Harvard University Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz appeared on Newsmax and criticized the Supreme Court’s decision Friday in favor of a web designer who refused to create websites for same-sex marriages due to her religious beliefs.
"It's a close case, but it's an extremely dangerous decision," Dershowitz said on "National Report."
He explained: "Let's just change the facts a little bit. Let's assume that a religious Catholic has a business and won't serve anybody who's divorced. Would the court have come to the same decision? Or what if you have a fundamentalist who says, Look, what about the part of the Bible that talks about the curse against Black people? We’re not going to integrate with Black people because we have a religious belief."
Dershowitz added: "The devil can cite scripture, and in the gay rights case … there will be substantial support by the public, by a lot of people who are bigoted against gay and lesbian people. But the same rule would apply to somebody who refused to serve divorced people."
He went on to say: "There are so many things in life that people believe are prohibited or required by the Bible. If we permit religion to become a license for law-breaking generally, we're going down a very, very slippery slope."
Dershowitz noted that "I haven't had a chance to read everything, and I hope there are constraints in the decision because otherwise it can be a very, very, very dangerous, slippery slope, allowing people to claim religious excuses for not integrating, for not doing a range of other activities that the law compels."
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Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.