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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I don't udnerstand....if someone had come to the web developer with a job to do this website, the developer could have simply said, I am too busy, can I refer you to company X and they will do a great job for you, or some such.

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It’s worse than that, because no one actually came to her with this request at all.[/quote]

Because they probably would not have approached her in the first place, even if she was actually designing wedding websites. So we have a fake SC case that will now limit availability of services to anyone who doesn't like anyone else because of religious reasons. 
Good job../s[/quote]

It came through the courts as an injunction against enforcing the Colorado law against her, preempting lawsuits and penalties that might have/would have come, so she had standing. I don't think the ruling is as broad as you say. As much as I hate this supreme court, I think the court notes in the facts that she provides non-wedding website services to anyone regardless of race, sexual orientation, etc because those services don't involve speech per se. [b]The speech comes in the crafting of the narrative around who these folks are as a couple, uniquely tailored to each couple, blah blah blah[/b]. It's probably BS, but it's also helpful in that it distinguishes other run-of-the-mill services open to the public as not falling under this ruling. [/quote]

You are correct that it is BS.

And this SCOTUS decision opens up an enormous opportunity for those who hate same-sex marriage to claim their product (whatever it is) is "art" and that they are exercising their "free speech" by refusing to sell their "art" to same-sex couples because same-sex marriage violates their beliefs. This can apply to virtually anything -- hotels, restaurants, clothing, catering, invitations, etc.

This case is created and paid for by the anti-gay hate group Alliance Defending Freedom  https://adflegal.org/

Here's what The Guardian says about ADF: 'Through “model legislation” and lawsuits filed across the country, ADF aims to overturn same-sex marriage, enact a total ban on abortion, and strip away the already minimal rights that trans people are afforded in the US.'

That's who is behind this case. "Free speech"? Ha ha ha. No.

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