Apr 28th, 2021 3 min read COMMENTARY BY Legal Fellow, Meese Center Sarah Parshall Perry is a Legal Fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The message to private religious citizens, educators, medical professionals, scholastic athletes, or wedding service providers is clear: “Submit, or else. Your religion be hanged.” Hill Street Studios / Getty Images Key Takeaways Some have proffered the Fairness for All Act as the Equality Act’s kinder, “gentler” alternative. Kinder and gentler, it is not. The Supreme Court has repeatedly punted on the balance between religious freedom and the new sexual orthodoxy.