(Commentary) GetReligion regulars know that The Guy always watches the thinking of Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia Law School, who has long favored legalized gay marriage. With Fulton he filed a religion brief in tandem with Thomas Berg of the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Their defense of near-absolute freedom of conscience starts from John Locke in 1690 and what America’s founders intended, seen for instance in exempting Quakers from general laws on military service and courtroom oaths.