The following is an op-ed penned by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Rebecca Lucero, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The op-ed was published this week in the Star Tribune.
Minnesotans are decent people. We think everyone, no exceptions, should be able to live with the same dignity and respect we want for ourselves and our families. But that common decency is under attack in court.
Last month, the federal appeals court for the Eighth Circuit – in a divided 2-1 ruling with a strong dissent – ruled that, in at least one narrow, hypothetical case, a business in Minnesota that offers services to the general public can use the owners’ personal beliefs to discriminate against same-sex couples. Continue reading “Keith Ellison, Rebecca Lucero: We will prove LGBTQ discrimination is not free speech”