This is the fault of the SCOTUS itself.
After they made their decision in favor of the Christian Baker, I thought it was a Pyrrhic Victory as they only addressed an issue related to THAT PARTICULAR CASE but did not make it a BASIC First Amendment related decision applicable to all religious businessmen.
As someone posted elsewhere, Other than in the concurrence by Gorsuch and Alito, the Court focused on the Commission’s overt anti-religious bias during the state hearing, not on the core issue of whether the baker had the first amendment right to refuse service.
If the SCOTUS did that, it would have been applicable to ALL religious businesses -— Bakers, Florist, Photographers, Lodge Owners, etc.
This should already be a warning to every Christian businessman out there. The strategy of the alt-lifestyle leftists is to sue you into bankruptcy, even if they can’t win, if they can’t get their way.
Justice Kennedy is also at fault here. This could have been a broader ruling as I stated above, however, Kennedy was unwilling to join it. So, Chief Justice Roberts could only get a majority by limiting the decision to the issue of bias at the hearing.
We really need justices like Scalia and Thomas who could have settle this issue once and for all, not someone like Kennedy. Otherwise, we will again see cases like these occurring everywhere in this country.
The LEFT made a mistake by going after the same baker.
Let's recognize the source of the infection.
You are absolutely right. There are some good people on the Supreme Court but as a whole they have been sniveling cowards, afraid to set precedent. They take cases and rule very narrowly, essentially wasting everybody's time.
Now that we are getting more conservatives on the court, that will probably change. But we are still stuck with John Roberts who was born without a spine.
After they made their decision in favor of the Christian Baker, I thought it was a Pyrrhic Victory as they only addressed an issue related to THAT PARTICULAR CASE but did not make it a BASIC First Amendment related decision applicable to all religious businessmen.
As someone posted elsewhere, Other than in the concurrence by Gorsuch and Alito, the Court focused on the Commission’s overt anti-religious bias during the state hearing, not on the core issue of whether the baker had the first amendment right to refuse service.
If the SCOTUS did that, it would have been applicable to ALL religious businesses -— Bakers, Florist, Photographers, Lodge Owners, etc . . .
Justice Kennedy is also at fault here. This could have been a broader ruling as I stated above, however, Kennedy was unwilling to join it. So, Chief Justice Roberts could only get a majority by limiting the decision to the issue of bias at the hearing.
But Kennedy is retired now . . .I fail to see what good can come of this, other than liberal spite, for the increasingly poorly named Colorado Civil Rights Commission. What can get a broader decision at the SCOTUS any faster than them going after him like this? - jyo19
Exactly. If Kavanaugh is an improvement on Kennedy . . .
By design. SCOTUS has no intention of ruling Constitutionally. They are no refuge for liberty.