The city passed a Human Rights Ordinance in 2017 that added sexual orientation and gender identity to the civil rights law.

“Thus, they affirm that men and women are different and cannot use pronouns or titles that don’t align with a customer’s sex,” the statement continued. “DeTrude also wants to explain this policy and her Catholic beliefs about gender and sexuality in her store and on the store’s website. However, doing so is illegal under Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance, which forbids communications that could lead someone to feel ‘unwelcome’ based on various protected traits. The law threatens Queen of Angels with unlimited fines and damages if it doesn’t comply.”

An ordinance is an order enacted as local law. An ordinance is always inferior to a Constitutional right.

The Queen of Angels Catholic Bookstore has a very good case to defeat this ordinance.