let alone a website for a same-sex wedding to build his wedding website. despite the very real questions raised by this reporting, today, conservative justices went ahead and rules in law isthmus favor and open the door to discrimination against the lgbtq+ community in this country. here s what justice sotomayor said in her dissent, a dissent allowing for her to read to emphasize her disagreement from the bench. she won part, quote, by issuing this let me license to discriminate in a case brought by a company that seeks to deny same-sex couples the full and equal enjoyment have been services, the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second class status. in
ahead and rules in law isthmus favor and open the door to discrimination against the lgbtq+ community in this country. here s what justice sotomayor said in her dissent, a dissent allowing for her to read to emphasize her disagreement from the bench. she won part, quote, by issuing this let me license to discriminate in a case brought by a company that seeks to deny same-sex couples the full and equal enjoyment have been services, the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second class status. in this way, the decision itself inflicts a kind of stigmatic harm on top of any harm caused by denials of service. joining me now is illicit jared grant, start staff writer at newark republic, author of that report. miss grant, thank you so much for being here. i have a lot of questions. this reporting was incredible. let me start with the basics. how sure are you that the
in society as a whole. along how the constitution handles race and specifically, how the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which, of course, was enacted after the civil war to ensure that freed black people had equal rights, what a sent does that mean the law is equal to everyone which that is the story, which is the position taking by justice thomas, or whether there is a promise of equality there, that they are, for there s some room to allow for measures like affirmative action, that would allow black people to get some sort of, a step up, that would help them to get a quality. which justice thomas does not think is lawful. but obviously, justice jackson sinks very much is. let s talk about another big case, the big one involving a christian web designer, just to sort of sonoma your wrote in her dissent, the immediate symbolic effect of the decision is to mark jason lesbians, for second class status. lawrence, because this case was
by a company that seeks to deny these couples of their services, the decision is to make gays and lesbians for second class status. i know justice roberts and gorsuch, you know, in a lawyerly why as shannon said ripped that argument apart. but let me ask you, kristin, what your response is to that from the dissent. well, as the majority rightly pointed out, justice sotomayor was writing about a different case that was presented to the court. lori serves everyone. she always has. she has clients that identify as lgbt and makes the decision on the message, not the person requesting it. today s decision assures that nondiscrimination laws continue to ensure that we all have access to goods and services, but also it ensures that no one can be compelled by the government to say something that we don t believe.
in a country like america this comes up and businesses and visa settings, because we are a capitalist economy. it s part of how we live. there was a scathing dissent from the bench, talking about not protected free speech. she said the court is literally putting out a notice that reads some services may be denied to same-sex consult couples by issuing what she called in effect a new license to discriminate, and the ruling condemns lgbtq people to a kind of, quote, second-class status of the marketplace. the court also went after a biting campaign promise striking down his student loan forgiveness program, saying he overstepped his federal authority. as i ve told you, we always try to give you context and all of these matters. this is an area where there is more precedent because there are always questions in every administration about presidential authority and how