"The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is angrily condemning a memo released today by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that it describes as "an all-out assault on LGBTQ people" creating "a sweeping 'license to discriminate'" in furtherance of President Donald Trump's "cynical and hateful agenda."...They should be comforted, then, by the revelation that virtually everything in the document is merely a restating of existing law and Supreme Court precedent.
...The principle that Americans don't forfeit their rights when they enter into the public square was recently upheld in 2014's Hobby Lobby ruling, while the principle that government can't dictate a church's hiring practices (at least when it comes to "ministerial" positions) was unanimously reaffirmed in 2012's Hosanna-Tabor..."
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