Allowed teacher to proceed with claim that refusal to use a student’s preferred pronouns is protected by the teacher’s free-exercise rights
State supreme courts are increasingly a venue for debate over history’s role in constitutional interpretation.
The justices rejected the federal First Amendment standard but differed about what the standard should be and how to discern the original meaning of the state constitutional provision.
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