Here's what to know about the gay rights decision.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In a 6 to 3 vote, split along ideological lines, the court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.
47% : But when the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, 303 Creative L.L.C. v. Elenis, No. 21-476, it agreed to decide only one question: "whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment."
45% : At the same time, the ruling limited the ability of the governments to enforce anti-discrimination laws.
40% : It seems we have moved from 'live and let live,'" he wrote, "to 'you can't say that.'"The Supreme Court considered a similar dispute in 2018 after a Colorado baker refused a create a custom wedding cake for a same-sex marriage.
36% : Her opponents said a ruling in her favor would blow a hole through anti-discrimination laws and allow businesses engaged in expression to refuse service to, for example, Black people or Muslims based on odious but sincerely held convictions.
29% : The decision also appeared to suggest that the rights of L.G.B.T.Q. people, including to same-sex marriage, are on more vulnerable legal footing, particularly when they are at odds with claims of religious freedom.

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