The judges ignore the rights of Christians to practice their faith as guaranteed by the Constitution.
There is no Constitutional protection against discrimination. There is case law but it is not Constutionally established.
Yup. It is Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion.
“The judges ignore the rights of Christians to practice their faith as guaranteed by the Constitution.”
Actually this is a state court making a decision on state law. The US Constitution does not come into play.
The relevant text of the First Amendment to the US Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; . . . “. The Amendment only protects citizens from laws passed by the federal legislature (Congress), not the state legislature or state courts. At the time of the founding the states were sovereign entities and the Founders assumed the state law would govern the everyday lives of people within a state, not federal law. If state government became tyrannical, the founders assumed the people of the state would vote a new government into power.
Now that this case has gone through the New Mexico State Supreme Court, the proper remedy is the state legislature. Those who disagree with the interpretation of the law should organize and work through the legislature to get it changed. Christians outnumber gay activists so if they organize and pressure the legislature they should be able to effect a change in the law as well as have the judge removed. This is the way the system should work.