Remember all the hand wringing from the Left when Bush announced Marriage Protection Week on the anniversary of Matthew Sheppard's death. That wasn't just a coincidence, it was the Republican cabal's way of saying Fuck You to Sheppard's memory. Remember that?

So where's the outrage that the same day The Passion is released, the Supreme Court hands down a ruling allowing states to affirmatively discriminate against religion. I mean, thats some strange coincidence, right?

If the state of Washington decided to give special benefits for students of devotional theology (a $3000 scholarship only to people who are studying materials that are "devotional in nature or designed to induce religious faith"), that would be a sure violation of the Establishment Clause, because it would be discrimination in favor of religion. But when the state does the exact opposite, by specially excluding such students from a generally applicable program -- when it discriminates against religion -- that's now (after Locke v. Davey) completely constitutional, even though the Establishment Clause itself has long been described as barring disapproval as well as endorsement of religion, inhibition as well as promotion of religion, hostility towards as well as favoritism towards religion.

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