After losing at the appellate level, state officials turned to the U.S. Supreme Court. They asked the justices to consider the dismissals and determine whether they amounted to religious discrimination.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to get involved, but Justice Samuel Alito published a statement emphasizing the importance of the issues involved.<\/p>\n
Whether jurors can be dismissed based on their religious beliefs about sexuality is a \u201cvery serious and important question,\u201d he wrote, one that he anticipated when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this case, the court below reasoned that a person who still holds traditional religious views on questions of sexual morality is presumptively unfit to serve on a jury in a case involving a party who is a lesbian. That holding exemplifies the danger that I anticipated in Obergefell v. Hodges, namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be \u2018labeled as bigots and treated as such\u2019 by the government,\u201d Alito said.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court won\u2019t yet consider whether potential jurors can be dismissed based on their religious beliefs. | By @kelsey_dallas<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/8yVvoH8BE8<\/a><\/p>\n — Deseret News (@Deseret) February 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n