Conservatives try to convince the Supreme Court to embrace transphobia
By Zach Ford @ ThinkProgress
https://thinkprogress.org/conservatives-try-to-convince-supreme-court-to-embrace-transphobia-9d2d3a350212#.i3iys5gvhThis spring, the Supreme Court will consider Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., a case about whether 17-year-old Gavin Grimm should be allowed to use the boys' bathroom at his Virginia high school. . . .
And this week, those arguing against the Department's guidance recognizing and affirming Grimm and other transgender students like him submitted their amicus briefs to the Court making their case. . . .
The briefs stem from the usual opponents of LGBT equality, including the Family Research Council, the Liberty Counsel, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Family Policy Alliance (the advocacy arm of Focus on the Family), and the Alliance Defending Freedom. There is also a brief from a group of major religious organizations — including the Catholic bishops, the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — and another from 80 members of Congress, all of whom are Republicans. . . .
Here are some of the themes that emerge from the documents. . . .
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The themes include all the usual false and misleading arguments the right wing has been using lately. For a change though they also included their specifically religious objections arguing that we are an infringement on religious freedom.
They even included this, so credit goes to them for honesty.
QuoteThe Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which was joined by the General Conference of The Seventh-Day Adventists, argue in their brief that if transgender people are protected in education, that precedent could then extend to housing, health care, and employment.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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