Photography Case another Snapshot of Intolerance
The First Amendment guarantees more than the freedom to speak. It also protects the freedom
not
to speak -- a right the U.S. Supreme Court just denied Elaine Huguenin.
For the photographer and her husband, this latest development was a
crushing one, especially as Christian business owners continue to find
themselves on the losing side of the clash between political correctness
and the marketplace.
Unfortunately, the Huguenins, who turned down a job to take pictures
of a lesbian commitment ceremony, aren't the only victims of this suit
-- so are hundreds of other wedding vendors who had hoped the Court
would finally provide some clarity in the chaos their own June marriage
ruling helped create. Instead, the justices
ignored an opportunity to reaffirm the basic principle that the government can't trample on fundamental rights of free speech and religion.