This ruling is very disappointing. Saying "it could have been worse" is not a victory, because the justices had an opportunity to make a statement about religious freedom in this ruling and they chose not to. That was the point of it going to the supreme court in the first place: to set a precedent, a ruling, that business owners could act on their religious conscious without legal threat.
I hope that Philips gets good legal advice. I realize that his lawyers are motivated to spin this as a bigger win than it was, but he needs to know that he's still in legal danger if he starts baking wedding cakes again and refuses to do it for homosexual "weddings." The commission would just have to be more professional about it.
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This ruling is very disappointing. Saying "it could have been worse" is not a victory, because the justices had an opportunity to make a statement about religious freedom in this ruling and they chose not to. That was the point of it going to the supreme court in the first place: to set a precedent, a ruling, that business owners could act on their religious conscious without legal threat.
ReplyDeleteI hope that Philips gets good legal advice. I realize that his lawyers are motivated to spin this as a bigger win than it was, but he needs to know that he's still in legal danger if he starts baking wedding cakes again and refuses to do it for homosexual "weddings." The commission would just have to be more professional about it.
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