The 9-0 decision, which is unheard of in this area of jurisprudence, prohibits courts from hearing cases against religious organizations that are founded on statutory discrimination claims - in this case the ADA. Thus, the EEOC and all the other Federal agencies have to keep their mitts off churches and other religious organizations, no doubt to Attorney General Eric Holder's great consternation. Why do I say that?
Richard Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame, comments:
"... the Supreme Court affirmed what the overwhelming majority of lower federal courts and state courts in the United States have already ruled, and rejected the well-outside-the-mainstream view advanced by the Obama administration’s lawyers. This last point is worth emphasizing: The administration’s lawyers had pressed an extreme view — one that no other court, and few scholars and experts, had embraced — and they convinced no one."
Thank God! But this again points out the importance of the 2012 Presidential election. Any administration that would articulate the position it did in this case does not understand the Constitution at all and is a danger to the country and its people.
www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/287858/win-religious-freedom-richard-garnett
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