On no topic is it more obvious that you left-wing hyperventilators get your “news” from hyperventilating left-wing news outlets than in coverage of the SCOTUS.
Patterson involved a Seventh Day Adventist who was fired for refusing to work on Saturdays due to his religious beliefs. He alleged his employer failed to accommodate his religion. The standard for evaluating such claims is whether the proposed accommodation—here, exempting him from work on Saturdays—would impose more than a de minimus burden on his employer. If so, no accommodation is required.
The de minimus standard has been criticized since adopted in 1977. There are scores of law review articles on why it is an incorrect interpretation of Title VII. I won’t go into all the reasons, but one I find compelling is that the Americans with Disabilities Act uses the exact same language as Title VII but the standard under the ADA is much more onerous on employers. Moreover, why should we treat religious accommodation any differently from disability accommodation?
I think these are interesting questions, but the case has literally nothing to do with a “First Amendment right of businesses and government contractors to discriminate against LBTQ people on the basis of religion.” Nothing.
That’s either fear-mongering (which appears to have worked) or the dumbest commentator I’ve read in a long time.