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when the chief gets into it with justice kagan is the identity of america and the identity of rights. justice sotomayor said at one point look at how much this court has changed. so much has changed just in the last five years. and she raised this one case from back in the 60s that involved african americans who could only be served through a window of a drive-in rather than come in and sit down at a lunch counter and said essentially this website owner has said she will only sell her wares at a side counter, and then one other part that shows the broader atmospherics with today s supreme court, in the student loan case that involves the power of government. chief justice john roberts essentially saying we are going to interpret this law in a way that negates the power of agencies, department of education here, but of others to
kennedy said good and honorable people can disagree about same-sex marriage. we don t have that in the context of interracial marriage in loving versus virginia. gorsuch ice opinion saying the glory of the first amendment is a capacity to deal with speech we hate. i noticed that she pivoted in the number of ways and saying, oh, this doesn t pertain to somebody at a lunch counter. this doesn t pertain to a wedding web designer who doesn t want to do a wedding for a couple that was polygamist or what have you. what about the web designer who says i do not cater and make messages or websites for interracial couples, right? because that actually falls, you know outside of both of her exceptions, and it s squarely protected under this holding, that i could say i m a christian web designer. i don t believe in interracial marriages so therefore i m not going to design a website for you. the idea that that international couple or same-sex couple could
go to another vendor mistakes the nature of the injury. the nature of the injury, when people were being denied service a the lunch counters, the idea that there would be another lunch counter that would serve black individuals would be totally irrelevant. the harm is in the refusal and the lack of respect for dignity in a public sphere when a business is opening itself to everyone but you and calling it public accommodation. let me read more from justice sotomayor s dissenting opinion. she writes, the first amendment does not entitle petitioners to a special exemption from a state law that simply requires them to serve all members of the public on equal terms. the first amendment like wise does not exempt petitioners from the law s prohibition on posting a notice that they will deny goods or services based on sexual orientation. let s me bring in kimberly atkins stohr to weigh in on this as well. your thoughts on what we just heard from carrie severino and this argument from justice
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