We Hear You: Supreme Court Abandons Christian Florist
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Ken McIntyre, a 30-year veteran of national and local newspapers, serves as senior editor at The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation s Marilyn and Fred Guardabassi Fellow in Media and Public Policy Studies. Send an email to Ken.
Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s audience appears flabbergasted that the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a florist in Washington state who declined to do floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding. Here’s a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected] Ken McIntyre
Dear Daily Signal: In his story “Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal of Christian Florist in Same-Sex Wedding Case,” Fred Lucas reports that an ACLU lawyer said of florist Barronelle Stutzman’s case, “No one should walk into a store and have to wonder whether they will be turned away because of who they are.”
Can Barronelle Stutzman, a Christian, run her flower shop in keeping with her faith?
The Supreme Court â with determinative votes cast by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh â has effectively decided she cannot.
âMy faith is a part of every aspect of my life,â Stutzman said in a sworn statement presented seven years ago in a Washington state court. âI believe that God requires me to apply my faith in all that I do whether that is in my personal life or my business.â
âIn the mid-1970s, I began learning the art of floral design and creation at my motherâs floral shop in Connell,â she said. âIn 1989, my mom was diagnosed with Alzheimerâs. So I purchased the business from my mom in 1996 and became the sole owner of Arleneâs Flowers, where I continue to design floral arrangements.â
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A reasonable person living in the United States over the past seventeen years might have been occasionally tempted to emulate a type of cicada that lives in the regions around Washington, D.C.
This insect â known as Brood X â spends most of its 17 years sheltering underground.
When the soil grows warm enough in the spring of its final year, as described in the 1995 edition of the Annual Review of Entomology and a 2004 story in the Daily Telegraph of London, a Brood X cicada crawls to the surface, mounts a tree, mates, leaves its eggs in the limbs of that tree, and then falls to the ground dead.