Can you show me the MA law that forces men and women of conscience to violate their closely-held beliefs if they want to help the weakest and neediest among us?
Or is this just more judicial tyranny, enforced by Mitt Romney's executive branch?
"I believe, though don't quote me on this, that the Catholic Charities, which had previously consented to place children in same-sex homes, changed that policy, at which point lawsuit was brought against them for violation of Massachusett's anti-discrimination laws. At which point I assume the judiciary ruled that they had indeed violated these laws.
Can you show me the MA law that forces men and women of conscience to violate their closely-held beliefs if they want to help the weakest and neediest among us?
Or is this just more judicial tyranny, enforced by Mitt Romney's executive branch?"
No, no I can't. You're missing the point and you continually miss the point. I suspect it's deliberate. You're continually putting forth arguments that go something like this "what an awful, absurd usurpation of judicial power". I agree. Both of these are awful, absurd usurpations. But then you're somehow, by some rhetorical trick as yet unknown, extending that to mean that the decision is void. You're using the exact same logical inanities that liberals continually use to justify there lovely "living constitutionalism". You don't like a result, therefore it's not allowed. Do you accept judicial review? Do you accept the principle that courts can overturn "unconstitutional laws"? Do you accept the principle that the Supreme can interpret the meaning of statutes? Because, if so it seems to me that your overall boils down to: "the Court's must overturn unconstitutional laws, and interpret statutes, but only when they're laws I believe are unconstitutional, and only when they're statutes that advance me cause". Again, this is precisely the logic that dovetails into living constitutionalism. Either the Courts have the power to interpet legislation, or they do not. They cannot, by any reasonable formulation, only interpret legislation that aid your cause.