Posted on 06/30/2023 1:31:38 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a harsh rebuke of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the case of a Christian web designer who the court ruled was not obligated to design websites for gay couples.
"It is difficult to read the dissent and conclude we are looking at the same case," Gorsuch wrote in the 6-3 Supreme Court decision on Friday. That decision said web designer Lorie Smith was not legally required to design websites for gay marriages because doing so would violate her free speech rights and Christian beliefs, despite a Colorado law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Gorsuch said Sotomayor’s dissent in the case "reimagines the facts" from "top to bottom" and fails to answer the fundamental question of, "Can a State force someone who provides her own expressive services to abandon her conscience and speak its preferred message instead?"
"In some places, the dissent gets so turned around about the facts that it opens fire on its own position," Gorsuch wrote. "For instance: While stressing that a Colorado company cannot refuse ‘the full and equal enjoyment of [its] services’ based on a customer’s protected status… the dissent assures us that a company selling creative services ‘to the public’ does have a right ‘to decide what messages to include or not to include…' But if that is true, what are we even debating?"
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The high court's majority stated that "under Colorado’s logic, the government may compel anyone who speaks for pay on a given topic to accept all commissions on that same topic — no matter the message — if the topic somehow implicates a customer’s statutorily protected trait."
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The “wise latina” is an idiot.
All liberals rely on feelings and not facts.
I strongly suspect that this observation went right over Justice Sotomayor's head.
... “wide latina” ...
3 pinko’s always ruling in favor of left-wing idiocy. Never following the rule of law. This case is an open & shut no-brainer; which is probably their problem.
The wise Latina is a lesbian communist.
Sexual preferences shouldn’t be “statutorily protected” in the first place.
Possibly the LBGQT+ crowd should get their people under control. Who wants to do business with or be associated with grown naked men twerking in the streets, clowns dressed up like demons, people hanging from a cross, exposing their genitals or men who insist they have periods, or a women pretending to be a man who shoots up a Christian school, killing six children.
Sotomayer does not understand that gays are not in any way, shape or form a protected class.
Sexual preferences shouldn’t be “statutorily protected” in the first place.
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Gays are not a legally protected class.
Its very worrying to see even the Supreme Court needing to debate basic terms, or even what constitutes basic logic
Its clear for Sotomayor, the Constitution is merely a very broad and vague reference point, to be used, or not, to decide what is allowed according to the spirit of the day.
She then ends every example with a feminine, emotive conclusion “its heartbreaking.”
Is Kagan the only liberal on this court who is intelligent enough to just keep her yap shut?
It seems that way.
under the “Sotomayor standard” I can see newspapers and publishers and media being forced to carry messages with which they disagree. IOW - no more First Amendment (?!)
Imagine that.
Seems to be correct.
She shifted further to the left on this case, though...she normally has been on the correct side in religious liberty cases.
Sotomayor is the IQ challenged on the Court.
Gorsuch with the verbal slapdown.
Thanks to Trump Sotomayor, Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson will be writing inane dissenting opinions for decades.
Why are you blaming Trump? Many of these decisions this week that were good came from his appointees?
You missed the word “dissenting” ... as in “losing, not in the majority”.
Sotomayor is living inside her virtual universe that exists only inside her head. External universe reality is not considered valid as she has decided the universe inside her head is the only true reality.
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