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Former members of Amy Coney Barrett’s secretive faith group, the People of Praise, are calling on the US supreme court justice to recuse herself from an upcoming case involving gay rights, saying Barrett’s continued affiliation with the Christian group means she has participated in discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ people.

The former members are part of a network of β€œsurvivors” of the controversial charismatic group who say Barrett’s β€œlifelong and continued” membership in the People of Praise make her too biased to fairly adjudicate an upcoming case that will decide whether private business owners have a right to decline services to potential clients based on their sexual orientation.

They point to Barrett’s former role on the board of Trinity Schools Inc, a private group of Christian schools that is affiliated with the People of Praise and, in effect, barred children of same-sex parents from attending the school.

A faculty guide published in 2015, the year Barrett joined the board, said β€œblatant sexual immorality” – which the guide said included β€œhomosexual acts” – had β€œno place in the culture of Trinity Schools”. The discriminatory policies were in place before and after Barrett joined.

The schools’ attitude, the former People of Praise members said, reflect the Christian group’s staunchly anti-gay beliefs and adherence to traditional family values, including – they say – expelling or ostracizing members of the People of Praise β€œcommunity” who came out as gay later in life or their gay children.

β€œI don’t believe that someone in her position, who is a member of this group, could put those biases aside, especially in a decision like the one coming up,” said Maura Sullivan, a 46-year-old who was raised in the People of Praise community in South Bend, Indiana. Sullivan identifies as bisexual and recalls coming out to her parents, who were members of the People of Praise, when she was 19.

β€œThey decided that I wasn’t allowed to be around my sister, who was 13 at the time, without them around, because I could β€˜influence’ her in bad ways. Stuff like that. So I had a tenuous relationship with my family,” she said. β€œTo be cut off from my family was the ultimate loss of community.” Sullivan and her parents, who are no longer members of the faith group, have since repaired their relationship, she said.

Questions about the People of Praise’s attitude toward LGBTQ+ members and their families, and Trinity Schools’ policies, have resurfaced because the supreme court will hear oral arguments on 5 December in the case of 303 Creative LLC v Elenis.
Amy Coney Barrett urged to step away from gay rights case because of faith affiliation
Bob Lai diaspora
It strikes me that her affiliation with PoP is exactly why she will never recuse herself in cases predicated on religious notions of immorality.

Just like we'll never see Clarence Thomas recuse himself from any ruling on January 6 … despite his wife being implicated in same,

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