On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 12:43:05 PM UTC-4, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:30:37 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote:

On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 11:11:58 AM UTC-4, John H wrote:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b02143b7ce938a

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a narrow victory to a Christian baker from Colorado who
refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

The justices, in a 7-2 decision, faulted the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling of the
claims brought against Jack Phillips, saying it had showed a hostility to religion. In doing so, the
commission violated his religious rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution."

I wonder how 'narrow victory' is defined? Seems like a 7-2 decision is far from 'narrow'.

In the Supreme Court, 7-2 is a slam dunk.

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They are talking about "narrow" in a legal sense, meaning that their
judgement does not necessarily apply to other similar cases that have
different circumstances.

“The outcome of cases like this in other circumstances must await
further elaboration in thecourts, all in the context of recognizing
that these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue
disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay
persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open
market,� Kennedy said.

In other words, it all depends.

Yeah, I read somewhere else that it was a narrowly defined decision that can not be used in a more broad sense in other cases. It was the wording this article used in its first sentence, "narrow victory", which falsely conveys that the victory itself was narrow, not the decision and its implications. They don't even define or use the word "narrow" again in the article. It's either accidental or intentionally misleading journalism, IMO.