Supreme Court says Baptists cops must enforce laws
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You'd think that Jesus would want Baptist cops to fight sin.
The state trooper had said that the gambling enforcement assignment would force him to violate his religious beliefs.
Benjamin Endres sued the state and lost. He wanted the Supreme Court to use his case to require law enforcement agencies to accommodate the religious views of employees. Justices refused to take on another religious case.
Endres, who is Baptist, said he was not opposed to general casino crime-fighting, but could not go along when the state designated him a full-time gaming officer and ordered him to report to a casino in Michigan City, Ind.