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« on: September 30, 2017, 01:03:12 AM »

I think there should be an exemption for any ceremony that might be religious in nature.  You would allow a business to only provide services for ceremonies that they believed in.  So a Jewish business that specialized in only Jewish weddings would be able to bypass an anti-discrimination law...

What I think Anthony Kennedy (and he's the one that will probably write the opinion) will do is carve out a special area of only weddings, because that's what all of these cases have in common, and allow a business to cater to only some ceremonies.

This way, you can allow for anti-discrimination statutes, but at the same time provide a delicate balance because the issue of gay marriage may conflict with religious views about marriage.

This is what I hope Justice Kennedy will do.  A narrow ruling concerning religious ceremonies, instead of one sweeping ruling one way or the other.  It fits with his kind of jurisprudence.
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