The case before the justices pit free speech against gay rights involved a Christian web designer who said she shouldn’t be compelled to violate the tenets of her faith by creating products for same-sex marriages.
Artists can refuse business that would force them to violate their own beliefs, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a decision that said the First Amendment trumps public accommodation laws.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing the dissent for the three Democrat-appointed justices, called the ruling an unprecedented attack on LGBTQ rights, reversing the trail the court blazed when it established a national right to same-sex marriage and extended workplace protections based on sexual orientation.
Colorado said that under its public accommodation law, which has been the subject of previous Supreme Court challenges, once she provided a service for some, she couldn’t refuse others because of their message. He envisioned a time when the government could force a Muslim filmmaker to produce a video with a Zionist message, or an atheist muralist compelled to create artwork celebrating “Evangelical zeal.”
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