[DoodleDawg]

In this case it is a Tenth Amendment issue. There are no federal laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination, but Oregon passed their own.

[The_Reader_David]

And it is a First Amendment case, free exercise of religion as the Founders meant it is broader than freedom of worship and belief, which is what the left want to limit it to.

So the question is, in the new land of Newspeak jurisprudence we live in, in which words mean whatever a majority vote of the SCOTUS says they mean, does "free exercise of religion" now denote the same thing as the phrase from the old Soviet Constitution "freedom of worship and anti-religious propaganda"?

'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty Justice Kennedy smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty Justice Kennedy said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty Justice Kennedy, 'which is to be master — that's all.'