This is CBS, I am the world, I am John Bachelors.

The Supreme Court decision is 6-3.

The case, Creative, 303 Creative LLC versus Eleonus.

I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, teaches

law at NYU in the University of Chicago writing most recently for the Hoover Institution's

defining ideas.

We begin with some of the history of a case that is said by the news reports to turn on

Freedom of Speech, not Freedom of Religion, which was an earlier case coming out of Colorado

called Masterpiece Cake Shop.

Richard, a very good evening to you.

Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion.

That seems to be from your presentation.

An important distinction that the Supreme Court made in its 6-3 majority, ruling in favor

of the young woman Smith, through 3-3 creative, to refuse to work for something she believed

was incorrect, and she believed that she couldn't be forced to work for what she believed

in correct in this case.

It was to do with LGBTQ rights.

Why is that distinction important to the court, religion and speech?

Well, for all sorts of reasons, that really don't make a lot of sense.

I think it's the first answer.

It's because the two sets of doctrines have tracked differently in the case law.

If you look at them as a matter of first principle, Freedom of Speech is allowed to, you

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