Gay Twitter™ swings back hard against SCOTUS’s latest attempt to strip away our rights
Donald Trump‘s first Supreme Court appointee, authored the majority opinion. “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,” he wrote. “Colorado seeks to deny that promise.” Justice Sonia Sotomayer, meanwhile, authored the dissent. “Today the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class,” she wrote.The court’s decision Friday comes five years it narrowly ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple.
These rulings suggest the rights of LGBTQ+ people, including to same-sex marriage, are now on more tenuous legal footing than before.The American people have the right and the power to fashion a constitutional order that represents our values and our interests.
The Supreme Court never has the final word on what the law says unless we let the justices have the last laugh.The fact that they decided to even hear this case when it was literally fake and hypothetical… https://t.co/Rza7FYTEKlSo in Denver, it should be fairly easy to find someone else to make a wedding website or design flowers.
But what if you lived in, say, rural Mississippi, and the one florist or bakery in your area refused to do work for a same-sex wedding?
