While the Supreme Court discusses 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, Newsweek looks at how each judge stands on same-sex marriage.
were"binding precedents" that she meant to"faithfully follow if confirmed."
Yet many LGBTQ activists were deeply concerned about her nomination, and several called for Barrett not to be confirmed, saying that her faith would lead her to rule against LGTBQ rights in future cases. That same concern is still relevant, as many have urged the conservative justice to recuse herself from, after members of the secretive Christian group People of Praise—of which—said that her"lifelong and continued" affiliation with the group would make her too biased to fairly judge the case.
In 2021, Barrett was not among the three conservative justices who granted a hearing to the Washington florist refusing to serve a same-sex couple. But during the first days of the case of, the judge has appeared warm to Smith's cause, telling her lawyer that her"strongest ground" is that the designer's work is"custom."nominated Justice Brett M.
In the same year, the advocacy group People for the American Way urged to stop Kavanaugh's confirmation, writing that"as far as anyone can tell, in his long career he has never ruled on or written about legal issues related to LGBTQ people. Withabout whether he agreed with the's decision, the conservative judge refused to answer the question—an evasiveness that many activists found concerning.
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