SCOTUS & gay wedding cakes

[Zymologist]

I think they mean narrow in how the ruling can be applied.

I've never understood "narrow ruling" to mean that, but maybe I'm just clueless on its past usage?

Does anyone know of any past cases that have used "narrow ruling" to mean that?

[Cow Poke]

How does that explain comments like "the case, like other blockbuster cases before the high court, hinged on Justice Anthony Kennedy’s vote" then?

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

[Cow Poke]

I've never understood "narrow ruling" to mean that, but maybe I'm just clueless on its past usage?

Does anyone know of any past cases that have used "narrow ruling" to mean that?

In every case I can think of, it referred to a 5-4 decision.

[rogue06]

Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

[Cow Poke]

Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say!

[rogue06]

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say!

Mandatory video clip insertion:

[seer]

Yes, that's EGGZACKLY what we've been arguing.

Well I should have said what you guys have been arguing. I'm more of an absolutist on this.

[Catholicity]

I'm glad the court ruled this way. It was a wise decision.

[rogue06]

I'm glad the court ruled this way. It was a wise decision.

Interestingly written by the same justice who wrote the decision legalizing gay marriage in the first place

[seer]

Kennedy really did not like Commission's view on this:

On July 25, 2014, the Commission met again. This
meeting, too, was conducted in public and on the record.
On this occasion another commissioner made specific
reference to the previous meeting’s discussion but said far
more to disparage Phillips’ beliefs. The commissioner
stated:

“I would also like to reiterate what we said in the
hearing or the last meeting. Freedom of religion and
religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination
throughout history, whether it be slavery,
whether it be the holocaust, whether it be—I mean,
we—we can list hundreds of situations where freedom
of religion has been used to justify discrimination.
And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of
rhetoric that people can use to—to use their religion
to hurt others.” Tr. 11–12.

. To describe a man’s faith as “one of the most despicable
pieces of rhetoric that people can use” is to disparage his
religion in at least two distinct ways: by describing it as
despicable, and also by characterizing it as merely
rhetorical—something insubstantial and even insincere. The
commissioner even went so far as to compare Phillips’
invocation of his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses
of slavery and the Holocaust. This sentiment is inappropriate
for a Commission charged with the solemn responsibility
of fair and neutral enforcement of Colorado’s antidiscrimination
law—a law that protects discrimination on
the basis of religion as well as sexual orientation.

[mossrose]

Waiting now for the left meltdown........

[Cow Poke]

Interestingly written by the same justice who wrote the decision legalizing gay marriage in the first place

Yeah, I think he recognized Colorado's hostility to the baker's religious beliefs, and that's what he focused on.

[ke7ejx]

It's obviously early days, but a small twitch of hope occurred inside me. I hope this means the Kleins will finally have justice at long, long last.

[Cow Poke]

It's obviously early days, but a small twitch of hope occurred inside me. I hope this means the Kleins will finally have justice at long, long last.

The hope that I see is that this is a recognition that "Gay Rights" don't get a green light to steamroll "Religious Liberty", and I don't think we'd be having this discussion under Hillary Clinton as POTUS.

[ke7ejx]

The hope that I see is that this is a recognition that "Gay Rights" don't get a green light to steamroll "Religious Liberty", and I don't think we'd be having this discussion under Hillary Clinton as POTUS.

Well, no. She would have appointed another Ginsberg as SCJ.