Judicial Wisdom on the Law of God

I'm sorry, judge, but Mithras disagrees with you.

This one’s a little out of turn. I tend to like to post things in connection with the date they appeared in the paper, and this appeared on April 6, but it seemed so current that I figured why wait until April (when it might not be quite as pertinent).

It’s a little bit of judicial wisdom on the intersection of the civil law and people’s religious beliefs, the sort of thing we’re seeing right now. We’ve got the Latter Day Saints proposing a ban on discrimination against gay people with a loophole so large that anyone could get through it. If people can’t discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in public accommodation, hiring, or housing, except when their religion tells them they should, gay people are protected from discrimination from anyone who actually wouldn’t discriminate against gay people. Protection from those who would discriminate? Not so much.

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