David French: Supreme Court deals blow to liberty

ADF Attorney David French writing at Human Events: “Underlying the court’s reasoning is a dangerous view of the enormous breadth of government power. In the court’s eyes, students who want to meet in empty classrooms (rooms their tuition and tax dollars pay for) are receiving a government benefit, not exercising a fundamental right. In the court’s eyes, these ‘benefits’ (broadly defined) can be made contingent on forcing citizens to surrender their most basic liberties. … Not only is the court’s decision to equate the defense of fundamental rights with a quest for ‘special rights’ legally suspect, it has a pernicious effect in the public square.”