Coming to America as well?
Under the new rules, parents who refuse to use the alternative pronouns for their children or refuse to pay for their transitioning could be criminally prosecuted. https://t.co/Zgw1rK7DoV
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 9, 2023
The Supreme Court rules in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that the First Amendment bars Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.
The majority ruling was based on First Amendment free speech grounds.
The progressive media, LGBTQ+ activist fundraising lobbies, and Democratic party politicos claim that the ruling is a frontal attack on LGBTQ+ rights and allows businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ+ clients. But the ruling does not permit businesses to refuse LGBTQ+ customers overall; it’s clearly targeted at allowing providers to refuse requests for services that involve the creation of explicit communications that violate the provider’s beliefs.
It is often necessary to balance conflicting rights. LGBTQ+ activists and Democratic party officials want to use the state to force small business owners to engage in expressive activity that violates their religious or otherwise deeply held beliefs. The court rightly told them to desist.
(Edited to clarify that the decision was based on freedom of speech, not religious freedom, grounds.)
2. the govt shouldn’t be able to force people to say something they disagree with. Those who liken this case to denial of service at restaurants/hotels during Jim Crow either don’t understand public-accommodations laws or are disingenuous to score cheap political points—or both.
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) June 30, 2023
4. And here's the brief I filed together with @HamLincLaw, Eugene Volokh, Dale Carpenter, @AmericanUnity.https://t.co/6qQxovRkE6
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) June 30, 2023
NPR reports the Supreme Court "narrowed LGBTQ rights." Another way to put it would be "affirmed First Amendment rights."
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) June 30, 2023
WaPo: "The vote split along ideological lines 6 to 3, with the liberals in dissent." If they don't back free speech, are they really liberals?
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) June 30, 2023
Added:
More gays and lesbians are catching on:
The New Neo writes: “The message is of body integrity, goodness, and wholeness, about which today’s children probably need a ton of reassurance. Unfortunately, they’re not watching Mr. Rogers anymore.”
Sage advice from James Kirchick:
And Deroy Murdock says “It’s Time For A Big, Fat Gay Divorce From The Alphabet People”:
GLAAD is endangering gay kids:
Censorship is alive and well, @glaad trying to censor opposing opinions about a subject MANY transsexuals disagree with. Medical transition of minors. Censorship usually means you do not have the facts to back up your claims so you try to silence your opposition. Remember @glaad… pic.twitter.com/6VwFSFIvCp
— Buck Angel® Transsexual (@BuckAngel) June 28, 2023
Ben Kawaller adds: “If the gay activism I grew up with was about securing equal rights, LGBTQ+ activism looks more like a cultural project aimed at reforming our ideas about gender and sexuality. It also doesn’t seem to be able to help itself from looking absurd.”
Andrew Sullivan makes a similar point:
Below, progressive activists want Republicans to be anti-gay.
And now this!
NYC Pride – 6/25/2023
— Stop Female Erasure / K Yang (@StopXXErasure) June 25, 2023
My name is K. Yang, I'm a former trans rights activist & LGBT non-profit whistleblower. I was just kicked, hit, pushed, mobbed by dozens of people in Washington Square Park. ♂️ who identify as ♀️ called me "bitch" & assaulted me. @KnownHeretic @bjportraits pic.twitter.com/4J9AaFXSEf
And worth repeating:
And then there’s this:
Gallup: The share of Americans who say that same-sex relations are morally acceptable has fallen during the past year from 71% to 61%. Even among Democrats the falloff was 6 percentage points, from 85% to 79%.
The Human Rights Campaign issues a warning to be afraid…be very afraid:
🚨 Our statement on the @HRC's "state of emergency" PR stunt.
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 7, 2023
TLDR: The Human Rights Campaign perpetually fear-mongers that the LGBT community is in grave danger in order to gin up donations and justify their existence.
We encourage them to read a history book. pic.twitter.com/eHL8q9qgii
Non-straight Americans have never enjoyed more rights or broad acceptance in our nation’s laws/culture than we do today. To effectively suggest — with a dramatic, first-ever “emergency” declaration — that it’s never been worse (dating back to the early 80s!) is really something. https://t.co/9MOKXiHePv
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 7, 2023
Via the Washington Times:
>>Mr. Moran said the problem is that HRC has redefined support for LGBTQ rights to include “trans surgeries for minors, biological men competing in women’s sports, and sex and gender identity lessons in kindergarten.”<<
“The HRC’s latest PR stunt is so ignorantly detached from the incredible LGBT progress over the past decade that we’d be shocked if their donors even buy it,” Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran told The Washington Times.
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 7, 2023
Check it out! https://t.co/tKR3LHBSlP
The gender ideology narrative is failing to convince the masses, so it’s an “emergency”!
Promoting the medical transitioning of gay kids is the real emergency that gay people should be responding to:
Guy Benson on what we should celebrate:
It’s pride month, which means it’s time for a lot of noise — from corporate posturing to culture warriors’ endless competing grievances (sometimes they have a point, on both “sides”). There are any number of things ‘Pride’ *doesn’t* mean to me — but here’s what it does:
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 1, 2023
ICYMI – from @robsmithonline – https://t.co/BkQBbZ7zJx
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 3, 2023