In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage, the question is: who deserves to be coerced by the government to embrace the Court’s new definition of marriage, or penalized for declining to do so? The answer: No one. The government is not justified in coercing or penalizing anyone or any institution that believes and acts on the belief that marriage is a union of husband and wife.
Some people, however, think policy should only protect religious non-profits. They evidently believe that religious people in the marketplace don’t deserve protections, and that non-religious people and secular institutions who believe the truth about marriage as the union of husband and wife somehow aren’t deserving of protections.
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