Update: It appears Mayor Shyne has removed her Instagram post.
This past week the Supreme Court rendered decisions in two monumental cases. The first case Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina sought to end the use of race in college admissions. The other case 303 CREATIVE LLC ET AL. v. ELENIS ET AL. sought to allow a web designer to refuse to serve a ‘supposed’ gay couple.
After the decisions West Hollywood issued a statement and Mayor Shyne used the ruling to drum up donations for her Congress campaign. Her dramatic ‘Shut the fuck up’ video is meant to stir up anger and distort the merits of the cases.
First let’s deal with the Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina and the courts decision to end the use of race in college admissions. The two African American’s justices on the Supreme Court split. Justice Brown speaking of the effects of systemic racism, and Justice Thomas speaking to a color blind society. Despite the ruling against affirmative action that seems to outrage many, the voters in California approved Prop 209 in 1996. Prop 209 eliminated use of race in determining college admissions. The Supreme Court affirmed in 2023 what California voters approved in 1996.
I’d ask those city council members who are crying out on social media about the court’s decision on affirmative action where were they before the Supreme Court ruled on this issue? Perhaps instead of ‘wake the fuck up’, the Mayor might offer a vision on policy today that a Supreme Court of the future may also affirm.
The courts decision on the case of 303 CREATIVE LLC ET AL. v. ELENIS ET AL. the Christian web designer who wanted to ‘avoid’ working with gay couple’s is unique. This case used the court to ‘legislate’ an idea that had yet to happen. There was no ‘couple’ who sought to have a website built and no ‘injured party’. Courts weigh choices for injured parties but they do not decide ‘what if’, and that is the eggregious part of this decision.
Mayor Shyne used this court decision as an attack on the entire LGBTQ community, and that it rolled back protections for LGBTQ Americans. Shyne who is an attorney had the opportunity to call out the court for its ‘abuse of role’ because there was no injured couple, but instead she preached drama and elevated the confusion and anger.
But let’s face it, what if you were a gay web designer and a company contacted you to design an anti-same sex marriage website. You have a choice don’t you? Every day web designers, lawyers, or even the Mayor’s massage business decides which clients they choose to serve.
Didn’t our city council put forward a basic income for lgbtq residents that was struck down as unconstitutional? You can’t have it both ways. Be the discrimator and then complain when someone else chooses the same approach.
This Opinion: The web designer case is a free speech decision that protects everyone, gay and straightPress coverage of 303 Creative v. Elenis has characterized it as pro-religion and anti-LGBTQ rights. It’s not
By Brett G. Scharffs https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2023/7/1/23781404/303-creative-web-designer-case-is-a-free-speech-decision-that-protects-lgbtq-and-straight-people
Just another candidate trying to draw attention to herself and conflating the facts to stir up anger. Maybe the Mayor should ‘Shut the fuck up’.
Larry, 303 is like the baker. You’re not going to a site like the Knot and just setting something up there. They were asking her to participate in their wedding, she said no thank you, and then they went after her and lost. It’s pretty cut and dry. It’s not like a restaurant that serves everyone. If I’m a kosher caterer, you can’t force me to use my kosher kitchen to make baby-back ribs and oysters Rockefeller. Notice how it’s the Christians who are targeted. How come they never went to a conservative Muslim baker or website designer? Or an… Read more »
You are wrong. “They” did not. It was a pre-emptive strike by SCOTUS and a victory for plaintiff who had no standing to sue.
You can sue for whatever, but to have standing…you have to show damages. You can’t show potential damage. It’s like taxing unrealized gains.
Yup.
Sepi Shyne interview with IAPAC Iranian American Political Action Committee who endorses Sepi as she repeats misrepresentations about her “leadership” in West Hollywood and for the previous two decades. It seems as though one of Sepi’s first interactions with IAPAC and cohorts in Washington was instrumental in Lynn Hoppengarner’s resignation from Planning Commission, followed by an invitation to the White House followed by her campaign for the seat of Adam Schiff. In her fundraising efforts, she is behind Fred Savage but still begging for contributions. Now she is riding on the back of the recent Supreme Court decision to fuel… Read more »
[…] Mayor Shyne, Mayor Pro Tem Erickson, and Council member Byers have all accepted donations from UNITE HERE LOCAL 11. However, Mayor Shyne has yet to issue a statement about the disruption to West Hollywood’s tourism business during the July 4th holiday weekend. She did comment on the recent Supreme Court decisions in Washington DC, but that statement has since been removed. WEHOville has reposted the statement here. […]
After reading about mayor Sepi Shyne,I have very low expectations for her.This person should not be a congressperson as she will be in constant conflict with any other constituents or other politicians who have different opinions from her.She will not be a person easy to approach.
This wacky statement is just the latest nonsense from her.No doubt her political enemies and operatives are taking notes on her activities.
I think that her intention is to be part of “The Squad” or better yet, BE the Squad of the future. This is just a stepping stone for Sepi, always has been, always will be.
Waiting until Sepi compares herself with Rosa Parks referencing her small indignity at the coffee shop. Sepi wants carry a small indignity for a lifetime and have others pay for it. An activist for LGBTQ for two decades. Really?
Sepis’ “activism” on LGAB was nothing more than a facade, as she simply occupied a seat and sought favor with the political elite. It is worth mentioning that her “accolades” during her campaign for city council amounted to little more than creating a Facebook group for select neighbors, censoring those she disagreed with even then. Additionally, she shamelessly claimed credit for community-led projects despite having minimal involvement. This imposter is a joke among genuine activists, and has been for as long as we can remember.
An “indignity” of dubious authenticity.
If she was thrown out of a coffee shop I bet it had nothing to do with her being gay and everything to do with just being her.
Finding a way to get herself thrown out of a place would likely be a strategy to enhance her resumé. Right out of the Al Sharpton playbook.
….. or the Jussie Smollett playbook!
Sepi Shyne completely misunderstands what it means to be an American. She attempts to reshape values that she should be grateful for into her maladjusted issues that she prefers to carry on her back and funded on the backs of others. A classic charlatan.
Well she came here illegally, of course she doesn’t know dick about being American.
“This is purely about the right not to be compelled to create content (“speech,” broadly defined) contrary to your beliefs.”
So glad you said this!
Let me remind your readers that Chief Justice Roberts did indeed inject a “what if” in his swing vote decision to advance Obamacare’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance by calling it a tax, because the Constitution permits such a tax. He provided a way to give the proponents what they wanted by basically rewriting their argument.
As the case was presented it could not have passed but Roberts changed it so he could be the deciding vote in its favor.
Correction, excellent op-ed, Mr. Block!
Excellent reporting, Mr. Garcia!
Shyne proves one thing. If you basically have nothing to offer, go into politics and get elected like this person. She is as repugnant as her dreadful cabal … Erickson and Byers.
It appears it’s almost universally agreed by commenters here that Sepi is a horrible person. However in my mind, Lindsey Horvath has done far more long term and permanent damage to the city. I hope people don’t forget that.
Oh, we don’t.
“Courts weigh choices for injured parties but they do not decide ‘what if’, and that is the eggregious part of this decision.”
BINGO. Corrupt Supreme Court.
“It’s corrupt” because the decisions don’t agree with your far left ideology. If someone doesn’t think like you there is something wrong with them.
Don’t you know that disagreeing with communists is hate speech?
I have turned down clients for a variety of reasons in the past 10 years that has nothing to do with someone’s choice of who they have sex with but I sure DO NOT want the Govn’t telling me what I can & cannot do regarding my business choices! This article is a very good explanation of the court’s ruling as well as the sham that our Mayor tried to pull over everyone’s eyes to rattle the cages & shake down people for money. She’s simply outrageous & embarrassing as our Mayor! Thank you Larry.
So, do you support privately-owned lunch counters in the South refusing to serve Black customers? Cuz that’s what it sounds like. Discrimination against whole groups when you own a business open to the public is discrimination and bigotry. Speaking of bigotry, let’s try some on you: If you’re a “straight girl”, why don’t you get TF out of West Hollywood, go back in the kitchen, bake me some pie, and await further instructions from the Man of the House?? There. Doesn’t feel so good, huh? Yeah. You can dish it out but you can’t take it. Go study some history… Read more »
this is not the bakers case, would you build a website for the kkk? or do you have a right to decline that offier?