Supreme Court Sides With Postal Carrier Who Refused to Work on Sabbath

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "This just makes me very excited to see religious freedom protected and that people don't have to go through what I've gone through," said Mr. Groff in an interview on Thursday afternoon.
60% : Kelly Shackelford, the president and chief counsel for First Liberty, welcomed the decision, saying that it restored "religious freedom to every American in the workplace.""This decision will positively help millions and millions of Americans -- those who work now and their children and grandchildren," she said.
51% : He was represented by First Liberty Institute, the group representing him that describes itself as the largest legal organization in the nation focused exclusively on defending religious freedom.
49% : In the past few years, the Supreme Court has ruled that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team's games, that state programs supporting private schools in Maine and Montana must include religious ones, that a Catholic social services agency in Philadelphia could defy city rules and refuse to work with same-sex couples who apply to take in foster children and that the Trump administration could allow employers with religious objections to deny contraception coverage to female workers.

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