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Leigh @beehaw.org

2y ago

Gay Rights Ruling: Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage

www.nytimes.com

Gay Rights vs. Free Speech: Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage

Fucking Religious Reich and this bullshit court...throw it into the fire.

5 comments

The way they've made this ruling while the person at the center or the initial complaint has come forward to say that the entire case was fabricated confirms there's no bottom to the pit of BS
this is just the status quo. businesses, especially ones operated online, can really reject you for whatever reason they want. you can go full paranoia, and feed into political extremism, or just see this is as what it is; America being at crossroads for what "freedom" really means. Is freedom the ability to shop wherever, or the freedom for business owners to reject whomever they want, no matter the petty-ness of it?
- businesses, especially ones operated online, can really reject you for whatever reason they want.
  Legally speaking, this isn't actually true, at least in America. Businesses are not legally allowed to discriminate against protected classes. For example, it's the reason why it's illegal to refuse service to someone simply because they're black (race is a protected class) but ok to discriminate against say redheads (hair color is not a protected class).
- False. It is illegal to discriminate against someone based on race, religion or sex, according to Title 2 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
  America was at a crossroads of what freedom really meant 60 years ago, not today. It is now long-established law that freedom is the ability to shop wherever.
  All that is up for debate is whether sexual orientation should be included, despite not being explicitly included. Textualists say no, intentionalists say yes.