The left likes to current non secular liberty as a bigotry loophole for illiberal white Christians, so it’s value highlighting one other case that’s an ideological scrambler: Final month a federal appeals courtroom dominated {that a} male Muslim prisoner in Wisconsin can have an exemption from strip searches involving a transgender guard who’s biologically feminine.
“The ethical tenets of his religion” prohibit him “from exposing his physique to a girl who will not be his spouse,” writes Choose Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals. When the inmate objected to a 2016 strip search, the warden responded that the transgender guard “is a male and is certified to finish these duties.” Jail officers threatened self-discipline if the inmate raised extra complaints.
