“All eyes on Justice Kennedy” – CNNPolitics

Supreme Court hears same-sex marriage cake case – CNNPolitics

As the Supreme Court wrestled with a clash between religious freedom and LGBT rights on Tuesday, all eyes were on Justice Anthony Kennedy, who might have to reconcile two strands of his jurisprudence. …

But when the subject turned to free exercise of religion, Kennedy was infuriated by a part of the record where one of the commissioners on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, who ruled against Phillips, noted that using freedom of religion to justify discrimination is a “despicable piece of rhetoric.”

Kennedy wondered if that showed a “hostility to religion.” more…