Gorsuch Versus Roberts On Calvary Chapel
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 3 months ago
I don’t really like either one of them. But they apparently don’t like each other.
JUSTICE GORSUCH, dissenting from denial of application for injunctive relief. This is a simple case. Under the Governor’s edict, a 10- screen “multiplex” may host 500 moviegoers at any time. A casino, too, may cater to hundreds at once, with perhaps six people huddled at each craps table here and a similar number gathered around every roulette wheel there. Large numbers and close quarters are fine in such places. But churches, synagogues, and mosques are banned from admitting more than 50 worshippers—no matter how large the building, how distant the individuals, how many wear face masks, no matter the precautions at all. In Nevada, it seems, it is better to be in entertainment than religion. Maybe that is nothing new. But the First Amendment prohibits such obvious discrimination against the exercise of religion. The world we inhabit today, with a pandemic upon us, poses unusual challenges. But there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel.
It’s one thing to favor Home Depot and Lowe’s over the local hardware store. That’s bad enough. But here they’re entangling themselves into something that will haunt them.
But this isn’t about logic, or the metaphysics of “possible worlds.” The reason, Justice Gorsuch, that Roberts favored entertainment over Calvary Chapel is that he has fealty to the evil one.
So when you go into deliberations with him in the future, you can know that you’re looking into the eyes of deep seated commitment to wickedness.
On July 26, 2020 at 10:30 pm, John said:
“By their acts shall you know them.”
On July 27, 2020 at 7:10 pm, Michael (from Utah) said:
John Roberts is the 21st Century’s Earl Warren.