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Supreme Court protects web designer who won’t do gay wedding websites (archive.ph)

submitted 1 year ago by gabuwu@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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Apologies if this is the wrong community for this! Feel free to delete if it is.

Also, this is a big blow to lgbt anti discrimination but it also is a blow to a lot of others as well The way this decision is going to backfire and the fact it will be able to applied against not just lgbt people has not been thought through, at all.

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[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not only did this woman not make websites (and it was just a hypothetical essentially), apparently the person cited for wanting a website for his gay wedding is a straight, married man. So they just made up a nonexistent person for someone's nonexistent job and now there's a law about it.

[–] dcormier@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did this pass muster as having standing?

[–] Laxaria@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You're asking about the same court who found standing for striking down the student debt thing?

in other words, this iteration of SCOTUS finds standing insofar as it fits their political whims regardless of actual legal grounding (unfortunately).