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NORTH CENTRAL OHIO –Earlier this month social conservatives did a double take as two Supreme Court Justices dropped a bombshell by joining their liberal counterparts and redefining the 1964 workplace sex discrimination law to cover “transgender” people.
In a divided 6-3 opinion, Justices Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts along with four liberal Justices ruled against a business and its right to manage its operation. The issue in dispute involved a Michigan funeral home which declined an employee’s request to violate its sex-specific dress code by dressing as the opposite sex when meeting with grieving family members.
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Local faith leaders are convinced the repercussions of this shocking court opinion will be a “supreme disaster” and open up a bigger can of worms.
“LGBT activists failed to achieve their goals through the democratic process so they bypassed the legislative process and obtained their goal thru judicial fiat,” says Pastor J.C. Church of Victory in Truth Ministries.
“Federal judges are bending the meaning of words to suit their personal preference. As a result, this decision will bring havoc to gender-specific bathrooms, school rules and K-12 school curricula. How can anyone trust a grown man when he doesn’t even know what the word “sex” means?”
Trump-appointee Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion creating the new policy.
“Is this the best we can come up with?” asks Pastor Church. “We should revisit how the President chooses his judicial nominees. We were told the Federalist Society vetted Neil Gorsuch, that he was strong on religious liberty, and was considered an originalist who interprets based on original text. We were wrong.”
“When the Court usurps the role of Congress, as it does today, the public understandably becomes confused about who the policy makers really are in our system of separated powers, and inevitably becomes cynical about the oft-repeated aspiration that judges base their decisions on law rather than on personal preference.”
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a dissenting opinion against the majority writing “When the Court usurps the role of Congress, as it does today, the public understandably becomes confused about who the policy makers really are in our system of separated powers, and inevitably becomes cynical about the oft-repeated aspiration that judges base their decisions on law rather than on personal preference.”
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Pastor John Bouquet of Savannah Bethel Baptist believes Christians cannot trust the courts to stand for justice and righteousness. “These judges follow case law instead of constitutional law. This month Judge Roberts also sided with the liberal wing opposing the First Amendment rights of churches to peaceably assemble.
“These justices know full well the magnitude of the dysfunction their “new legislation” will be bringing to shelters for battered women, sports leagues for girls, and the redefined social status of women. Consequently, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has been effectively nullified.” Pastor Bouquet added, “Their majority opinion even admits their court opinion will be creating more chaos by setting in motion more litigation.”
Pastor Robert Kurtz of Mansfield Baptist Temple points out that twenty-nine states who did not recognize sexual orientation and gender identity in their laws will now be forced to comply.
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“This decision cuts off the right of individual states who have diverse convictions on fairness and freedom. When society attempts to define standards apart from Divine law, it creates confusion and dysfunction. Little thought is required to understand that religious freedoms, parents’ rights, and even campus speech, will be decimated by such a ruling.
“The mindset presented in this ruling illustrates the depravity of man apart from GOD,” says Pastor Kurtz. “GOD gave us this warning for when we ignore Him: ‘professing themselves to be wise they became fools.”
All three clergy agree biology is not bigotry; they believe that all people may be equal, but men and women are not the same.
View the Alliance Defending Freedom video below on the Michigan funeral parlor involved in the Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County.
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