My Latest for The Washington Post

Reflections on Monday's Supreme Court Decision and Social Conservatives

Dear friends,

As promised, I wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post reacting to Monday’s SCOTUS decision on LGBT rights.

It begins:

For more than a decade, advocacy groups on the religious right have told socially conservative Americans that defending religious freedom meant denying LGBTQ rights. Secularists controlled the culture, they warned, and if an inch was conceded, progressives would take a mile. Religious leaders who wondered whether they should support civil unions or basic LGBTQ rights were told that to do so would be to give in to a godless society. Compromise would undermine the strategy of holding firm, stacking the courts and supporting Republican politicians who had pledged to safeguard religious freedom — politicians like Donald Trump.

But despite years of hand-wringing, posturing, stall tactics and fundraising, Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch — nominated by President Trump and the pride of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — was the one to write Monday’s opinion protecting LGBTQ workers under federal law.

You can read the rest of the op-ed here.

Thanks for reading, as always.

Michael