What the Supreme Court's LGBTQ rights decision means | News Channel 3-12

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In 2020, Gorsuch delivered a massive win to the LGBTQ community when he delivered the majority opinion in a case that extended federal protections to gay, lesbian and transgender workers.
44% : "There's going to be a relatively large range of businesses who can lay claim to free speech rights against anti-discrimination laws."
43% : "There was nothing in the opinion that limits it to objections to same sex marriage," Franke added.
42% : "So I think the category of businesses that will be able to claim free speech rights against anti-discrimination laws is not at all clear.
42% : In that case, the conservative majority changed the test courts are to use when analyzing the constitutionality of firearm regulations, opening the floodgates for all sorts of gun safety laws to be challenged in federal court.
42% : And in 2015, the court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, a long fought victory for members of the community.
41% : As of this month, 22 states, the US Virgin Islands and Washington, DC, had laws on their books that explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, according to the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that advocates for LGBTQ rights, while another five states interpret "existing prohibition(s) on sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and/or gender identity."
41% : She suggested that the decision's "logic cannot be limited to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity," and wrote that it "threatens to balkanize the market and to allow the exclusion of other groups from many services."

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