[apillar]

I wonder if this case could set a precedent for the Christian wedding cake makers and photographers being persecuted by the state for refusing to participate in gay marriage? If nothing else it should bolster their argument that you don’t lose your right to practice your religion just because you go into business...

[ExTxMarine]

If nothing else it should bolster their argument that you don’t lose your right to practice your religion just because you go into business...

Exactly. What this ruling states is that you don't have to choose between owning a business or being religious.

[GOPJ]

I wonder if this case could set a precedent for the Christian wedding cake makers and photographers being persecuted by the state for refusing to participate in gay marriage?

I suspect this one will be revisited...

[DestroyLiberalism]

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I wonder if this case could set a precedent for the Christian wedding cake makers and photographers being persecuted by the state for refusing to participate in gay marriage? If nothing else it should bolster their argument that you don’t lose your right to practice your religion just because you go into business...
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I’m wondering this very same thing... I don’t see how the Supreme Court can rule in favor of religious freedom for Hobby Lobby, but not for that of Christian small businesses. Not to mention, there is also a judicial precedence from 2000 where the Boy Scouts of America were ruled in favor of having the First Amendment right, as a private organization, to exclude people from membership. Why can’t the same right apply to private businesses that do not wish to cater its product to certain people for legitimate religious reasons?

[koanhead]

Unlikely. The decision specifically said it applied to one narrow issue (e.g. companies run by Jehovah’s Witnesses can’t decide to exclude blood transfusions).

[American Constitutionalist]

Or you can not be persecuted for your long held religious beliefs or lose my right to practice my religious beliefs because " others " oppose what you believe in, or find it as " hate speech ".
Besides ? how can it be " Hate speech " if it is a supposed protected right of a person in this country who practices their religion that was well established in this country well before this country was formed ?