U.S. Supreme Court rules that businesses can discriminate against gays.
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U.S. Supreme Court rules that businesses can discriminate against gays.
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The United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain businesses can refuse to provide services to same-sex weddings, a ruling advocates say discriminate against LGBTQ Americans.
The court ruled 6-3 in favor of a Colorado web designer who argued that she has the right under the First Amendment to refuse to create wedding websites for gay people.
Lori Smith, the website designer who brought the case, was never even hired to make a website for a same-sex couple, nor has she ever created a wedding website, HuffPost reports.
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Smith, an evangelical Christian who opposes marriage between anyone other than a man and a woman, sued Colorado’s civil rights commission and other state officials in 2016, saying she feared being punished under the state’s public accommodations law for refusing to serve gay weddings.
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