# North Carolina passes hateful Amendment 1 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 9, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-carolina-passes-hateful-amendment-1/621351 "2012-05-09T02:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 248
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-carolina-passes-hateful-amendment-1/621351/248 "2012-05-10T16:56:47Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Look, I’m not going to keep repeating myself, and I realize that I cant argue you guys onto being smarter. The simple fact of the matter is that sexual orientation is not currently a suspect classification. Of you think it should be, then fine, you are free to have your opinion. If you think that the current suspect classifications support treating sexual orientation as a suspect classification, you are wrong because of the immutability issue. Religious affiliation as a suspect classification is not a counterpoint to the immutability issue because it rests on different underpinnings (ie, the fundamental nature of the right to free exercise of religion) . Did you not read the citation from Dukes? Religious classifications are _generally_ reviewed under strict scrutiny because they involve the exercise of a fundamental right, but it’s clear that the Court has accepted religion as a suspect class. I don’t think it makes sense, because religion is clearly not an immutable characteristic, but jabbering about how everyone else needs to “be smarter” isn’t making _you_ look very smart. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-carolina-passes-hateful-amendment-1/621351)._