Sotomayor says Supreme Court ruling condemns LGBTQ people to 'second-class status’
Posted on AllSides June 30th, 2023
From The Left
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Friday that the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of a Christian web designer who refused to work on same-sex couples' weddings is "profoundly wrong" and condemns the LGBTQ community to "second-class status." Sotomayor, in a 38 page dissent, said the court's decision issues a "new license to discriminate" against LGBTQ people. “The Supreme Court of the United States declares that a particular kind of business, though open to the public, has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class,” Sotomayor wrote. "The...