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Brickbat: First Amendment? Never Heard of It

Charles Oliver | 9.28.2017 4:00 AM

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A federal judge has ruled that Carl and Angel Larsen have no First Amendment right to refuse to shoot video of gay weddings even if they have religious objections to such weddings. The couple runs a videography company in Minnesota.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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