The Liberty Daily 
(WND)—It’s being called a “perversion of public accommodation laws” and now it’s pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lawyers with two public interest legal teams have asked the high court to step in and correct a lower court’s decision that ordered a Christian-owned, family-run Korean spa that administers traditional treatments, in the nude, to women and girls as young as 13 to open its doors to men.
A man who says he’s a woman wants to participate.
“It is an abuse and perversion of the public accommodation laws to give biological males access to the intimate spaces of unconsenting females in a state of full or partial undress. No woman or girl should have to give up her right to bodily privacy and safety to avoid offending a man. That’s wrong, and it puts women and girls in harm’s way,” said Kevin Snider of Pacific Justice Insttitue.
And John Bursch, of the ADF, added, “Based on a single complaint by a male who may never even have visited the spa, Washington state decided its views on gender identity must override a centuries-old cultural practice and deep religious conviction, turning its enforcement power against a Korean family’s small business.”
He said the Washington state agency that ordered the violation of females’ privacy rights actively is compromising not only religious beliefs but the safety of women and girls.
The legal teams, in an announcement, explained, the traditional treatments:
Sun Lee and his family own Olympus Spa, which offers traditional jjimjilbang treatments rooted in centuries of Korean culture: communal steam rooms, warm soaking pools, and the ancient practice of seshin, a full-body scrub performed by employees called ddemiri in an open communal space where all patrons are fully nude. Because nudity is not incidental but central to the services the spa provides, and because the spa’s owners hold sincere Christian convictions that men and women should not be unclothed together outside of marriage, Olympus Spa has always admitted only female patrons and hires only female employees.
Then a man demanded to join, and when denied permission, complained to the Washington state Human Rights Commission, demanding access to facilities where girls as young as 13 were fully nude.
Officials in Washington state claimed the spa was violating their “public accommodation” laws.
“A family of Christian immigrants—who fled Korea hoping for greater religious freedom—now stand to lose their livelihood or the ability to practice their faith because the State of Washington insists on dictating that males who identify as women be admitted into a female-only nude spa,” the petition filed with the Supreme Court in Olympus Spa v. Armstrong explains.
Commentator John Murawski at Real Clear Wire pointed out that the case suddenly gained attention when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the spa, and a dissent described the fight as “a case about swinging dicks.”
He said the laws should protect women against voyeurism and indecent exposure.
Also expressing concern at the 9th Circuit was Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who said, “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.”
WorldNetDaily documented the blunt dissent.
He said, “You may think that swinging d*cks 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.”
Not the Bee explained the judge is “CORRECT.”
