Masterpiece highlights the fighter in Justice Gorsuch

By Kristi Burton Brown

Published June 6, 2018 4:00am ET

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Masterpiece highlights the fighter in Justice Gorsuch — Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch joins other justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for an official group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Although the Supreme Court’s decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is indeed a victory for religious rights, it is a shallow one.

In its 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court merely upheld the baseline of any free society: Government may not blatantly discriminate against a religious person, act in a hostile manner towards him, or deem his views offensive to the government.

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