Supreme Court rules that businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court's six conservative justices that the First Amendment "envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands."
46% : For nearly three decades, the court has expanded the rights of LGBTQ people, most notably giving same-sex couples the right to marry in 2015 and announcing five years later in a decision written by Gorsuch that a landmark civil rights law also protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from employment discrimination.
45% : Sotomayor said that the decision's logic "cannot be limited to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity."
38% : In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled on Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.

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