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Gorsuch and Sotomayor's clash in gay wedding opinion follows previous skirmish in praying coach ruling

  • Bias Rating

    54% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    52% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -22% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Fox News anchor Shannon Bream and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley discuss the Supreme Court's decision that the First Amendment allows a Christian graphic designer to decline to work on websites for same-sex weddings.
48% : 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.
47% :Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor are once again at odds over a major case concerning the First Amendment.
45% : In a landmark 6-3 decision that pitted the interests of LGBTQ non-discrimination against First Amendment freedom, the Supreme Court on Friday held that a Colorado graphic designer who wants to make wedding websites does not have to create them for same-sex marriages.
40% : The nation's highest court ruled in favor of artist Lorie Smith, who sued the state of Colorado over its anti-discrimination law that prohibited businesses providing sales or other accommodations to the public from denying service based on a customer's sexual orientation.
39% : Still, Sotomayor went on to mention various examples of anti-LGTBQ discrimination and violence in her opinion, seemingly arguing that the Supreme Court's decision on Friday will create more hostility toward the LGBTQ community and lead to more hate crimes.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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