politics
Female-only spa asks Supreme Court to let them ban 'swinging d***s'
The Supreme Court is being urged to hear a religious liberty case about a Korean spa in Washington state that wishes to keep its facility female only, in a dispute that made headlines over a judge’s crude description of what the spa owners wanted to avoid women seeing at their establishment.
TL;DR
- The Supreme Court is urged to hear a religious liberty case about a female-only Korean spa in Washington state.
- Olympus Spa cites religious beliefs that men and women should not be unclothed together outside of marriage.
- The spa has exclusively admitted and hired women for over 20 years, citing privacy and religious convictions.
- Washington state officials threatened prosecution for refusing to admit men, prompting a lawsuit.
- The lawsuit alleges a violation of the spa owners' First Amendment religious rights.