Supreme Court: Gov't Can't Force Christian Businesses to Promote Same-Sex Weddings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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."
48% : "The First Amendment protects an individual's right to speak his mind regardless of whether the government considers his speech sensible and well-intentioned or deeply 'misguided,'" Gorsuch wrote.
46% :The decision, Waggoner said, is a "win for all Americans.""The government should no more censor Lorie for speaking consistent with her beliefs about marriage than it should punish an LGBT graphic designer for declining to criticize same-sex marriage," Waggoner said.
43% : "The framers," he said, "designed the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to protect the 'freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think.' ...
41% : Under that logic, Gorsuch argued, the government could require "an unwilling Muslim movie director to make a film with a Zionist message" or "an atheist muralist to accept a commission celebrating Evangelical zeal.""Equally, the government could force a male website designer married to another man to design websites for an organization that advocates against same-sex marriage," he wrote.

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