LGBT rights yield to religious interests at US Supreme Court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% :Colorado is one of 22 U.S. states with measures explicitly barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations.
48% : The court in 2021 decided another dispute involving tensions between equality protections and religious freedom.
45% : In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the court in a 9-0 ruling embraced religious rights over LGBT rights, siding with a Catholic Church-affiliated agency that sued after Philadelphia refused to place children for foster care with the organization because it barred same-sex couples from applying to become foster parents.
43% :"The court treated Jack Phillips' claim of discrimination with extreme deference and sensitivity, while entirely glossing over the discrimination against the same-sex couples in that case," Platt said.
42% : In its 7-2 ruling in 2018 in the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the court decided that the commission had shown impermissible hostility toward religion when it found that Phillips violated the state anti-discrimination law by rebuffing two men who were getting married.
42% : The justices in that case stopped short of issuing a definitive ruling on the circumstances under which people can seek exemptions from anti-discrimination laws based on religion.
30% : Kennedy's emphasized the dignity of gay couples in his landmark 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015.

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