You’ll be hard pressed to find a more damning indictment
of how little we’ve taught the past couple generations of Americans to
understand and cherish liberty than the lack of reaction to the New Mexico
Supreme Court’s ruling that Jonathan and Elaine Huguenin, proprietors of Elaine
Photography, cannot legally refuse to serve Vanessa Willock’s “commitment
ceremony” to her female partner. As I write this, over 60,000 people have
motivated themselves to petition Warner Bros. to get someone other than Ben Affleck
to play Batman, but the erosion of our basic liberties goes unnoticed.
Throwing out the federal Bill
of Rights in favor of the insidiously-named New Mexico Human Rights Act, the
court decided “that a commercial photography business that offers its services
to the public, thereby increasing its visibility to potential clients, is
subject to the antidiscrimination provisions of the NMHRA and must serve
same-sex couples on the same basis that it serves opposite-sex couples,” and
even more preposterously, that compulsory assistance in celebrating a gay union
didn’t violate the First Amendment’s guarantees of free speech and religious
exercise because it didn’t also prevent them from “post[ing] a disclaimer on
their website or in their studio advertising that they oppose same-sex marriage
but that they comply with applicable antidiscrimination laws.”……..To Read More……
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