The Supreme Court ruled a wedding web designer can refuse to work on same-sex weddings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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51% : The case was anticipated to be a landmark ruling on the rights of gay couples, three years after a right to same-sex marriage became federal law in Obergefell v. Hodges.
48% : "I'm interested in the intersection of public accommodations law and speech."""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."
45% : The court ruled in a 6-3 majority today (June 30) that 303 Creative's stance is protected by the First Amendment, in a case set to have wide-ranging implications for discrimination laws around the country.
45% : In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado, in one of the most high-profile anti-discrimination cases in decades.
43% : The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Colorado design company that objected to creating wedding websites for same-sex couples.
38% : The plaintiffs successfully argued that states without gay marriage were illegal preventing spouses from receiving access to financial benefits like social security and joint tax filing.
37% : For the record, Stewart-a graphic designer himself-said he disagrees with Moore's decision to reject same-sex couples "in the strongest possible terms."
34% : The late justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who nonetheless expressed support for LGBTQ rights in the past, attempted to balance protections for same-sex couples with a commitment to free speech protections in his majority decision.
30% : Lorie Smith, an evangelical graphic designer opposed to same-sex marriage, preemptively sued the state for discriminating against her religious beliefs after apparently refusing to build a wedding website for a same-sex couple, citing Colorado's wide-ranging public accommodations law as evidence she would be forced to violate her free speech.
23% : Justice Kennedy, in the majority opinion, framed the case as a moral issue: "It is demeaning to lock same-sex couples out of a central institution of the Nation's society, for they too may aspire to the transcendent purposes of marriage."

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