A business can decline service based on its beliefs, Supreme Court rules - but what will this look like in practice?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "Questions aheadTo see how 303 Creative's impact plays out, it is worth closely watching the parts of the U.S. with anti-discrimination statutes in place.
54% : The other is the interest of same-sex couples in hiring the services they wish - and simply to be treated equally in the eyes of the law, on par with any other potential customers.
52% : But on June 30, 2023, a bitterly divided Supreme Court reversed that judgment, holding 6-3 that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibited state officials from requiring the designer to create a website that communicates a message with which she disagrees.
51% : The question before the court was "whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment."
47% : If Smith wants to "advocate the idea that same-sex marriage betrays God's laws," Sotomayor made it clear that she can.
46% : Specifically, 303 Creative addressed whether a Colorado anti-discrimination law can require a designer who believes marriage is only between a man and a woman to create a wedding website for a same-sex couple.
43% : Denying services to same-sex couples "reminds LGBT people of a painful feeling that they know all too well," she wrote.
38% :Sotomayor then argued that under Colorado's anti-discrimination law, Smith's "freedom of speech is not abridged in any meaningful sense, factual or legal."
33% : The federal trial court in Colorado rejected Smith's attempt to block enforcement of the anti-discrimination law in 2019.

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