Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
You seem to have missed it that the author was just repeating what Kennedy said about Rice. Here, let me post that much so maybe you can read it sans your bias.
So you dislike the author because he quoted Kennedy? Odd.a key part of Kennedy’s ruling.
“The Civil Rights Commission’s treatment of his case has some elements of a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs that motivated [Phillips’] objection,” Kennedy wrote. Among other things, he cited the words of Commissioner Diann Rice:
“Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust, whether it be—I mean, we—we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use to—to use their religion to hurt others.”
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler