Thank God. This Supreme Court ruling is a travesty. I predict liberals and conservatives alike will come to hate this ruling.
This is one of those rare issues Freepers and DUer's agree on.
You are correct that liberals and conservatives will come to both hate this. I was speaking to my bleeding heart lib friend last night and he was vehemently blasting the SCOTUS ruling. Funny thing our agreements were basically the same (except he said this was as bad as the Patriot Act).
Glad the Texas Legislature is working on this as I was thinking of buying property down on the Texas coast but won't if the cities are allowed to run roughshod over the property owners (ala Freeport).
If nothing else, proposed legislation or constitutional amendments like these will force these politicians to take a stand on one side or the other of this ruling.
I suspect that a lot of the "outrage" coming from the left is a sham. Virtually all of the major newspapers have heralded this SC decision - that alone should be enough to set the alarm bells ringing. Many of the liberal elites see all kinds of potential for social engineering in this ruling, but they're clever enough to lie low for now, until the media can distract the public with the latest "earth shattering news" about Tom and Katie's love affair.
They figure that once the furor dies down, some of their local hacks can condemn a few churches and "bad" businesses like gun shops and tobacco stores and hand the properties over to their developer pals so they can build gay bath houses or "cultural awareness centers" or "meditation circles", while at the same time putting in place restrictions that make it impossible to take property from anyone belonging to an approved "victim group." This will bring the rank-and-file leftists firmly on board, and that will set the vision that the five SC justices who gave us this abomination had in place.
Best to get all the enemies of private property rights out in the open right now, before they vanish into the background to work their agendas out of view.