This is the core of the argument that Republicans want to drive to the Supreme Court, because they know that if the case makes it to the Supreme docket, the right-wing cabal controlling the court will likely side with them.

That cabal is made up entirely of right-wing Catholics (except Gorsuch, raised Catholic but now Episcopalian), many affiliated with the secretive theocratic Catholic cult Opus Dei.

This cabal has shown great sympathy with the argument that "Christians" are being "oppressed" when minority groups receive rights that "Christians" do not want to accept.

Though many of us want to forget this or haven't chosen to learn it in the first place, this all began with huge white evangelical hostility to civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s recognizing basic rights of African Americans.

White evangelical Christians, especially in the South, had long taught that "God" chose to make the races separate, with Black people consigned by God to serve white people.

When the federal government recognized the rights of people of color, there was a huge hullabaloo among white Southern evangelicals, who claimed that their religious freedom (to discriminate) was being violated, trampled on.

When the federal government began threatening to deny federal funding to church-based schools like Bob Jones University as long as the university refused to abide by civil rights laws, white churches across the South began to organize to "defend" their supposedly violated "religious freedom" to discriminate.