How Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ wedding website impacts Tennesseans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Opinion: Supreme Court 303 Creative decision distorts religious freedom.
56% : " "The First Amendment protects an individual's right to speak his mind regardless of whether the governmentconsiders his speech sensible and well intentioned or deeply 'misguided,' and likely to cause 'anguish' or 'incalculable grief,'" he added.
56% : The Nashville-based Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention and an organization highly active in cases like 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, praised the court's ruling as yet another victory for religious liberty.
50% : Justice Neil Gorsuch penned the decision, saying that because Smith provides design services that are "expressive" and are of her own "original, customized" creations, the product is protected under the First Amendment -- therefore blocking the anti-discrimination laws from compelling her to create products that don't align with her religious beliefs.
49% : While Tennessee does not recognize sexual orientation or gender identity under its own accommodation laws like Colorado, the decision has drawn fervent support from state religious liberty advocates, as well as concern from local LGBTQ communities.
48% : "The wedding websites Ms. Smith seeks to create qualify as pure speech protected by the First Amendment under this Court's precedents," Gorsuch wrote.
48% : And so on." Sotomayor stated that the court was "asking the wrong questions" in the case, because "the law in question targets conduct -- not speech -- for regulation, and the act of discrimination has never constituted protected expression under the First Amendment.
48% : In states like Tennessee, where many top lawmakers and officials are conservative Christians who champion the cause of religious liberty, the ERLC's advocacy is more collaborative compared to states like Colorado.
45% : "Tennessee's Human Rights Act does not include sexual orientation and gender identity," he said.
43% : The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of a Colorado website designer and upheld that expressive speech was not subject to anti-discrimination laws -- allowing some businesses to restrict services to the public based on religious beliefs.
35% : Instead, the Supreme Court decision describes her worry that she might be forced by Colorado anti-discrimination laws to design a website for an LGBTQ couple, whose marriage she called "false" and said "violates God's will."

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