Gay Twitter™ swings back hard against SCOTUS’s latest attempt to strip away our rights

The Supreme Court as composed June 30, 2022 to present.
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To cap off Pride Month, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that private businesses have a right to deny LGBTQ+ people goods and services. And unsurprisingly, LGBTQ+ folx across the country aren’t happy about it.

In a 6 to 3 vote among ideological lines, the uber-conservative court sided with a Colorado web designer who says her Christian faith requires her to turn away same-sex couples looking for wedding-related services to celebrate their marriage.

Though Colorado state law prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, the designer, Lorie Smith, says the non-discrimination statute violates her right to free speech.

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, it set out to rule on whether applying a “public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump‘s first Supreme Court appointee, authored the majority opinion. “The First Amendment envisions the United States as a…

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