John Bursch, a lawyer at the conservative nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom who represented Meriwether, praised the decision. “Nobody should be forced to contradict their core beliefs just to keep their job,” he said.
>>“A university president could require a pacifist to declare that war is just, a civil rights icon to condemn the Freedom Riders, a believer to deny the existence of God, or a Soviet émigré to address his students as ‘comrades,’” he added. “That cannot be.”
John Bursch, a lawyer at the conservative nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom who represented Meriwether, praised the decision. “Nobody should be forced to contradict their core beliefs just to keep their job,” he said.