In a landmark 7-2 ruling (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor), the Supreme Court has thrown out a finding that a Colorado baker illegally discriminated when he refused to make a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding.
As The Hill reports, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the decision, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution when it forced Jack Phillips to make a cake for a same-sex wedding he morally opposed under the state’s public accommodations law.
“The laws and the Constitution can, and in some instances must, protect gay persons and gay couples in the exercise of their civil rights, but religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are protected views in some instances protected forms of expression,” the court said.
Justice Anthony Kennedy also pointed to one commissioner’s comments that religion had been used to justify slavery and the Holocaust and that invoking religion to hurt others is “despicable.”
Additionally, in his majority opinion, Kennedly wrote that the issue “must await further elaboration.”
Appeals in similar cases are pending, including one at the Supreme Court from a florist who didn’t want to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.
Is this the start of the end of the politically-correct, social-justice-warrior era? We highly doubt it. As a reminder, in April, a judge ruled that a bar was well within its right to kick out Trump supporters, and of course, the Oakland coffee shop that has refiused to allow policemen in uniform to enter.
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