You Know That This Will End Up In The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court and the federal court system has been stacked against us with justices who put the Bible ahead of the Constitution and this case pits two conflicting rights against each other.

'This Isn't Just About a Pronoun.' Teachers and Trans Students Are Clashing Over Whose Rights Come First
Time
By Katie Reilly
November 15, 2019

Before Aidyn, who was designated female at birth, started at Brownsburg High School in Brownsburg, Indiana that fall, his mother, Laura Sucec, worked with school officials to make sure his new name and gender would be logged into Brownsburg’s database. She wanted to be sure teachers knew him as Aidyn and didn’t use his former name—his “dead name”—when addressing him.

The school was quick to accommodate Aidyn, and with input from Sucec and other parents, it soon allowed all trans students to use bathrooms, names and pronouns aligned with their gender identity. But that change, which was meant to protect the students, was a problem for Aidyn’s orchestra teacher, John Kluge. Kluge, 29, believes “it is sinful to promote transgender behavior,” according to a federal lawsuit he filed in June that accuses the Brownsburg Community School Corporation (BCSC) of forcing him to resign because of his beliefs. The BCSC policies do not specifically mention bathroom use or names for trans students, but Sucec and Kluge say those changes were made during the summer of 2017.

The case is one of at least three pending against public schools in three states—Indiana, Virginia, and Ohio—by teachers who say they were disciplined for refusing to use the preferred names or pronouns of transgender students. But beyond arguing over names and pronouns, the lawsuits raise the question of whose rights take precedence when transgender students’ demands for recognition and respect clash with teachers’ personal beliefs. All of the teachers say they were forced to choose between keeping their jobs or acting in a way that conflicted with their religious views.

This is going to be a battle to the death, there is a lot at stake for us… our human right to exist and it is not just us but all the minorities.

How long do you think it will take for a landlord to say… “I don’t rent to interracial couples, it is against my religious belief.”

Or a luncheonette to say we don’t serve Muslims here, it is against my religious belief.

All it will take is for something to happen to a progressive Supreme Court justice and Sen. McConnell will conveniently forget what he said about not holding hearing for president Obama appointee until after the elections.

In the past I wouldn’t be concerned because there is a large number court cases where the courts have ruled religious freedom only applied to places of worship.

One of the more common cases is the case of Methodist owned Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association pavilion where they refused to rent it out to a lesbian couple.

The ACLU wrote about the case…

“The Camp Meeting Association could have used the pavilion exclusively for its own purposes,” said Lawrence Lustberg of Gibbons, P.C., who represents the couple as a cooperating attorney for the ACLU-NJ. “The judge found, however, that the association opened the pavilion up to the public and thus was obligated to follow anti-discrimination laws.”

I have to wonder if the courts would rule the same now with all this “religious freedom” talk even though the Camp Meeting Association agreed to open the pavilion up to the public.

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Today I am on the cross sound ferry going over to Long Island to visit some friends there for the day.