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“The United States Supreme Court has spoken clearly on the constitutional principles at stake,” wrote Reeves in the ruling, citing Epperson v. Arkansas. “Under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, a state ‘may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another.’”
Reeves said the Mississippi law “grants special rights to citizens who hold one of three ‘sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions’ reflecting disapproval of lesbian, gay, transgender, and unmarried persons. That violates both the guarantee of religious neutrality and the promise of equal protection of the laws.”
A friend living near my native town of Natchez, MS, reminds me to tell everybody they just elected, and will today inaugurate as mayor, an openly gay black man.
Well done, Supreme Court.
I mean, federal judge. Whoops!
but muh xian pursek-oo-shun