Sotomayor asserts Pulse shooting as anti-LGBT hate crime in dissent.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Controversial Dissent Opinion

In a recent dissent opinion, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made bold claims about the Pulse nightclub shooting, falsely asserting that it was a targeted hate crime against the LGBT community. This opinion was delivered during the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, where the Court ruled 6-3 in favor of a Christian website owner’s right to refuse making wedding websites for gay couples.

“Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class,” Sotomayor wrote, expressing her dissent. She further argued that this ruling reflects a “backlash to the movement for liberty and equality for gender and sexual minorities.”

Sotomayor then proceeded to provide examples of what she considered to be backlash against the LGBT community, including the Pulse nightclub shooting. However, it is important to note that subsequent investigations and the trial of the shooter’s widow revealed that the attack was not motivated by anti-LGBT sentiments.

“Or the Pulse nightclub massacre, the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history?” Sotomayor questioned, implying that it was a result of America’s “social system of discrimination” that endangered LGBT individuals.

Contrary to Sotomayor’s claim, it was established that the shooter was unaware that Pulse was a gay club and chose the target randomly after his initial plan to attack Disney fell through. The Huffington Post reported that the shooter had never been to Pulse before and even asked about the whereabouts of women shortly before the attack.

Sotomayor also referenced the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard as an example of anti-LGBT hatred. However, journalist Stephen Jimenez’s extensive research concluded that Shepard’s death was not a hate crime but rather the result of a drug deal gone wrong. Jimenez’s book, The Book of Matt, revealed that Shepard had previous sexual encounters with one of his killers.

Fellow Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch strongly criticized Sotomayor’s dissent, stating that it completely distorted the facts of the case. “It is difficult to read the dissent and conclude we are looking at the same case,” Gorsuch remarked.

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