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| TUESDAY, JUNE 5 |
| RELIGIOUS FREEDOM The Supreme Court ruled in favor of baker Jack Phillips, who the Court said was treated to “government hostility” by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. “Government hostility toward people of faith has no place in our society, yet the state of Colorado was openly antagonistic toward Jack’s religious beliefs about marriage. The court was right to condemn that,” said Kristen Waggoner, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the baker. READ |
| FREEDOM & COMMERCE “Business owners and others have no obligation under the Constitution, nor can one be imposed by statute, to confine their religion to the private domain. On the contrary, they have the constitutional right to proclaim and act on their religious beliefs in the public domain, including in the domain of commerce,” writes Robert George. READ |
| QUESTIONS UNANSWERED Despite the ruling in favor of baker Jack Phillips, the debate over whether businesses can deny services to customers because of religious objections remains unresolved by this decision. “It’s a ticket for this ride only,” said Dale Carperter, professor at Southern Methodist University Law. He said the court “avoided what everybody thought was the major showdown.” READ |
| INTER-COMMUNION Pope Francis rejects a proposal by German bishops to offer Communion to Protestants who are married to a Catholic. READ |
| STARBUCKS 2020 Howard Schultz steps down as CEO of the coffee chain Starbucks fueling speculation that he will mount a presidential run in 2020. READ |
| SENATE 2018 Pro-abortion Sen. Jon Tester gets glowing praise from New York Times reporter Nicholas Fandos who traveled to Montana to follow along with the senator as he was working on his “25-year-old grain auger.” READ |
| SOCIETY Telephone culture is disappearing. No one answers their phone anymore. And there are 3.4 billion reasons why. READ |
| NEW SHRINE London has a new shrine of the Blessed Sacrament. (Worth clicking just to see some of the beautiful photos.) READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Boniface was an English Benedictine monk who made it his life’s mission to convert the Germanic tribes to Christianity. He found it was no easy task and ended up giving his life for the cause. Boniface was martyred on June 5, 754. READ |
| DAILY MASS READINGS “In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.” (Ps 90:1) READ |
| SPORTS & PATRIOTISM President Trump rescinds his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles football team to the White House because he said the team doesn’t agree with his belief that NFL players should “proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.” It might be peculiar for a President to risk offending people from a state he won so narrowly. But maybe it makes sense for him politically, too. The first map below shows the counties that Trump won in red, with counties that went for Hillary in blue. The bottom map shows the counties where fans cheer for the Pittsburgh Steelers in gold, and the counties that a majority of fans cheer for the Eagles in green.) READ |