A Colorado woman claimed that because of her religious beliefs, she shouldn't have to serve LGBTQ couples. The Supreme Court just agreed.
, which prohibits businesses open to the public from discriminating based on various characteristics, including sexual orientation.
“This Court has also long recognized that no public accommodations law is immune from the demands of the Constitution,” Gorsuch wrote. “Countless other creative professionals, too, could be forced to choose between remaining silent, producing speech that violates their beliefs, or speaking their minds and incurring sanctions for doing so.”
In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued that for the first time in its history, the court had declared that a business has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class.
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