Breaking: Supreme Court rules SSM a legal right

[Del Tachi]

While I do support the effect of the court's ruling, I am a bit uncomfortable with how sweeping it is.  Concession does have to be made in relenting that today's majority opinion has deep, serious implications for religious expression and religious freedom in this country.  Just as it took 16 years between Brown v. Board and the eventual integration of Mississippi public schools, issues surrounding the rights of LGBT Americans will stay with us for several more decades and I'm afraid that the court's opinion has provided us with a messy, muddy standard by which to approach future cases that will undoubtedly crop-up because of today's ruling.

Will religious institutions of higher learning be forced to provide married student housing to legally-married gay couples?  Will religious adoption agencies be required to assist gay couples in adopting children?  Unfortunately for some supporters of this ruling, Constitutional concerns over religious freedom are not as trivial as "baking a cake".  Similarly, today's opinion could easily be applied in the context of polygamous marriage or same-sex incestuous marriage.  Is that next?    

The Court can expect a slew of religious freedom cases over the next couple sessions.  I don't think that the Court is in the mood nor the position to say, explicitly, that a bed-and-breakfast ran by Southern Baptists has to provide accommodation for a gay couple, or that a religious institution of higher learning must provide married student housing to homosexuals.  The Court has walked itself into a very tight corner, and I think it may actually end-up making things worse-off for LGBT Americans.          

  

[Del Tachi]

 
The Court can expect a slew of religious freedom cases over the next couple sessions.  I don't think that the Court is in the mood nor the position to say, explicitly, that a bed-and-breakfast ran by Southern Baptists has to provide accommodation for a gay couple, or that a religious institution of higher learning must provide married student housing to homosexuals.  The Court has walked itself into a very tight corner, and I think it may actually end-up making things worse-off for LGBT Americans.          

  

I see what you're saying and I definitely agree with most of this, but the decision can only make them worse off if they choose to start a fight with churches/religious institutions/biz.

And all indications are some already have.  

Yes, I think that anyone would have to concede that there are LGBTs willing to pick this fight.  As uncomfortable as it is to admit, there are elements of the pro-LGBT community in the United States that see organized religion and religious expression an "enemy" to their cause.  

LGBTs have won in our courthouses, and I think there are plenty out there willing and wanting to take this battle into churches and other religious institutions.  There's some sort of masturbatory pleasure that the "ACLU-Left" gets from degrading organized religion despite the 1st Amendment.