An activist group is calling on two SCOTUS justices to recuse themselves from the LGBTQ rights cases currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Take Back The Court is demanding Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito recuse themselves from all pending LGBTQ rights cases after they met with leaders from the antigay hate group International Organization for the Family (IOF) last month.
A photo of the two justices smiling gleefully alongside IOF’s leader Brian Brown was circulated on Twitter on October 29, causing alarm bells to go off among many members of the LGBTQ community and their allies.
Great day at US Supreme Court #SCOTUS with #CardinalMueller, Princess Gloria #ThurnundTaxis with Justices #SamuelAlito and #BrettKavanaugh pic.twitter.com/vi87VCzRxs
— Brian S. Brown (@briansbrown) October 29, 2019
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The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in multiple cases that could have serious implications for LGBT employment rights. NOM has filed an amicus brief in at least one of the cases, urging the court to rule against LGBT rights. NOM advocates for what they claim is “traditional marriage,” and hope to take marriage rights away from same sex couples. The group’s president is Brian Brown, who boasted of a “great day at the US Supreme Court” when posting the contentious photo to his Twitter account on October 29. Brown is also the president of the World Congress of Families, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Brown himself has called LGBTQ rights “invented concepts,” sponsored an anti-trans bus tour of America, accused President Obama of “normalizing pedophilia” for his support of LGBTQ equality, and advocated against same-sex couples adopting children.
Why Justices and Alito and Kavanaugh, who likes beer, posed for pictures with him as they’re considering whether LGBTQ workers should be protected from discrimination under civil rights law is anyone’s guess.
We sent the following letter to Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanuagh and Samuel Alito after a photo surfaced of the justices posing with leaders of the National Organization for Marriage. Read it here: https://t.co/K9WPpY0e49
— Take Back the Court (@TakeBacktheCt) November 6, 2019
In its letter, Take Back The Court writes:
The credibility and impartiality of the current Supreme Court is in tatters. Posing for photographs with the president of an advocacy organization that has filed briefs in matters pending before the court makes a mockery of Chief Justice Roberts’ assertion that a judge’s role is to impartially call balls and strikes. If you refuse to recuse yourselves, this incident will further illustrate the urgent need for structural reform of the Supreme Court in order to restore a Court that understands its role is to protect individual rights and our democracy.
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Mack
I’ve been saying that and posting that every since I saw the picture and read the article.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Same. I have contacted the Human Rights Commission and Lambda Legal asking them to get involved I urge every single reader of this post to do the same
iron
the urgent need for structural reform of the Supreme Court in order to restore a Court that understands its role is to protect individual rights and our democracy.
hate comes from ignorance of the force matter. in other words abandon intellectual dishonesty. we are just a bunch of humans trying to survive and live in a non-violent existence
Cam
They showed allegiance to a group whose single goal is to harm us. They need to recuse themselves. Just like Thomas should have recused himself from cases tied to the organization that pays his wife, or Scalia shouldn’t have taken paid for trips by organizations that had ties to business before the court.
JaredMacBride
I’m a lot more concerned that the Justices met with Cardinal Mueller.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Absolutely no different than if Supreme Court justices in the civil Rights area had met with the Grand Dragon of the klu Klux Klan…
Brian Brown is disgusting vile abhorrent noxious puke whose life obsession is to stick his fat morbidly obese arse into our lives seeking to deny us equality and equal rights.
The Founding Fathers look down and weep upon how these noxious actions habe tainted a system they worked so hard to make sure was fair and unbiased…
Vince
After NOM lost to the Supreme Court Brian Brown helped export the hate to France when they had their marriage equality fight and later Russia where he was involved in the gay propaganda law and also stopping gay adoptions. The shit head has made his life 100% about harming gay people.
No doubt he’s got some real vile plans now that they’ve got their people in. . There is no other reason he’s there standing next to them.
jcoberkrom
This Republican Supreme Court is a danger to everyone.
Josh447
This is a good move to request recusal. That they recuse themselves was also my first thought upon viewing that picture. They might as well have been standing next to hooded KKK dragon/members. I look forward to a response.
masterwill7
I can not tell you guys enough to stand up and go fight this ridiculous behavior of your judges!!!! This is unacceptable and wrong! This can cause your rights being stripped and taken for life! It tarts with one thing, and before you know it, you don’t have any rights at all anymore! I’m lucky to live in The Netherlands (gay heaven:)), but for those who live in the US, my advise is to scream and shout!
Invader7
Get them out of there.PERMANENTLY. They’re ( the arse holes in the picture ) are Neo-NAZI FASCIST monsters.