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Amy Coney Barrett Won’t Say if Same-Sex Marriage Rights are Protected, Uses Anti-LGBTQ Buzzword ‘Preference’ to Describe Sexual Orientation: WATCH

Andy Towle October 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Senator Dianne Feinstein grilled SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett on whether she thinks marriage equality is protected. Barrett wouldn’t say, and also used the anti-LGBTQ buzzphrase “sexual preference” to describe orientation, indicating that she believes it is a choice.

Feinstein’s asked Barrett about the DOMA and Obergefell rulings: “Both decisions were decided by a 5-4 margin. Justice Ginsburg was in the majority. Justice Scalia dissented in both cases. You said in your acceptance speech for this nomination that Justice Scalia’s philosophy is your philosophy. Do you agree with this particular point of Justice Scalia’s view that the U.S. Constitution does not afford gay people the fundamental right to marry?”

Replied Barrett: “If I were confirmed, you would be getting Justice Barrett not Justice Scalia so I don’t think that anybody should assume that just because Justice Scalia decided a decision a certain way that I would too. But i’m not going to express a view on whether I agree or disagree with Justice Scalia for the same reasons that I’ve been giving. Now, Justice Ginsburg, with her characteristic pithiness, used this to describe how a nominee should comport herself at a hearing. No hints, no previews, no forecasts. That had been the practice of nominees before her but everybody calls it the Ginsburg rule because she stated it so concisely and it’s been the practice of every nominee since. So I can’t, and I’m sorry to not be able to embrace or disavow Justice Scalia’s position but I really can’t do that on any point of law.”

“Well that’s really too bad because it’s really a fundamental point for large numbers of people in this country,” Feinstein continued. “I understand you don’t want to answer these questions directly but you identify yourself with a Justice that you, like him, would be a consistent vote to roll back hard fought freedoms and protections for the LGBT community. And what I was hoping that you would say is that this would be a point of difference where those freedoms would be respected and you haven’t said that.”

“Senator, I have no agenda and I do want to be clear that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not ever discriminate on the basis of sexual preference,” Barrett replied. “Like racism, I think discrimination is important. On the questions of law, however, I just, because I’m a sitting judge and because you can’t answer questions without going through the judicial process, can’t give answers to those very specific questions.”

Marriage equality portion begins at 24:09.

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Coney Barrett also refused to say whether she thinks Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided.

Amy Coney Barrett won't answer Feinstein's questions about whether she thinks Roe was wrongly decided pic.twitter.com/kgSQ3rckux

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 13, 2020

Topics: Featured, Supreme Court, towleroad More Posts About: Amy Coney Barrett, Dianne Feinstein, DOMA, gay marriage, law, marriage equality, Obergefell v. Hodges, same-sex marriage, SCOTUS

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