Supreme Court rules businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers
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Nice shot!
Into the Night
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The only people offended by such owners are people the owners don't want in their business anyway. Meh.
Into the Night
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No, you don't.
Yes it does.
Correct, though not a required condition.
Into the Night
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If you don't like the Constitution, you can always move to a nation which has the oppressive government you crave. Perhaps Cuba, Argentina, Canada, the USSR, China, Laos?
Into the Night
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If one wishes to operate their business according to their own religious beliefs, they have all the authority they need to do so.
Government has NO authority to pass a law otherwise.
There is no law saying you have to speak to anybody (except for identification).
A belief based on thousands of years of religious doctrine is in no way, bigotry.
Supreme Court rules businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/30/supreme-court-lgbtq-wedding-website
WINNING AND ON A ROLL!!!!!
What a tragedy for the US and confirmation that the alt reich is determined to eliminate centuries of social progress. At least the Republicans keep signing up for Anti-Equality. There's always the next election.
Anyone refusing service to same sex couples because of "religion" is not only a fake xtian but also obviously consorts with adulterers and liars.
Tinkerpeach
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This Court is the best court in our entire history.
They are going to pull our nation back from the brink of insanity.
Keep up the great work!
They are going to pull our nation back from the brink of insanity.
Keep up the great work!
Name me one single "Gay" who wouldn't vomit if he was forced to stand within six feet of you.
This is exactly what we expected. "No Gays" "No Blacks" "No Trans" "No Non-White" "No Non-Straight"
The gutter scum of humanity, which volsrock represents without pay, wants to maintain their unearned privilege and devolve into tadpoles. I say we continue the fight. They're all nearly dead anyway.
Callinectes
Proud MAGA Semi-Facist
You should contact that woman and tell her you're a lying adulterer and you want her to design a website for adulterers and liars. I mean, otherwise how should she know you're a lying adulterer?
Why the torture of Christians though? Don't you think there are a shit ton of gay website designers, wedding cake bakers, and all sorts of service providers starving for business under taternomics?
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
Assuming it's possible that you could conceivably possess some kind of creative, or artistic or technical talent, I would L♥VE to see your reaction when some far right-wing, conservative group came to you, and requested your services to create something that expressed and promoted their views and ideas. Maybe a cake, or a mural, or a website or whatever, that totally blasted as immoral, repugnant and disgusting, any and all non-Christian, non-heterosexual lifestyle choices and proclaimed The Bible as the guiding law that all humans must be held to.
And then the law, because the SCOTUS ruled the way you wanted them to, FORCED you to create this expression of ideas you find abhorrent under threat of a lawsuit.
That would be soooooooooooo satisfying.
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
The law only applies to services that involve the promotion of a message, Karen.
Are you violating your deeply held religious beliefs already?
Asking that question would mean you are willing to talk to gay people.
Assuming it's possible that you could conceivably possess some kind of creative, or artistic or technical talent, I would L♥VE to see your reaction when some far right-wing, conservative group came to you, and requested your services to create something that expressed and promoted their views and ideas. Maybe a cake, or a mural, or a website or whatever, that totally blasted as immoral, repugnant and disgusting, any and all non-Christian, non-heterosexual lifestyle choices and proclaimed The Bible as the guiding law that all humans must be held to.
And then the law, because the SCOTUS ruled the way you wanted them to, FORCED you to create this expression of ideas you find abhorrent under threat of a lawsuit.
That would be soooooooooooo satisfying.
You either don't understand how to make an analogy or you don't understand the issues here. My guess is that it's both on top of the fact that you're a supremely stupid wannabe troll.
First of all, far right-wing, conservative groups are not a protected class. From a federal standpoint, neither are LGBTQ people. In Colorado, however, where the case originated, LGBTQ people are a class protected from discrimination. So you're already wrong.
Second of all, the website designer was never harmed. She never provided services to a gay couple. No gay couple ever asked her for services. She never denied services to a gay couple. She never had any interaction with the state except to sue it because she wanted to preemptively secure her "right" to shit on LGBTQ people because she's a bigot and a wicked false xtian. I haven't read the entire ruling yet, but I also haven't heard any media coverage about standing. I'm sure the web designer somehow achieved standing, but that in and of itself is mind blowing when we consider that the Supreme Court of the United States decided to rule on a hypothetical case that never actually happened just to inject itself into the country's culture wars. This is a YOLO court on a kamikaze mission to end equal protections and civil rights for every non-white, non-male, non-Christian, non-straight individual in the US. The white bitch on the Court did as she was told to do and voted with the white men, but the far right agenda that has stolen our highest court is for the exclusive benefit of dying men like you with nothing to lose and all the time in the world to bitch.
Next, homosexuality is not a "lifestyle". For fuck sake, how old are you? Yachting is a lifestyle. Golf club culture is a lifestyle. Being Black, gay, short, or female is not a "lifestyle". So I sure as shit can refuse to make a swastika cake for your next KKK potluck. But you know what's even better? I don't sell my goods and services on the public market. I'm smart enough to realize that regressive, racist, homophobic pieces of shit are not worth doing business with. So, rather than be the bitchy little snowflakes you people are, and demand to be exempted from the laws that apply to every other inhabitant of Colorado, I choose to make my living where the law and my sensibilities intersect.
Next time you think about limping toward me with some weak ass bullshit like that, think twice. On your best day, you're not half as smart as I am on my worst day.
Smart post. She achieved standing by the majority gifting it to her for handing them this titillating "case".
That same stupid line has been bleated out like sheep since the 60's....Still here.
Why do LWers so foolishly believe that there is only a finite number of politically conservative people when the truth is that replacements are born every....single....day ? I mean,.....you would think that having bleated out the same nonsense for damn near 60 years only to be continually proven wrong would embarrass the left. BONUS......The farther left the left goes......THE MORE OF US YOU HELP CREATE. 
No, it doesn't, you fucking idiot. The law applies to employment practices, housing practices, PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION (I capitalized that one because I'm quite sure you wouldn't understand that this is what we're talking about otherwise), and advertising. It specifically applies to the treatment of individuals within those categories based on their race, color, religion, national origin/ancestry, sex, pregnancy, disability, SEXUAL ORIENTATION INCLUDING TRANSGENDER STATUS (capitalized again for the same reason), age, marital status, and familial status.
The ruling, which is what I believe you were trying to mumble from your toothless mouth when you mentioned "the law", applies to "expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees". That's hardly a more helpful meaning than the nonsense you typed.
What you lack is even the slightest, most tenuous grasp of civil rights legislation, its causes, and its intentions. There was a time -- no doubt of which you were a part -- when businesses could deny service to people "for any reason". Of course, the reason was usually that a person was Black. The silver-spooned, lily white bigmouths of the world proclaimed that Black people should just shop where they are welcome. But guess what? If you're not welcome at a gas station within 500 miles, then you can't drive your car. If you can't sleep in a motel room within 500 miles, then you have to sleep in that car that you can't drive. If you can't find anyone willing to serve you a sandwich within 500 miles, then you can chew on the upholstery of that bed/car you can't drive and begin to plan for a civil rights revolution.
What your uneducated, shortsighted "analysis" fails to comprehend is that when that bitch website designer who never designed nor was ever asked to design a single thing for any gay couple ever (get your messaging straight -- she's the Karen, not me -- all Karens and Kevins are self entitled, whiny, white people, period) she opens the barndoor for the rest of you mentally ill assholes to refuse "expressive designs" to First Communions, interracial relationships, and Bar Mitzvahs. You're as thrilled about the anti-LGBTQ ruling as you are the anti-affirmative action ruling because you have never been on the receiving end of meaningful discrimination ever in your life. That's your privilege. Your blissful ignorance of what it's like to be a minority. Yet you have the nerve to sit behind your keyboard and tell us that you have some constitutionally guaranteed right to deny our humanity and citizenship.
Get fucked, Nomad. You're a loser and not smart at all.
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