Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit over California travel ban

[Elderberry]

Houston Chronicle 4/27/2021

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider Texas' challenge to California's ban on state-funded business trips to Texas and other states deemed to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

California adopted the ban following a 2017 Texas law that allows foster care and adoption agencies to deny services for religious beliefs.

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said they would have allowed the lawsuit to go forward at the high court.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Supreme-Court-rejects-Texas-suit-over-California-16131958.php

[Elderberry]

U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Ken Paxton’s challenge to California law banning state-funded travel to Texas

Texas Tribune by Karen Brooks Harper April 26, 2021

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/26/texas-california-travel-ban-lawsuit/

California banned state-funded travel to Texas because of a 2017 religious-refusal law for adoptions in the state, which critics called discriminatory against LGBTQ families.

In June 2017, shortly after the Texas Legislature moved to allow foster care agencies to use religious reasons to deny same-sex couples the right to foster children, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra blasted the law that he said "allows foster care agencies to discriminate against children in foster care and potentially disqualify LGBT families from the state’s foster and adoption system."

The law was authored by state Rep. James Frank, a Wichita Falls Republican who now chairs the House Human Services Committee, and allows faith-based organizations to deny services for certain contraceptives and refuse to contract with organizations that don’t share their religious beliefs. It requires providers to refer parents or children to a different agency if they refuse to provide services themselves.

Paxton, who has made religious liberty a top priority of his office, at the time criticized the California statute as an unconstitutional and misguided attempt to police other states.

“California is attempting to punish Texans for respecting the right of conscience for foster care and adoption providers,” he said.

Among the states California has targeted with its travel ban is North Carolina, after the state enacted a law requiring state agencies to maintain separate-sex bathrooms and changing facilities.

More at link.

[Sled Dog]

The government of the People's Republic of Californiastan has every right to decide to refuse to fund Californiastan junkets to Texas if that's what they want.

Texas really has nothing to say about that.

Texas should reciprocate. 

Texas should get a coalition of pro-America states to all refuse to fund conventions to the People's Republic of California.

THIS should be the obvious first step in the coming civil war between the Americans and the socialist fascist racists of the Rodent Party.   Start dividing the nation on geographic lines.