Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison just declared war on religious freedom and free speech

[mountaineer]

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison just declared war on religious freedom and free speech
 by Kaylee McGhee
 October 05, 2019 07:00 AM

When the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that Minnesota could not force wedding videographers Carl and Angel Larsen to create videos that violate their religious beliefs, the Larsens thought their three-year court battle was over. But it appears it’s just beginning.

Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, vowed to fight the court’s decision and squash discriminatory speech in all its forms. In an op-ed for the Minnesota Star Tribune this week, Ellison accused the Larsens of hiding behind their religious beliefs in an attempt to get away with LGBT discrimination.

“Business owners’ free speech and beliefs are already fully protected under the First Amendment. What they want is a license to discriminate against LGBTQ folks,” Ellison wrote. “People have the right to believe whatever they want to believe. What they don’t have is the right to deny you the same service they’re offering to everyone else. No Minnesotan should be afraid that might happen to them.”   ...

Ellison’s argument is remarkable because in it, he admits what few of these demagogues have been willing to say outright: Religious freedom has no place in a politically correct society.  ...  Rest of article at Washington Examiner

[Wingnut]

Ellison, a moslum fighting for Alphabet peoples rights.....  Right.  What a douche.

[PeteS in CA]

That op-ed will be ammunition for the Larsens, proving malice on the part of the state. They're represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, the group that represented Masterpiece Cakes all the way to victory in the USSC. That's one of several cases that earned ADF the "Hate Group" label from the SPLC. ADF keeps winning cases the SPLC thinks they should not, .