Lock The Queers Up!
2022-09-10 08:59:10 UTC
...Put these fucking faggots in jail. Enough is enough.
(Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Fridaypermitted Yeshiva University to refuse to recognize an LGBT
student club that the Jewish school in New York City has said
violates its religious values, temporarily blocking a judge's
ruling ordering it to allow the group.
Sotomayor put on hold for now the judge's ruling that a city
anti-discrimination law required Yeshiva University to recognize
Y.U. Pride Alliance as a student club while the school pursues
an appeal in a lower court. The liberal justice handles certain
cases for the court from a group of states including New York.
A stay Sotomayor issued of the judge's injunction will remain in
place pending a further order from herself or the entire Supreme
Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority.
Yeshiva's student club application process was set to end on
Monday, and the school said that absent the court's intervention
it would be forced to recognize Y.U. Pride Alliance in violation
of its religious values.
"We are grateful that Justice Sotomayor stepped in to protect
Yeshivas religious liberty in this case," Eric Baxter, a lawyer
for Yeshiva at the conservative legal group Becket Fund for
Religious Liberty, said in a statement.
Katherine Rosenfeld, a lawyer for the club, said it will await a
final order from the court and remains committed to creating a
safe space for LGBT students on the university's campus "to
build community and support one another without being
discriminated against."
Y.U. Pride Alliance formed unofficially as a group in 2018 but
Yeshiva determined that granting it official status would be
"inconsistent with the school's Torah values and the religious
environment it seeks to maintain."
The dispute hinges in part on whether Yeshiva is a "religious
corporation" and therefore exempt from the New York City Human
Rights Law, which bans discrimination by a place or provider of
public accommodation.
New York state judge Lynn Kotler in June determined that the
school's primary purpose is education, not religious worship,
and it is subject to anti-discrimination law. Kotler also
rejected the university's argument that forcing it to recognize
the club would violate its religious freedom protected under the
U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
After higher state courts in August refused to stay the judge's
ruling, Yeshiva turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, emphasizing
its religious character, including that undergraduate students
are required to engage in intense religious studies.
"As a deeply religious Jewish university, Yeshiva cannot comply
with that order because doing so would violate its sincere
religious beliefs about how to form its undergraduate students
in Torah values," the school told the Supreme Court.
The Modern Orthodox Jewish university, based in Manhattan, has
roughly 6,000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate
programs. Among the school's values, according to its website
https://www.yu.edu/about/values, are believing in "the infinite
worth of each and every human being" and "the responsibility to
reach out to others in compassion."
Powered by its increasingly assertive conservative justices, the
U.S. Supreme Court in recent years has expanded religious rights
while narrowing the separation between church and state.
During its term that ended in June, the court backed a public
high school football coach in Washington state who refused to
stop leading Christian prayers with players on the field after
games and ruled in favor of Christian families in Maine who
sought access to taxpayer money to pay for their children to
attend religious schools.
In its upcoming term, which begins on Oct. 3, the court will
decide a major new legal fight pitting religious liberty against
LGBT rights involving an evangelical Christian web designer's
free speech claim that she cannot be forced under a Colorado
anti-discrimination law to produce websites for same-sex
marriages.
Up yours faggots! You cannot force-legislate acceptance of your
disgusting behavior.
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