Justice Alito begins full-court press on LGBTQ rights by claiming that marriage equality ruling censors people

Official 2007 portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito gave a rare public speech, delivering the keynote address for an event sponsored by the conservative judicial group The Federalist Society. During the speech, he declared that the “great challenges before the Supreme Court going forward will be to protect freedom of speech,” because previous rulings and lawmakers have limited or plan to limit it.

He specifically mentioned that Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that cemented marriage equality, as such a case. He then defended Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the 2018 ruling that sided with the owner of a bakery who refused to serve a same-sex couple on the basis of religious liberty.

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“You can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman,” Justice Alito alleged. “Until recently, that’s what the vast majority of Americans thought. Now, it’s considered bigotry. That this would happen after our decision in Obergefell should not have come as a surprise,” citing his dissenting minority opinion in the case.

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