Alito calls same-sex ‘marriage’ ruling a ‘decisive’ blow to religious liberty
A new collection of remarks by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito highlights the conservative jurist’s conviction that the forced redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples marked “perhaps the decisive point in our nation’s turn against religious liberty.” This month , So Ordered was published , which articulates Alito’s judicial philosophy through speeches he delivered over his career, organised by topic. ABC News noted that among the subjects is 2015’s fateful Obergefell v. Hodges ruling in which the nation’s highest court forced all 50 states to recognise homosexual unions as marriages. Alito was among the dissenters. The justice, a Catholic appointed by former President George W. Bush, has discussed the case various times in the past as captured in the book, including a 2018 speech explaining that he “expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry — or, if you like, with dignitary harm — would drive believers out of public ...