Supreme Court sides with web designer who refuses to do gay wedding sites...

Separate but equal in a racial context existed because the majority of the population at that time was fine with it. I don’t think there will be a new separate but equal because the majority of the population will not be fine with it.

 

Maybe. We'll see. But certainly enough of a plurality of those with real power

 

All art work is a professional commissioned work of art (ask) and should be up to the artists to decline.

 

Really smart and relatively brief think piece from Chris Geidner


There are two, starkly divergent ways of reading the 6-3 decision by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

The first reading is that this was a narrow decision, addressing a cabined area of commerce and potentially limited further in practice by the facts of Lorie Smith’s case and the unusual stipulations agreed to by Colorado in the case. The second reading is the message this ruling sends and the door this decision potentially opens, particularly
given a Supreme Court majority that has repeatedly ignored precedent and privileged religious claims over others, to challenges on many fronts seeking ever-more-broad exceptions to nondiscrimination laws.


ANALYSIS

To argue that a narrow reading of 303 Creative v. Elenis is the path forward is certainly a good argument, but it’s not a fact.
Those concerned about the implications of the ruling and the rippling consequences that could become a post-decision aftershock are speaking from a point of persuasion based on our recent experience. And advocates and others seeking to protect robust enforcement of nondiscrimination laws should respond accordingly.


303 Creative, or what happens when an arguably narrow Supreme Court decision meets 2023

 

Exactly. I don't believe for a second that 303 Creative was just a one off. We've had cases steadily leading us here, and we'll continue to have cases leading us exactly to where the Republican majority want to go. Indeed, if Gorsuch wanted this to be a one off, he could have made the limiting principles abundantly clear in his opinion.