Federal judge in Texas rules in favor of religious businesses over LGBTQ discrimination claims

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A federal judge ruled Sunday that for-profit businesses that have sincerely held religious beliefs do not have to abide by LGBTQ discrimination claims, a blow to the previous ruling in the Supreme Court that protected sexual orientation and gender identity from discrimination, according to The Dallas Morning News.

This ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, a George W. Bush nominee, paved the way for Braidwood Management Inc., a Christian health care company in Texas, to not have to adhere to LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections with the rationale falling in accord with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment, the Morning News reported.

The protections had come from Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, according to the Morning News.

This new provision by O'Connor's ruling also allows other religious groups, such as nonprofits, to refuse to hire LGBTQ people and fire them for their LGBTQ identities, the paper reports.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-judge-in-texas-rules-in-favor-of-religious-businesses-over-lgbtq-discrimination-claims/ar-AAQhj7f

Not sure how this is a blow to a previous Supreme Court ruling. It's likely to be overturned on appeal.

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1. Where does Braidwood Management Inc. go to church?

What's the corporation's attendance record? Does it tithe? Has it been baptized? How does a corporation have "sincerely held religious beliefs"?

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2. great now I can discriminate against xtians based on my held beliefs and their 2000 year record

of atrocities against lgbt people

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3. Using this logic

I can start a religion that speaks out against stupid people… then refuse to hire them. Guess that takes care of the unvaccinated.