Justice Samuel Alito is concerned. What is it this time, you might wonder? Well, the Republican-appointed justice wrote Tuesday that he’s worried about a Missouri case which, as he put it, “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.
” He added that the case “exemplifies the danger that I anticipated in Obergefell v. Hodges,” the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that approved same-sex marriage. Alito, of course, dissented in Obergefell, where he expressed his anxiety that people who hold such 'traditional' beliefs would be “labeled as bigots and treated as such” by the government. So on Tuesday he wrote of his fear that the admonition not to use the Obergefell decision in that way “is not being heeded by our society.