Tag: religious discrimination
The Supreme Court boots antigay religious discrimination case back to lower court
Today the Supreme Court punted on a case that could’ve decided whether the U.S. Constitution’s “religious freedom” clause gives Christian business owners have the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people – even when state law explicitly forbids it.
The case was Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, which involves an Oregon bakery, Sweetcakes by Melissa, whose operators, Melissa and Aaron Klein, were fined $135,000 by the state for refusing to serve Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, a same-sex couple...
