The court issued a major ruling on whether businesses can refuse to sell certain products and services if they disagree with the message the customer wishes to convey.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a web designer can refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings on religious grounds. The case involved a Colorado web designer named Lorie Smith, who refused to create a website for a same-sex couple’s wedding. The couple filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, alleging that Smith’s refusal violated their civil rights.

    • joe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t really even have to be “religious”. Any so-called “strongly held belief” now lets people discriminate.

    • cerevant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yep, they seem to have forgotten that it wasn’t that long ago a strongly held religious belief that blacks were lesser beings and needed to be segregated from proper folk.

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The last time the future looked bright for this country I was listening to the radio and heard about the new “grass roots” movement called the"tea party"