SCOTUS makes major LGBTQ+ rights decision

Can businesses turn LGBTQ+ customers away? The Supreme Court has decided …

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00:00In a major ruling, the Supreme Court has sided with an evangelical Christian web designer in

00:05Colorado who doesn't want to make websites for same-sex weddings. The ruling stemmed from a case

00:10brought on by Lori Smith, who has seemingly never even been asked to create a same-sex wedding

00:14website. Smith sought to dismantle Colorado's public accommodations law, which states that

00:19businesses cannot deny services to customers due to their sexual orientation. In a 6-3 ruling,

00:24SCOTUS overturned that law, deciding that business owners have a free speech right under

00:29the First Amendment to refuse to endorse messages they disagree with. LGBTQ advocates across the

00:35nation say the ruling is essentially a license to discriminate. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented,

00:41saying that this is a quote, sad day in American constitutional law and the lives of LGBT people.