“It is unfathomable that in 2019, businesses are still seeking the legal right to discriminate against people who don’t live by the owner’s religious beliefs,” said AU President & CEO Rachel Laser. “Our society and our courts rejected this thinking decades ago when we declared that businesses open to the public must be open to all and that religious beliefs could not be used as a basis for discrimination."

There’s no denying that 2018 was rough for advocates of church-state separation. But there were reasons to celebrate as well. Here’s a look at the year that was – the top 10 church-state stories from 2018 and how they might affect 2019.

Trying to improperly broaden the Supreme Court’s narrow Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling, Religious Right legal groups are steering businesses to courts across the country, where business owners are seeking the right to slam their doors shut on customers who don’t live by the owners’ religious beliefs.