Posted on 06/27/2015 11:21:22 AM PDT by marshmallow
With same-sex marriage declared constitutional in all 50 states, some Supreme Court justices worry that religious freedom will face unprecedented challenges in coming years.
In his dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “Today’s decision, for example, creates serious questions about religious liberty. Many good and decent people oppose same-sex marriage as a tenet of faith, and their freedom to exercise religion is — unlike the right imagined by the majority — actually spelled out in the Constitution.”
In his decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that those who object to same-sex marriage because of religious beliefs still enjoy constitutional rights to “advocate” against it.
“The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered,” he wrote. “The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons.”
Roberts dismissed this language as essentially meaningless.
“The First Amendment guarantees, however, the freedom to ‘exercise’ religion. Ominously, that is not a word the majority uses,” he wrote.
He went on to highlight “hard questions” about religious freedom, including housing and adoption policies at religious institutions. “There is little doubt that these and similar questions will soon be before this Court. Unfortunately, people of faith can take no comfort in the treatment they receive from the majority today,” he wrote.
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What is he saying here?
This battle was on its way long before this ruling, but will now come much sooner.
Will I still have a right to an opinion on same sex marriage if I am not a church-going member of some religion?
(FR Link - ACLU: Why we can no longer support the federal ‘religious freedom’ law)
changing into a secular nation...
If a bakery could exercise the religion of its owners by turning away homosexual business, then the First Amendment would mean something.
The First Amendment means nothing. It’s gone. Butt sex has been determined to be more important.
This is why it’s important to take the White House in 2016.
What? Each county will appoint a ‘warden’ to see that certain things the SCOTUS says does or does not take place in churches? Starting to sound like what the British did to the Quakers and Puritans.
That Robert's had to write that tells you just how far it's come.
As long as that "advocacy" doesn't include refusing to bake a cake.
Roberts. What a joke.
He makes stuff up on Thursday and complains about Kennedy making stuff up on Friday.
ACLU says it does not support religious freedom
No you no longer are permitted to have an opinion about homosexual marriage if such opinion is opposed to same. You are allowed to be in favor of it. For now at least, you are permitted a limited religious objection. For now.
But in purely secular terms, the debate is over per liberals based in this court decision.
It makes no difference who takes the WH in 2016. They are all one and the same.
This BS about supporting the GOP because of the SCOTUS picks is all BS.
How sad how far we have fallen. Yes our rights to sex play in anal areas is now more important than any other rights.
Whatever happened to just the concept of tolerance? When did it become cool to be gay, and why instead of tolerance, we are actively promoting and celebrating homosexuality? We have gone far beyond mere tolerance of an alternative lifestyle.
And do what????????
Politics has failed with Ronald Reagan (God Bless Him) giving us Justice Kennedy (God Bless Him).
Its time for something deeper than a false god faith in the political system and its pretenders.......
And I don’t advocate violence either, but Martin Luther King couldn’t contain the violence that happened in this country, even though he did not support it.
Its time for Godly Living and Godly Resistance.
I am supporting Ted Cruz for President, but he does not take God’s place and you can rest assured if the GOP comes up with someone else, I feel no obligation to vote for someone who will move us in the same direction as Hillary because the corporate crony elites want it that way.
He’s saying convert to Islam now before the rush ... only Islam will survive the coming anti-Christian, anti-Jewish rulings. Even atheism will fall.
Yesterday George Takai said “Religion is next.”
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