These core rights and freedoms are placed at risk when anyone is exempted from the constitutional requirement to treat their fellow Americans as equal citizens under the law...
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Monday, October 9, 2023
Supreme Court is increasingly putting Christians' First Amendment rights ahead of others' dignity and rights to equal protection
The success of this strategic shift, from seeking to overturn objectionable policies to seeking exemptions from them, threatens to upset the delicate balance among the cluster of core-related rights and freedoms – religion, speech, press and assembly –protected by the First Amendment.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
The Supreme Court fooled us in 303 Creative — just look at the facts | The Hill
…Justice Elena Kagan asked if the business would serve a same-sex couple requesting a website identical to the one it sold their opposite-sex friends. The Alliance Defending Freedom's lawyer representing the business answered with a clear no, stating that "the announcement of the wedding itself is a concept that [the designer] believes to be false."
This exchange should have decided the case. It shows the business resists not expressing particular content, like writing "love is love," but creating its ordinary product and selling it to certain clients merely due to their identity. Such identity-based resistance, however, deprives people of the right to use their dollars with dignity like everyone else and should not be allowed in the marketplace...
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