affirmative action student at Yale law school. So now she’s the affirmative action addition to SCOTUS. Says everything you need to know about affirmative action.


73 posted on 06/30/2023 8:40:50 AM PDT by LizzieD
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To: politicket

A rug muncher wanting special rights for her kind. What a surprise!


74 posted on 06/30/2023 8:45:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Justice Sonia Sotomayor saw liberty in action and doesn’t like it one bit for years the Marxist left have tried to twist the laws to degrade America.


75 posted on 06/30/2023 8:45:04 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She’s a great example of how having “protected classes” dumbs down and undermines a society.

Is she wasn’t a member of two protected classes, she would never have gotten close to the Supremes.


76 posted on 06/30/2023 8:46:40 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Protected Class” - imagine a Supreme Court Justice using such a term.

Another sign of the death of the Constitution and Death of the Republic.


77 posted on 06/30/2023 8:48:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Yardstick

So many foolishly subscribe to the ascientific, foolish, baseless Lady Gaga “Born This Way” theory on same-sex attraction that Sotomayor can happily prattle on, confident that she won’t be laughed out of the room.


78 posted on 06/30/2023 8:48:04 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve never quite understood the “you need to make us a cake” or “you need to design us a web-site” issues.

Some people try to equate that to “sit in the back of the bus”. They are not even related.


79 posted on 06/30/2023 8:51:47 AM PDT by Fury
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They weren’t refused service
They asked for a product that the company doesn’t have.


80 posted on 06/30/2023 8:52:02 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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