What’s in the Texas State Constitution about free exercise? I’m sure it’s there. If it comes up again, fight it at that level.
Texans must NOT involve the federal government. The Constitution FOBIDS the feds from denying free exercise and it does NOT allow the feds to enforce free speech at the state level. Letting the feds unconstitutionally decide how to enforce free exercise at the state level opens the door for the feds to interfere with the will of the people of the state and, as with abortion and marriage which are also none of the feds business, will make matters worse.
The Constitution FOBIDS the feds from denying free exercise and it does NOT allow the feds to enforce free speech at the state level.
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14th Amendment. It allows the Feds to interfere when states overstep the bounds of the U.S. Constitution.