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The most likely scenario is that this homosexual couple used their browser to research designers of websites. They then selected an individual who either from the front page or comments they could be sure was a Christian and could obtain a refusal from them. Then as one way to celebrate their wedding they found a left-wing lawyer to file a lawsuit. What they did not do is first select a web designer sympathetic to their marriage plans.

If the courts were interested in upholding the Constitution, it would be so easy to distinguish between one who does a creative exercise as an employee and one regards their own business as an expression of Christian faith.

On that subject here is the letter I send to about 40 papers and commentators each December.

The Bill of Rights and Gay Marriage

The Bill of Rights Day on December 15 reminds one how far this country has departed from first principles. The 2015 gay marriage ruling completes a rewrite of the First Amendment. It says and used to mean, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press….”

We are familiar with the term “speech or expression’, which seems an innocuous expansion. However, “expression” enables a nearly unbounded multi-billion-dollar pornography industry.

Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion on gay marriage states, “The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to advocate and teach the principles that are so fulfilling and central to their lives and faith”. Such language restricts religious freedom by excluding “free exercise thereof”.

This restriction prohibits exercise of religious beliefs in business and personal lives even though the Constitution makes no distinction between individuals and their organizations, and churches. The interpretation marginalizes tens of millions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim believers for whom God’s creation of heterosexual marriage means homosexual behaviors separate people from the love relationship God desires with humanity. Any subsequent scriptural reasoning applied must derive from that basic understanding.

Now we have a country where women, citing freedom of expression, can enter the adult film industry, but cannot cite freedom of religious expression to prevent being forced to direct their business creative activities to designing and baking wedding cakes for gay couples.

The Formal End to Judeo-Christian America http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2015/06/30/the-formal-end-to-judeochristian-america-n2018986/page/full

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES GAY MARRIAGE http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf

Wayne Cordeiro https://www.facebook.com/pastorwaynecordeiro/posts/10153325310351210