Science Isn't Golden

I'm not commenting on whether the ruling was right or wrong, but I feel compelled to make the following comment: The separation of church and state was originally instated not to prevent the church from holding power in secular domains, but to prevent the state from dictating what the church can or cannot do or not do.

Paula, thank you for your astute comments on this troubling case. The whole issue of protecting people with disabilities from employment discrimination seems to have been lost on all nine justices in their rush to protect churches.

The supreme court made the decision according to law. The right to practice religion under the First amendment trumps such things as employment law and health and safety, whistleblowing rights etc. made under the Commerce Clause or the Necessary and Proper clause.

No-one is obliged to be a member of a church, but if you choose to be a member of a church you lose employee and contractual rights as to that church. You have to look for justice in the hereafter, not the secular world. Churches are special.

Those who feel a need for fair treatment while on earth need to think hard and long about the (lack of) wisdom of working for a church of which they are a member because there are basically no enforceable promises, express or implied.