In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage, the question is: who deserves to be coerced by the government to embrace the Court’s new definition of marriage, or penalized for declining to do so? The answer: No one. The government is not justified in coercing or penalizing anyone or any institution that believes and acts on the belief that marriage is a union of husband and wife.

Some people, however, think policy should only protect religious non-profits. They evidently believe that religious people in the marketplace don’t deserve protections, and that non-religious people and secular institutions who believe the truth about marriage as the union of husband and wife somehow aren’t deserving of protections.

We reject this.

Read the article “On Marriage, Protect Freedom for All” on firstthings.com.