Ben Platt Slams ‘Backwards’ Anti-LGBT Supreme Court Ruling: ‘Harming People for No Reason’

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“It feels so backwards, so directly backwards,” says the Dear Evan Hansen star.

star continued. “That’s the only way to stay any kind of optimistic about it because otherwise it’s just fully going back in time and harming people for no reason. It feels so backwards, so directly backwards.”favors religious freedom over gay rights and overrides a Colorado law contested by the web designer that forbade discrimination against gay people by businesses open to the public.

In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor countered that the Colorado anti-discrimination law “targets conduct, not speech, for regulation, and the act of discrimination has never constituted protected expression under the First Amendment.”against antisemitic protesters who showed up outside the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre during the opening night of previews for, an ongoing Broadway musical in which Platt stars as Leo Frank.

“It was a wonderful reminder of why we’re telling this particular story, and how special and powerful art and especially theater can be,” he said at the time. “I wanted the button on this evening, at least for me personally, to be to celebrate what a beautiful experience [the show] is and what gorgeous work all of my wonderful colleagues did tonight, not the really ugly actions of a few people who are spreading evil.

 

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