Law & Crime
In a Facebook post on Monday, Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Andrew McDonald criticized Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court for what McDonald believed was the profound hypocrisy of Thomas’s desire to strip adults of the freedom to marry a person of their own choosing.
“Mr. Justice Thomas had much to say today about my loving marriage,” McDonald posted online, according to a CNBC report. “Oddly he didn’t have much to say about his ‘Loving’ marriage.”
The reported post was a dig at Thomas’s position on same-sex marriage in comparison with Thomas’s own interracial union.
McDonald married his husband Charles in 2009. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages must be permitted and recognized by states nationwide as a matter of U.S. constitutional law in 2015. Some states allowed same-sex marriages before 2015.
In last Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling which overturned Roe v. Wade, however, Thomas authored his own concurring opinion which specifically urged the high court to rethink its ruling on same-sex marriage.
Thomas’s concurrence drew McDonald’s ire. McDonald and many others have specifically pointed to a personal connection between Thomas and matters of prohibited marriage.
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Gay State Supreme Court Justice Accuses Justice Clarence Thomas of Marriage Hypocrisy
