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# US Supreme Court may be challenging LGBTQ+ parental rights
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/us-supreme-court-may-be-challenging-lgbtq-parental-rights/
- Published: 2020-11-30T09:40:12.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-30T09:40:12.000Z
- Description: On Monday November 23, Indiana attorney general Curtis Hill asked the US Supreme Court to consider stripping same-sex couples of their equal parenting rights.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Amy Coney Barrett, LGBTQ, Marriage equality, Same-sex parents, US SUpreme Court

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/curtis-hill-2.jpg)

Curtis Hill

On **Monday November 23**, **Indiana** attorney general **Curtis Hill** asked the US Supreme Court to consider stripping same-sex couples of their equal parenting rights, with nine justices holding a conference on December 11 to decide whether to challenge LGBTQ+ parents. According to [Slate](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/box-henderson-indiana-marriage-equality-supreme-court.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk), Hill claimed his stance is based on the ‘right to acknowledge biological distinction between males and females’, and the notion that same-sex couples do not always have ‘biological connections’ to their child.

He filed a petition urging the court to review a previous ruling which found that state’s refusal to list both same-sex parents on their child’s birth certificate is unconstitutional. Conflict around the rights of same-sex parents has been ongoing in Indiana since 2014, when the **Tippecanoe County Health Department** refused to let a lesbian couple have both of their names on a birth certificate for their newborn child.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/parenting-same-sex-relationship-1.jpg)

The challenge to LGBTQ+ parenting rights comes shortly after associate justice, **Samuel Alito,** attacked LGBTQ+ [marriage equality](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/us-supreme-court-justice-attacks-marriage-equality/) in a speech addressing the far-right Federalist Society group. He suggested marriage equality is at odds with the rights of non-LGBTQ+ groups, saying it is an attack on ‘freedom of speech’. Fellow justice, **Clarence Thomas**, shared this view on the grounds marriage equality ‘deducts from religious freedom’.

2020 has also seen [**Amy Coney Barrett**](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/amy-coney-barrett-confirmed-as-supreme-court-justice/) being appointed to the Supreme Court despite her controversial views on the LGBTQ+ community. She is known to have been a trustee of a group of three private schools where queer teachers or children of LGBTQ+ couples were not welcome. In addition, her Christian faith group, **People of Praise**, has been known to expel LGBTQ+ members. Many queer Americans have been left fearful for their rights, with one saying the recent chain of events pose *“a grave threat to previous Supreme Court decisions that now could be reversed \[such as\] Marriage equality, abortion and the Affordable Care Act.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/judgeamyconeybarrett-1-1.jpg)

Amy Coney Barrett