Opinion | US Supreme Court Wants to Make America More Bigoted Again

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'The Supreme Court appears hell-bent on making America bigoted again. Step-by-step, they're undoing every bit of progressive legislation from the past 80 years that they can find.'

Bigots are switching to"creative expression" instead of religion as the club they'll use to beat down public accommodation laws.The Supreme Court appears hell-bent on making America bigoted again. Step-by-step, they're undoing every bit of progressive legislation from the past 80 years that they can find.

But, particularly since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, there are boundaries around who you can and can't refuse to serve. Under federal law, you can toss out somebody because they're wearing a tee-shirt that has offensive language printed on it, but you can't toss out somebody because they're Black or wearing a yarmulke.specifically says a company doing business with the public can't discriminate based on"race, color, religion, or national origin.

Instead, Republicans on the Court used their majority status to decide, from among her various arguments, to shift the frame toward"creative expression," choosing to decide: Tearing down Colorado's law in the name of"creative expression" is the new strategy for"Christian" fundamentalists to attack public accommodation laws; this is in large part a repeat of theirto strike down Colorado's public accommodation law in the infamous 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop gay wedding cake case.

 

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