Posted on 06/30/2023 1:34:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a perfect close to “pride month,” the Supreme Court ruled Friday that the alphabet people, or anyone else for that matter, cannot force you to affirm beliefs in violation of your own.
According to the high court, laws like Colorado’s “Anti-Discrimination Act,” which LGBT activists have used to bully Christians into going against their faith, violate Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech.
In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the state of Colorado tried forcing graphic artist Lorie Smith to build a wedding website for a same-sex couple, an act which opposes her Christian belief that marriage is between one man and one woman. The case also impacts the years-long persecution of Masterpiece Cakeshop cake artist Jack Phillips, who similarly refused to make a cake celebrating same-sex marriages.
What’s important to understand about 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, though, is that Smith did not refuse to build a custom website for someone simply because that person is LGBT. Since Smith is a Christian, she did not want to celebrate and endorse same-sex marriage via her creative work, which all parties in the case agree is a form of speech.
LGBT activists, on the other hand, want to compel Smith to violate her faith by forcing her to worship the false idol of intersectionality. Spot the difference? Only one group wants to force their will on another.
Likewise, intimidation and compliance take center stage during pride month. For 30 days now, Americans have been subjected to degenerate public pride events. For instance, nude adults gleefully paraded through the nation’s largest cities in the presence of minors. “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children,” chanted participants of the New York City drag march.
The constantly evolving pride flag has been flown in front of public buildings, including American embassies abroad (disrespecting the cultural norms of various foreign countries) and the White House. Meanwhile, every corporation in America underwent a dramatic rainbow rebrand, often to the annoyance and offense of their loyal customers. And if a company didn’t initiate an over-the-top pride celebration, their ESG scores and standing on the Corporate Equality Index would suffer.
The intent of all these “pride” displays is not equality or acceptance. Same-sex marriage is legal. There is no outlawed sexual orientation or “gender identity.” Americans are free to act on pretty much any sexual proclivity they have — pedophilia being an exemption (although many LGBT activists would like to change that).
Pride month is an opportunity for radical activists to impose their ideology on the entire country. Any business, public school, or person that does not pledge allegiance to pride during the month of June is labeled a bigot and is either socially or financially punished.
Legal harassment is the natural next step to the left’s intense social intimidation. That’s why Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act goes hand-in-hand with pride month. And while the Anti-Discrimination Act was struck down, the left will continue to pass similar unconstitutional legislation every day. Take, for example, a bill recently passed by the Michigan State House of Representatives that could make using wrong pronouns a felony fineable up to $10,000.
Nevertheless, pride’s 2023 social and legislative militancy has been one of the worst received yet, with polls showing that Americans are sick of cynical corporate campaigns and oppose the LGBT targeting of children. The high court’s decision is vindicating for many Americans who have been bullied into silence or even submission this past month. Today we learned that the Constitution still stands.
As Justice Neil Gorsuch said in the majority opinion: “The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands.”
What if a normal person who is not religious declines to do business with customers who practice depravities?
To me, it was “Shame Month”
The tide is turning. Keep the pressure on. I am sure everyone now knows why all this was illegal for hundreds of years in this country and it should be again.
And if and when the supreme court reverses their decision created out of thin air called “qualified immunity” this crap will end
Now get rid of all this pronoun cr**...No one should be fined or put in jail or even reprimanded because they won’t do the pro-noun thing. The pronoun owner...that’s his/her/its choice...has absolutely nothing to do with me,
Right. It’s a victory won, but not the war.
Isn't that how the case that reversed Roe v. Wade came to the court? Didn't the case arise from some sort of effort to stick it to the Pro-Life side? And result in "the right to abortion" getting chucked out?
On a positive note, a golden opportunity for fag baker to cash in...oh wait, it wasn’t about the cake it was about forcing others to bow down to their perversion you say?
Libtards and their pervert cakes can take a flying leap
And take your butt humping web sites with you
I never noticed I thought it was just June ,LOL
Should ANY designer be forced to do business with a group of people who supports and encourages ADULT NAKED MEN TWERKING IN THE STREET or hanging upside down on a cross while another man rubs his body on him? Christian or not, it is despicable, along with the rest of the depraved antics we have had to endure during “pride” month
Proverbs 16: 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Paul Harvey used to say "The Devil always overplays his hand."
July is Patriot Mounth, pass it on.
And the decision on one case that had absolute nationwide consequences, the Moore case out of NC was a disaster.
I guess the US Constitution stating that state legislatures are the ones that make the rules with regards to elections isn’t good enough for Roberts and his liberal pals.
A decision for the NC legislature would have been able to eliminate any outside interference from the Left, Elias, the courts, state SOSs, AGs, Governors. It would all be up to the legislature.
Think....Wisconsin is known as a Blue State. It has a nearly veto-proof Republican majority in its state Congress. One part already is, I think it’s the state Senate. The state House is 2 seats shy. But, because of rulings like this and all the interference, Milwaukee and Madison can generate enough fraud to control the statewide positions.
“What if a normal person who is not religious declines to do business with customers who practice depravities?”
The ruling is NOT that the woman is able to not deal with homosexual customers. It is that they cannot force her to put up a website that celebrates their gay marriage.
If they wanted a website for their coffee shop, she could not refuse to do business with them.
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