Alito Renews Criticism Of Supreme Court's Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently renewed his criticism of the high court's historic same-sex marriage ruling, addressing it in a statement about why the court was declining to hear a case involving a Missouri lawsuit.

The case in question is Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney, and it revolves around a "dispute where jurors were dismissed from the employment discrimination case after they voiced religious concerns about same-sex relationships."

Alito said that he agreed with the Supreme Court's decision not to hear the case, but claimed that the decision "exemplifies the danger" he predicted back in 2015.

"Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government," Alito wrote.

In 2015, the Supreme Court voted in favor of allowing same-sex couples the right to marry but made it clear that this did NOT make it okay for people who do not support gay marriage for religious reasons or otherwise to have that fact held against them.

Fewer than ten years later, it appears as though that's exactly what's happening.