'Heartbreaking': Justice Sotomayor cites rise in LGTBQ+ discrimination in dissent to SCOTUS ruling
The Supreme Court majority sided with a Colorado wedding website designer who wants to deny services to same-sex couples. Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the U.S. Supreme Court of granting businesses the right "to refuse to serve members of a protected class" for the first time in its history. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday in favor of a evangelical Christian website designer who argued that a Colorado anti- discrimination law violated her First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings. Sotomayor noted a nationwide rise in anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and called it "heartbreaking." "Sadly, it is also familiar," she wrote in her dissent. "When the civil rights and women's rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected th...