Amy Coney Barrett is an Absolute Threat to LGBTQ Rights
Early reports are suggesting that Seventh Circuit U.S. Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett is the odds on favorite to be nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a champion for LGBTQ equality. Amy Coney Barrett’s history tells a story of anti-LGBTQ ideology, opposing basic rights thought to be settled law, and an anti-choice ideology out of step with popular opinion.
Coney Barrett defended the Supreme Court’s dissenters on the landmark marriage equality case of Obergefell v. Hodges, questioning the role of the court in deciding the case:
[Chief Justice Roberts, in his dissent,] said, those who want same-sex marriage, you have every right to lobby in state legislatures to make that happen, but the dissent’s view was that it wasn’t for the court to decide...So I think Obergefell, and what we’re talking about for the future of the court, it’s really a who decides question.” - Coney Barrett
Coney Barrett says Title IX protections do not extend to transgender Americans, claiming it’s a “strain on the text” to reach that interpretation:
https://www.hrc.org/news/amy-coney-barrett-is-an-absolute-threat-to-lgbtq-rights
The article is a few days old but the information from Know Your Rights and Human Rights Campaign is very important.
= new reply since forum marked as read
