Dwain Northey (Gen X)

In simple terms, courts use “standing” to ask, “Does this party have a ‘dog in this fight? ‘” Standing limits participation in lawsuits and asks whether the person(s) bringing a lawsuit, or defending one, has enough cause to “stand” before the court and advocate, since not anyone can go to court for any reason.

I am not a lawyer, but I do understand this simple concept… If a person has had no harm done to them by another person, they cannot arbitrarily file legal action in court. It seems that the act of Standing is no longer a criteria for legal action.

Last year Texas passed a law that any person could claim that another person had an abortion and if proven to be true the person making the accusation could collect a $10,000 bounty. The party making the allegation of termination of a pregnancy did not have to, in any way, be affected by accused termination. How in any world can one party charge or accuse another of a crime if they, themselves, do not have STANDING. But the law is still in act in Texas.

The Supreme Court just made a ruling on a Colorado case brought by a web designer, well someone that hopes to one day be a web designer, stating that their 1^st amendment rights would be violated if they were asked to design a wedding site for a same sex couple. The High Court ruled in their favor stating that they did have the right to discriminate based on their religious beliefs.

The crazy thing about this case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court has NO STANDING… This web designer that has, as of yet, not designed any web pages and was never solicited to design a site for a same sex couple. In fact, the person that they named as asking for a site to be made turns out to be in a heterosexual marriage for the past 15 years. What is even more ridiculous is that the Colorado State Attorney knew that the party named in the complaint hadn’t requested any such web site be designed.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a hypothetical case that had and has no standing, and their ruling now makes it lawful to discriminate.

As far as Standing I would love for a reputable attorney find the party that is named in the case and represent them against the web designer and sue them for a million dollars. The party named has standing his phone number was listed in the initial law suite and he and his family did receive harassing calls… he and his spouse absolutely have a case and I would love to see any judge argue that they don’t. Just a short rant to day but this case really annoys me on a lot of levels…