Judge throws out lawsuit against rainbow flags
A federal judge in the U.S. has thrown out a lawsuit against several members of Congress who, last year, displayed rainbow flags outside their offices in Washington D.C.. Chris Sevier, who previously tried to undermine the marriage equality act by suing to marry his laptop, claimed rainbow flags were part of a religion and shouldn’t be displayed by the government.
In his suit, in which he claimed $1 million in damages, he called homosexuality a “sect/denomination of the ‘sex-based self-asserted’ religion of ‘western postmodern expressive individualism moral relativism.’”
He said if the flag is to be displayed they should also display flags celebrating “polygamists, zoophiles, heterosexuals, and machinists.”
Judge Randolph D. Moss dismissed Sevier’s arguments, saying in court: “The gay rights movement bears no trappings of ‘religion’ as that concept is widely understood, and Sevier has not plausibly alleged that a reasonable person would perceive the display of the rainbow flags as religious in nature,” Moss wrote in his opinion. “Common sense… forecloses Sevier’s claim.”
Representative Alan Lowenthal, one of the representatives being sued, wrote in a statement: “I will continue to proudly fly the Pride Flag outside my office as a symbol of love, peace, equality, and humanity to every visitor to Capitol Hill. I will never give in to intolerance, even when cloaked in the guise of legality.”
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In his suit, in which he claimed $1 million in damages, he called homosexuality a “sect/denomination of the ‘sex-based self-asserted’ religion of ‘western postmodern expressive individualism moral relativism.’”
He said if the flag is to be displayed they should also display flags celebrating “polygamists, zoophiles, heterosexuals, and machinists.”
Judge Randolph D. Moss dismissed Sevier’s arguments, saying in court: “The gay rights movement bears no trappings of ‘religion’ as that concept is widely understood, and Sevier has not plausibly alleged that a reasonable person would perceive the display of the rainbow flags as religious in nature,” Moss wrote in his opinion. “Common sense… forecloses Sevier’s claim.”
Representative Alan Lowenthal, one of the representatives being sued, wrote in a statement: “I will continue to proudly fly the Pride Flag outside my office as a symbol of love, peace, equality, and humanity to every visitor to Capitol Hill. I will never give in to intolerance, even when cloaked in the guise of legality.”
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