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Opinion | Muslim Prisoner, Transgender Strip Search
Religious liberty laws protect everyone, and here’s another example.
www.wsj.com
As the WSJ reports:
“The moral tenets of his faith” prohibit him “from exposing his body to a woman who is not his wife,” writes Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. When the inmate objected to a 2016 strip search, the warden responded that the transgender guard “is a male and is qualified to complete these duties.” Prison officials threatened discipline if the inmate raised more complaints.
But as Judge Sykes explains, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (Rluipa) “prohibits a prison from substantially burdening an inmate’s religious exercise unless doing so is the least restrictive means to further a compelling governmental interest.” She says the law covers the sincere beliefs of the Wisconsin prisoner, who might also “feel pressure to forgo activities—such as visits with family or friends—to decrease his chances of enduring a cross-sex strip search.”
Judge Sykes and the others on the panel are extremely based for siding with the based Muslim and not kowtowing to radical gender theory. A foid dressing up as a male is still a foid. That shouldn't even be a controversial statement.