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Calm yourself, it's not as bad as it legally sounds.
06/05/18 01:48 PM
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From an ACLU e-mail I got:
> Today was the big day for Masterpiece Cakeshop v. > Colorado. The Supreme Court reversed the Colorado decision > based on concerns specific to this case, but importantly, > the Court recognized that the Constitution doesn't give > businesses open to the public the right to discriminate.
> People are already saying today's decision means that > businesses can turn away LGBT people. It doesn't. And our > laws should make crystal clear that no business has the > right to discriminate against customers based on sexual > orientation or gender identity.
It comes down to a matter of wording. The ruling was more based on a matter of procedure, rather than based on the merits of the case itself. And what wording does exist in the ruling is pretty clear, despite its apparently negative result, that businesses cannot, in fact, turn away LGBT people.
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