In a 6-3 partisan decision the Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a bigoted web designer who refused to create a wedding website for a non-existent gay couple, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports.
In her dissent, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote “By issuing this new license to discriminate in a case brought by a company that seeks to deny same-sex couples the full and equal enjoyment of its 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. The opinion of the Court is, quite literally, a notice that reads: ‘Some services may be denied to same-sex couples.'”