Supreme Court rejects Texas’s lawsuit against California over LGBTQ adoption law

Texas allows adoption agencies to refuse to work with LGBTQ parents. California banned state-funded travel to Texas in response. Texas cried discrimination.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott surrounded himself with fast food sandwiches to sign the “Save Chick-fil-A” bill into law.
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In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court rejected a request by the state of Texas to allow them to file a complaint against the state of California for banning state-funded travel to the Lone Star State in response to an anti-LGBTQ law.

Texas, under the administration of Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and elected Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), passed a law in 2017 that allowed foster care and adoption agencies to refuse to work with potential parents who don’t follow the agencies’ religious principles, even if they receive state funds. So California put the state on a lists that state institutions cannot use state funds to send staff, board members, or students to.

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When California banned travel to Texas in 2017, Gov. Abbott joked that California businesses would “flee over taxation and regulation” and move to Texas. Three years later, Texas filed a lawsuit, claiming the Golden State was discriminating against them by not paying for state employees’ travel.

Paxton claimed in the motion filed with the Supreme Court in February 2020 that California’s law is unconstitutional. While the Constitution does not ban states from treating other states differently, Paxton argued that California’s ban interferes with interstate commerce by placing unfair limitations on business.

He claimed, “Nothing requires California to fund interstate travel… but when California chooses to do so, it must not invidiously discriminate against other States and those States’ citizens and businesses.”

The motion even trolled LGBTQ advocates by…

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