Justices hear major case on free speech, faith and LGBTQ equality

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The Supreme Court hears a website designer's anti-discrimination law challenge, a major case on free speech, faith and LGBTQ equality.

or face a fine. At the same time, the justices seemed wary about the ramifications of a broad ruling in her favor, suggesting a desire to potentially resolve the case on narrow grounds.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the case boils down to a simple question: "How do you characterize website designers? Are they more like the restaurants and the jewelers and the tailors, or are they more like, you know, the publishing houses and other free speech analogues?" The latter are given broad discretion under the First Amendment's freedom of speech.

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

"This court has protected vile, awful, reprehensible, violent speech in the past," replied Waggoner, Smith's attorney. "No one should be compelled to speak a message."

 

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Why should gay be equal to breed like pigs, don't know how to rise above the natural order of things? A.T.A.R., otherwise too slow...

WHAT ABOUT THE DEPT OF JUSTICE BREAKING THE LAW? THEY DISCRIMINATE! THEY HOLD MY GIRLFRIENDS GRANT CHECK CUZ SHE DATES ME!

What i dont understand is, why do people make such a stink about it. There's plenty of gay owned or business that appreciates your money. Yet some lawyer gets paid and your life is chaos. With everyone else needing your business, it makes no sense...

Why would any member of the LGBTQ community patronize someone who isn’t interested in doing a good job? I get that this is a set up case.

how can ABC ignore the biggest scandal in US history? Collusion to silence a legitimate news story days before an election. The country needs to wake up.

The case is actually about whether a business should be allowed to discriminate against anyone based upon their beliefs or skin color or whatever.

Any word of the hate group that brought this litigation to the Supreme Court, or how the right-wing, religious extremist, billionaire-funded network is using the law to subvert and undermine it?

Free speech not available in dems mind!

Nothing on David Muir’s reporting about the Twitter news today?

Is the Colorado law making targets out of those who exercise their right to not to violate their own religious principals?

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