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BRTD
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« on: September 15, 2021, 12:09:45 PM » |
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So wondering about this here with how Texas was able to make the law immune from most review.
Let's say a liberal state passed a law that made it illegal for religious figures to condemn homosexuality. Now obviously that law would be unconstitutional....but let's say they also made it so that it didn't have the state arresting or charging pastors for condemning homosexuality, instead it allowed people to sue anyone. So if a pastor gives a sermon saying that homosexuality is a sin and same-sex marriage is an abomination, any private individual can sue them for $10k. Now any churches opposed to this can't sue the state, because they're not the ones enforcing it, and it would create the same issue the Texas law does.
So if such a thing happened, how do you think the courts would treat it and the Supreme Court? Because it's obviously such a law would never withstand constitutional muster, but the Texas precedent would make it very difficult to block it.
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