On the last day of the 2020-21 session, the U.S. Supreme issued relief and worry for the LGBTQ community. On the relief side, the court on July 2 indicated it would not hear the appeal of a florist who turned away a couple getting married because they are LGBTQ.
The case, Arlene's Flowers v. Washington, purported to be the "ideal vehicle" for resolving the original question skirted in Masterpiece v.
Colorado. In Masterpiece, in 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 in favor of a baker who refused to sell wedding cakes for a same-sex wedding because, he said, to do so violated his religious beliefs.
But the court did not say the baker had a First Amendment free exercise right to violate Colorado's law against sexual orientation