Posted on 07/03/2023 7:01:52 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday slammed the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a Christian web designer in Colorado who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of religious objections, saying the case was designed “for the clear purpose of chipping away” at LGBTQ equality.
“It’s very revealing that there’s no evidence that this web designer was ever even approached by anyone asking for a website for a same-sex wedding,” Buttigieg, the first out Cabinet secretary confirmed by the Senate, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority, in a 6-3 opinion, ruled Friday for Lorie Smith, the Colorado web designer, on free speech grounds, with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing, “All manner of speech – from ‘pictures, films, paintings, drawings, and engravings,’ to ‘oral utterance and the printed word’ – qualify for the First Amendment’s protections.”
Smith said in court filings that a man had inquired about her services for his same-sex wedding. But as CNN previously reported, the man in question says that he never reached out to Smith – and that he’s straight and married to a woman.
“There’s something in common between this Supreme Court ruling and what we’re seeing happening in state legislatures across the country, which is kind of a solution looking for a problem,” Buttigieg said Sunday. “In other words, sending these kinds of things to the courts and sending these kinds of things to state legislatures for the clear purpose of chipping away at the equality and the rights that have so recently been won in the LGBTQ+ community.”
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Got it! *WINK*
And what’s wrong with chipping away? Liberals have been doing that to the Constitution for decades.
Pete is queer.... that’s all
His sole reason for being is cheer leading and carrying the flag. He has no worthwhile abilities
This is a country of over 300 million people.
If a person doesn’t want to work with or for you, find another person who will.
Pothole Pete strikes again. Feel the sting of a wet noodle.
The government was holding a sword over all artists heads with the rule/law being challenged. Even if it was not enforced often or at all, it is a weapon the government can use against anyone at any time. That is the problem with having so many laws. Most people break multiple laws per day and it is all discretionary if anyone is going to attempt to prosecute them.
Bootee fudge speaks........NO one listens. News flash booteeplug, equal rights and ‘special’ rights are NOT the same.
Neither Christianity nor SCOTUS is what’s been chipping away at Pete’s poop grip.
Does buttplug know he’s Transportation Secretary and should just do his job and SHUT UP
How many website designers did the plaintiffs and their lawyers call before they found the proper defendant for their lawsuit? I’ll bet it was more than a few.
It doesn’t chip away at EQUALITY. It chips away at Homo-SUPERIORITY. It says homos are not a super special class of people who can make everyone else bow down to them!
The equality that sodomites have to look forward to is the temperature in the Lake of Fire.
You are free to get your jollies and we are free not to have to participate in your rituals.
Do you like freedom or do you not?
Pete the massive Incompetent finds time to run the Supreme Court - but can’t get the FAA airline traffic back to normal - and are we still at 1000 derailments a year. we just had one nearby. remember the Best and the Brightest? now we get the Worst of the Dimmest.
Thy want equality, acceptance, respect? Then Pete should speak out against the depravity we have seen in the past month. No one wants to see disgusting adult naked men twerking in the streets, or hanging upside down on a cross while being fondled by another man.
1975
I’d like a beer.
Sorry, Brian, you are under age 18 and we may not sell you beer.
2023
I’m 17 and I’d like to have my boobs chopped off.
How will you be paying?
Just charge it to the taxpayers of the state.
This was not a case about being served in a restaurant or treated at a hospital. The Court is not touching general civil rights laws. What it said is that when expression is involved, the 1A is implicated. A web designer cannot be forced to express a message he does not want to just like an Artist cannot be forced to paint something he does not want to. This doesn’t harm gay equality one bit. In fact, it means that a gay designer can’t be forced to create a “God hates f@gs” site.
STAY in your OWN LANE, PETEY...
You are out of your depth no matter where you are.
Telling the American traveler that you/the Feds will hire 3300 new Air Traffic Controllers in 2023/2024 is a blatant lie.
THERE are no such people being trained in the pipeline & it isn’t like you can hire one off the street.
YOU ARE LYING-—AGAIN
Hearing this kind of BS from these vile, queer bassturds is really getting old.
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