State legislatures around the country started coming back in session last month. While the Trump administration’s continued attacks on church-state separation keep making headlines, the fight to protect religious freedom in the states can’t be ignored.

Nothing in the university’s policies prevented the professor from going to the church of his choice, reading religious books, praying or holding whatever beliefs he wanted to about transgender people. He was, however, required to treat all of his students with dignity, decency and respect.

The issue of whether secular, for-profit businesses have a right under 'religious freedom' to deny services to people they decide are “sinful” is roiling the country now. Several cases are in the pipeline, and sooner or later the Supreme Court will have to face the issue head-on.