Supreme Court Supports Democrat Efforts To Make Christians Second-Class Citizens

All four gospels record that the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus cast lots for his clothing. This was not the last time government agents were more interested in gambling than God. The latest instance is in Nevada, where the state government has granted casinos special privileges denied to churches. Casinos are allowed to operate at half-capacity, while churches are restricted to a hard cap of 50 people, no matter their capacity.

When this double standard was challenged in court, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts joined the leftists in allowing it, at least for the time being. Roberts presumably based this holding on his previously stated reluctance to involve the court in managing the public health response to the Chinese coronavirus, which has killed more than 150,000 Americans.

As the dissenting justices pointed out, however, no one was asking the Supreme Court to dictate public health measures, nor to exempt churches from them. Nevada could still have crafted public health measures as it saw fit, provided it did not favor slot machines over the sacraments.

“In Nevada, it seems, it is better to be in entertainment than religion,” Justice Neil Gorsuch noted in his brief but fiery 165-word dissent. “[T]he 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.”