Catholic School's Groundbreaking Lawsuit Could Strike Down LGBT Laws Across the Nation

On Wednesday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) will file a powerful groundbreaking lawsuit against a local Ohio sexual orientation gender identity (SOGI) non-discrimination law that some say may become the most significant religious freedom case since Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018). This lawsuit aims to protect a small Catholic school from stifling LGBT laws that cut to the heart of religious education.

Last year, the City of South Euclid passed a SOGI ordinance similar to the Equality Act in Congress and the Ohio Fairness Act currently in the state legislature. The Lyceum, a Catholic classical school in South Euclid, will sue the city on Wednesday, claiming the SOGI ordinance violates the First Amendment.

"The Lyceum is a small, classical, Catholic school established back in 2003. But unfortunately, in 2018, the City of South Euclid passed a law that threatens the Lyceum’s very existence," ADF legal counsel Christiana Holcomb said in a video on the case.

"Religious schools like The Lyceum must be free to operate consistently with their faith without fear of unjust government punishment—that is their right under the First Amendment," she said in a statement. "But the city’s ordinance threatens this small school with criminal penalties simply for selecting faculty and students who share its religious convictions."

"The Lyceum’s parents, students, and faculty have agreed to live by community standards rooted in Catholic teaching. The city’s hostile regulation not only threatens the school, it also undermines the rights of parents and students who deliberately seek out this unique, faith-based education," Holcomb declared.

Local activists suggest the lawsuit could rise to the Supreme Court and strike down the SOGI laws expanding across the nation.

"South Euclid passed one of the most offensive and egregious sexual orientation gender identity laws that I have ever seen, and Christian ministries across the country should take note of what these laws would mean to them," Aaron Baer, president of Citizens for Community Values (CCV), told PJ Media. His organization opposed the ordinance during the legislative process and will host the press conference on the lawsuit with ADF and the Lyceum. "The Lyceum is standing up and saying enough is enough."

Baer called the local ordinance an "incredibly broad law that is devastating to Christian ministries." According to him, the law imposes criminal penalties on individuals, businesses, and ministries that operate according to the teachings that marriage is between one man and one woman and that biological sex overrides gender identity. Every school, business, and ministry must open women's bathrooms to biological men who identify as women and celebrate same-sex marriage and transgender identity.

According to the CCV president, the ordinance has no exemption for religious freedom or freedom of conscience.

"This law effectively prohibits ministries from operating according to the Christian worldview," Baer explained. "This will be the next major religious freedom case in the country. It has implications far beyond South Euclid as the Ohio General Assembly is considering one of these laws."

"Everyone needs to take note that these things are blatantly unconstitutional," the CCV president declared.

Baer suggested the case will reach the highest court in the land, and set a precedent for SOGI laws across the country. "We believe it is going to end up at the Supreme Court," he said. "The nature of this lawsuit and the fact that these things are popping up all over the country, sooner or later the Supreme Court’s going to have to deal with this issue. These laws are so pervasive and so contrary to the First Amendment that they’re going to have to speak to this issue eventually."

The CCV president suggested this lawsuit is "the first of its kind in the nation," a groundbreaking effort to oppose the expansion of sexual orientation-gender identity nondiscrimination laws.

Whether or not the lawsuit is as groundbreaking or as powerful as Baer suggests, the ADF effort is certainly designed to protect the small Catholic school.

In the video, one female student said the Lyceum has "taught me to think for myself," and "seeing this place gone would be such a knife to my chest."
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Pray pray pray the gay away.

Please god yes

Times Are A-Changin. I can feel it.

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Hallelujah

Thank goodness Trump won. This would be hopeless under Clinton's supreme court

And when we get Amy to replace (((RBG))) it'll be a done deal.
Praise the Lord for He is good!

Sad.

Sure give enough shit to go into a jewess's womb.

The absolute state of protestantism.

lol sad

Alabama is about to pass a state law that will bring abortion back to the supreme Court. This is why we voted for Trump.

It's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, prot! People like you are the reason we are in this mess in the first place.

Praise be to God! Got any sauce on that, b0ss?

No more women justices please.

I'll be sure to put a word in to the priest in mass today.

Even though she is a devout Catholic mother of seven children? Even though she is literally our best bet to end Roe v. Wade and turn the tables on the satanic left?

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Women leaders are a punishment from God.

He destroys nations for it, fag enabler.

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Shut up, lefty scum.

Eh, I see this one as akin to Deborah for now. She doesn’t hold a position of authority in the church.

Except they aren't.

We get it, you hate women, but just because a ruler is a woman doesn't mean God is punishing people. Besides, Amy isn't a ruler or a leader, she is a judge that will have 8 other men to judge with her.
Modern problems caused by leftists require modern solutions. Amy is that solution. Wether you like it or not, it is inevitable.

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Correction:
I forgot Sotomayor is still on the bench, but it still changes nothing. With Amy the right's majority only increases and thus a much higher chance to strike down Roe v Wade and save countless lives.
Sage for double post.

lol no

Ok, be honest … how many of you ITT believe that the Supreme Court can just wake up one morning and overturn Roe v Wade? Do you realize that SCOTUS is not like the legislative body, right? It takes one of three things to overturn a Supreme Court decision:
1] Amending the Constitution. (Very difficult)
2] A 2/3rds majority of State legislative bodies. (Almost impossible)
3] A whole new court case where the decision of the court would take precedence over the previous rulinig. (Literal lightning in a bottle)

Even if the Supreme Court were suddenly 9 very conservative, anti-abortion Christian justices, they can't "just overturn" RvW. I'm sorry, but that's how it works.

Based Gatoliks

Isaiah 3:11-12
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
My people – children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.

Not exactly helping your case.


In the decision of Roe v. Wade the authors explicitly stated that if the personhood of the child in question were established, the whole case is unravelled, and in that case (even according to them) abortion is murder. The authors of the decision left it to future cases to decide that the personhood of the child can be established.

And yet you are proven wrong with the two pics related. So clearly you are taking that verse out of context.

1 Timothy 2
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Tell me what changes the words written above.

Clearly whenever you go against the natural order that our Lord set up, you will lose. Whether in this grievance or any other "social justice" grievance.

Deborah was a prophet. That a woman may prophesy does not mean that a woman may lead.
As for Jadwiga, she was appointed "king" because of unique and particular political circumstances, and that she was a good woman and a saint does not mean that women should lead nations, churches, corporations or homes. Read Isaiah 3, you will see that there is nothing out of context, the text means exactly what it means.

good point

It doesn't change anything in the words related, and yet Poland had a Queen that was able to mass convert pagans to Jesus' Church. That doesn't sound like a punishment, but liberation from sin and idolatry.
Has to do with women in church, not running nations.
As for this, the context of it is the kings being controled by his wives or concubines not an appointed queen that holds the titles to the land. A Queen appointed by God.

Either God is arbitrary in His words or you are interpreting it wrong. You can't have both.

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Considering Poland nowadays is plagued with catholic, it IS punishment.

Is that why prot nations are being swarmed with Islam and other invaders while Poland is leading the charge against such degeneracy?
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The catholic church specifically asks for refugees.

The context of Isaiah 3 is women running around unchecked, indulging their vanity and obtaining positions of power. Your idea that God wants women to be submissive at church and at home but not in the political realm doesn't make any sense, why is God so arbitrary about church and the home? The answer is simple, He made women by nature unfit to lead. There was once a good queen of Poland, but it is not normal or desirable to have women leading nations. Do you really think it's just a coincidence that the very same time women are being granted more and more rights priveliges and authority that the Western world is increasingly Godless and degenerate?

It's worth mentioning that Jadwiga became monarch because of the political machinations of the men in her country, not because of any type of egalitarian nonsense. The noblemen of Poland picked her to lead, God used her to do good, that doesn't mean that God endorses feminism.

It's called the smoke of satan
(liberalism/communism, -isms of the protestant deformation)
The Church is welcoming them because the secular government run by prots invites them into Europe because the secular governments feel bad that protestant USA and Jewish Israel are destroying their homes.
The Church welcomeing the illegals is an unfortunate side effect of Christ like altruism. Maybe if secular and Protestant governments kept their greed to themselves and left the ME and North Africa alone, Europe wouldn't be in this mess and the Church wouldn't feel obligated to take care of the poor.
Again they are invited to come and ferried over to Europe by secular NGOs that receive donations from leftists across the spiritual spectrum.

Stop inviting the illegals and stop bombing their countries and maybe they wouldn't feel the need to come to Europe.
though again, I see Islam invading those prot countries as God's way of humbling them, come home to Rome and follow Poland's lead, only than shall you be free

Look, im not blanket endorsing women become or seek leadership, nor am I endorsing Femenism. Obviously a righteous woman can lead if God puts her in position. But NEWS FLASH AMY Barrett isn't a leader, she is a judge.

Think about it, if President Trump nominated yet another man to the SC, the Demonrats would just put on another donkey show and make false claims against him like they did Kavanaugh. With Amy they can't. We can throw #BelieveWomen right back at them and make the non NPC's (hopefully) rethink their positions in life. We can throw the sexist and bigot card right back at the Demonrats and turn they radical feminists against the Demonrat party.

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Agreed 100% with Barrett being the right choice. We have to take what we can get in clownworld and she does seem like a good woman, but feminized Christianity is a big problem so I argue about it on obscure imageboards.

The church does something and it's the evil protestant's fault.

Repent.

Bear your own fruits.

Speak for yourself Protestant and check your own eye.
It's literally protestantism's fault that Christendom was shattered and became the modern clownworld we see today.

Amen, amen, but the "catholic" church has been doing this ever since its inception in 325 AD.

Quit heaping coals on your head.

So please don't blame other people for your own sins.

Quit IP hopping and harassing us.

The church cries as it imports more muslims to Europe.

Love your enemies.

And send them to hell all the same.

Begone Satan.

we have to keep a repbulicunt in just so when ginsbitch finally kicks the bucket the right gets another pick….there is no reason to not push for another right leaning person on the supreme court.