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SCOTUSblogâ€Verified account @SCOTUSblog6m6 minutes agoIn Masterpiece Cakeshop case, Supreme Court holds that Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated baker's rights under the free exercise clause
NBC Newsâ€Verified account @NBCNews26s27 seconds agoBREAKING: US Supreme Court rules narrowly for Colorado baker who cited religious reasons for denying to make cake for same-sex wedding.
The justices, in a 7-2 decision, faulted the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling of the claims brought against Jack Phillips, saying it had showed a hostility to religion.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-baker/supreme-court-hands-narrow-win-to-baker-over-gay-couple-dispute-idUSKCN1J01WU
7-2 is pretty definitive...no wiggle room for anyone to say it was a "partisian" decision.ETA: @thackney Just noticed the Reuters link calls a 7-2 decision "narrow" smh
That's how it is being reported even Fox News repeated it..
That's crazy. I could understand saying it was "narrow" if it was 5-4 or even 6-3. But 7-2? Short of a 9-0 ruling that's pretty definitive.
I wonder if they mean "narrow in scope".
The Commission’s hostility was inconsistent with theFirst Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied ina manner that is neutral toward religion. Phillips wasentitled to a neutral decisionmaker who would give fulland fair consideration to his religious objection as hesought to assert it in all of the circumstances in which thiscase was presented, considered, and decided. In this casethe adjudication concerned a context that may well bedifferent going forward in the respects noted above. Howeverlater cases raising these or similar concerns areresolved in the future, for these reasons the rulings of theCommission and of the state court that enforced theCommission’s order must be invalidated.The outcome of cases like this in other circumstancesmust await further elaboration in the courts, all in thecontext of recognizing that these disputes must be resolvedwith tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincerereligious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons toindignities when they seek goods and services in an openmarket.