Colorado Counseling Case: Supreme Court Sides with the First Amendment

When you can’t win the debate with words, you end the discussion with force.

Colorado officials have modeled this principle for the past 15 years. Don’t like religious views on marriage? Let’s try to drive believers like cake designer Jack Phillips and web designer Lorie Smith out of business. Think it’s backward to affirm men can’t be women? Let’s use criminal penalties to force businesses, including XX-XY Athletics, to say men are women. Deny that women deserve their own private spaces? Let’s force Christian summer camps to put boys into girls’ cabins and showers. Disagree that women can change their minds about terminating their pregnancy? Let’s ban nurses from helping women access abortion-reversal drugs.

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Jonathan Scruggs

Jonathan Scruggs is senior counsel and vice president of Litigation Strategy with Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal).

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When you can’t win the debate with words, you end the discussion with force.

Colorado officials have modeled this principle for the past 15 years. Don’t like religious views on marriage? Let’s try to drive believers like cake designer Jack Phillips and web designer Lorie Smith out of business. Think it’s backward to affirm men can’t be women? Let’s use criminal penalties to force businesses, including XX-XY Athletics, to say men are women. Deny that women deserve their own private spaces? Let’s force Christian summer camps to put boys into girls’ cabins and showers. Disagree that women can change their minds about terminating their pregnancy? Let’s ban nurses from helping women access abortion-reversal drugs.