Attorney Josh Minkler for the Southern District of Indiana, asserts the Archdiocese of Indianapolis had a constitutional right to terminate Joshua Payne-Elliott from his job as a world language and social studies teacher at Cathedral High School, despite contractual obligations he had with the school. The Trump administration filed a legal brief with the Indiana Supreme Court, formally saying a Catholic school has a First Amendment right to fire a teacher for entering into a same-sex marriage, The Washington Blade reported. The list includes Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges Kyle Duncan and James Ho as well as Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence Van Dyke, who was deemed 'not qualified' by the American Bar Association due to specific concerns about his ability to treat LGBTQ litigants fairly. Supreme Court nominees 'is teeming with anti-LGBT extremists and dangerous ideologues,' a press release noted.
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