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(CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that a Christian-owned traditional women-only Korean spa in Washington can’t sue the state on First Amendment grounds for forcing it to open its doors to transgender women.

“We first conclude that the spa’s religious expression is only incidentally burdened,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown, a Bill Clinton appointee, in the opinion.
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The ruling spurred an especially bitter dissent from the Korean-born Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee, a Donald Trump appointee.

“The spa has maintained its entry policy for over twenty years without complaint,” Lee wrote in his dissent. “But when one person complained about the policy in early 2020, the government pounced.” He added that the regulatory agency that ordered the spa to include transgender women had “wielded its power to advance its own political agenda.”

Lee also suggested that the law had at least the effect of discriminating against Asian Americans — a group that, in the state, has “historically lacked political clout.”
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In his dissent, Circuit Judge Lee offered a full-throated defense of Korean spas as an institution.

“Korean spas are not like spas at the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton with their soothing ambient music and lavender aroma in private lounges,” he wrote. “Steeped in centuries-old tradition, Korean spas require their patrons to be fully naked, as they sit in communal saunas and undergo deep-tissue scrubbing of their entire bodies in an open area filled with other unclothed patrons.”

He added: “Now, under edict from the state, women — and even girls as young as 13 years old — must be nude alongside patrons with exposed male genitalia as they receive treatment. And female spa employees must provide full-body massages to naked pre-operative transgender women with intact male sexual organs.”

... After losing at the 9th Circuit, the spa appealed and asked for a rehearing of the matter before the entire court. Yesterday that request was denied and Judge VanDyke wrote a dissent which is shocking and alarming some of his colleagues. In fact I'm going to have to bleep this out a bit.

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This is a case about swinging d****. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa—a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don't want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don't want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging d**** shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion. You're not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing. Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls.

In response, 27 of the court's 51 judges wrote a rebuke to Judge VanDyke:

Notice that for all his stupid lecturing never once did he say check your source to make sure it is accurate and truthful.

David Freddoso exposed Obama’s nastiness years ago in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which he pointed out that the community organizer “won his first election in 1996 by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot on technicalities.”

One of the Obama “tactics for disqualifying them was to challenge signatures on his opponents’ petitions by married women who signed using the wrong name,” he posted Sunday, which happened to be International Women’s Day.

“Beginning on Jan. 2, 1996,” Freddoso writes in his 2008 Journal piece, Obama’s “campaigners began challenging thousands” of qualifying petition signatures that “the other candidates in the race had submitted in order to appear on the ballot. Thus would Mr. Obama win his state Senate seat, months before a single vote was cast.”

The petition challengers reported to Obama “nightly on their progress as they disqualified his opponents’ signatures on various technical grounds — all legitimate from the perspective of law.”

“In the end,” says Freddoso, “Obama disqualified all four opponents — including the incumbent state senator, Alice Palmer, and three minor candidates.”