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In what is shaping up to be a cascade of decisions that limit the rights of minority groups, the Supreme Court has decided that a Christian web designer has a First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings. This new ruling comes just a day after the Supreme Court Justices banned affirmative action in higher education.
The decision, handed down on Friday, dilutes legal protections for LGBTQ people.
By a 6-3 vote, the justices sided with Lorie Smith, an evangelical Christian and Colorado web designer who opposes same-sex marriage. Colorado law bars businesses from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, but Smith argued that the free speech guarantee of the federal Constitution entitles her to an exemption from that law.
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