On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a workplace-bias lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Corrections, and Justice Samuel Alito is hopping mad about it. Not because they’re not hearing the case—he agreed with his colleagues that for procedural reasons, the lower court ruling has to stand. No, he’s mad because the court allowed for same-sex marriages nationwide and now the LGBTQ+ community is demanding their full share of rights.
Alito took this opportunity to write a five-page screed against the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges marriage-equality case, a decision he’s been railing against ever since. Lower courts are taking that ruling too far, he said in this statement, and are ignoring his warnings about “the danger … that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government.” That warning, he wrote, “is not being heeded by our society.”
