In the latest June/July print edition of First Things, Hadley Arkes takes on the Church’s best defenders on the Supreme Court. Arkes argues that Justices Alito and Gorsuch have inadvertently been “Backing Into Relativism” in their defence of religious liberty. In particular, Arkes takes the Court to task for rescuing the Masterpiece baker, Jack Phillips, in a way which may have “set off some deeper tremors in our law” by a simple new relativistic maxim: just as we “protect speech we hate” so must we “protect religious beliefs we find offensive.” Is anything protected if everything is protected? Arkes asks: if our law should protect anything, no matter how offensive, then isn’t “offensiveness” just in the eye of the beholder. “What about Satanism?” he asks.