An academic and expert on the American Constitution has questioned the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling and posed the question: “Whatever happened to religious freedom?”In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Dr Roger Pilon, a professor of government who teaches at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., outlined the injustice of forcing “private individuals and organizations into associations they find offensive”.
His warning echoes that of the four dissenting judges, who branded their colleagues’ ruling as self-conceited and arrogant.
Dr Pilon wrote that in the ruling last month, Justice Anthony Kennedy “merely mentioned in passing that religious adherents would continue to be free to ‘advocate’ and ‘teach’ their beliefs. Conspicuously absent, as dissenting justices noted, was any mention of the ‘exercise’ of those beliefs”. ...