Fucking Religious Reich and this bullshit court…throw it into the fire.
The way they’ve made this ruling while the person at the center or the initial complaint has come forward to say that the entire case was fabricated confirms there’s no bottom to the pit of BS
The level of fabrication would be impressive if it wasn’t so maddeningly illegal.
The guy didn’t contract for a website for his gay marriage.
He didn’t know that guy he was supposedly marrying.
And he’s straight.
And he’s been married to a woman for 15 years.
How did nobody check this out and what penalties can the website designer and lawyers face for lying in court?
What was even the initial lawsuit?
The only way I can see this case happening is if a customer sued because of discrimination. But there was no customer. Who was she suing?
It’s now legal to have a WHITES ONLY sign out front.
Only if you can make the argument that your business is artistic in nature… and if making a website is artistic in nature, surely serving food is too. Ironically this same argument could be applied to Katzenbach v. McClung and find the original ruling unconstitutional.
this is just the status quo. businesses, especially ones operated online, can really reject you for whatever reason they want. you can go full paranoia, and feed into political extremism, or just see this is as what it is; America being at crossroads for what “freedom” really means. Is freedom the ability to shop wherever, or the freedom for business owners to reject whomever they want, no matter the petty-ness of it?
That’s true. Moving past the emotional attempt to rile up the community by stating “throw it into the fire”, it isn’t clearly defined what a business can refuse business for.
If someone at a restaurant acts like a complete jerk and the business rejects providing service, is the business wrong for punishing the customer for expressing their freedom of speech? As long as that customer is not trying to incite violence, as it stands, there is no clarity on which party would be in the right.
