In an area close to my heart--my wife and I both graduated from Michigan State in East Lansing, and my wife grew up in Charlotte--a federal district court has ruled that the city of East Lansing was wrong to exclude an orchard near Charlotte from the city farmers' market, and this after an apparent series of court losses on the way there.
It strikes me here that while the city council members have the 1st Amendment right to ignore the 1st Amendment, as public servants, they're pledged to honor it, and the fact that they've wasted many thousands of dollars of public funds on a series of lawsuits that any competent lawyer would tell them was futile ought to lead to their resignation and a commitment to repay those legal fees as they can.
Of course, any city that drags a farmer and his family through seven years of lawsuits to infringe on their religious rights probably doesn't have much honor to begin with, but one can always dream.
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