respectful consideration.
alicia acuna live with us from
denver.
>> both sides are claiming some
elements of victory here.
the way the opinion is written,
it deals with one issue that
happened in one instance with
one baker.
when charlie craig and david
mullens were denied the cake,
they filed the plate with the
colorado civil rights commission
and they ruled in they favor.
it was the way that the baker
was treated that turned the
case.
anthony kennedy writing some of
the commissioners at the
commission's formal public
hearings endorsed the view that
religious beliefs cannot
legitimately be carried into the
public sphere.
they characterized it as
rhetorical and compared the
invocation of his religious
beliefs to slavery and the
holocaust.
>> we're excited that the
supreme court has decided to
protect the religious freedoms
for everybody.
justice kennedy's opinion can be
summed up as tolerance is a