The New Civil Rights Movement Article Rating'Sweeping New Right to Discriminate': Legal Experts Warn on Latest Anti-LGBTQ SCOTUS Case That's 'Unlikely to Go Well'
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Smith is not a small business person but an artist, being compelled, which implies they see the case as an issue of free speech and freedom of expression:The Supreme Court said it would take up the case to consider 'whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.'Spoiler alert, warns Vox's Ian Millhiser." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "She could just set up shop and decide what to do if she is approached by a same-sex couple." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Noting that the Supreme Court ducked this question in Masterpiece Cakeshop, but will now address it with a 6-3 conservative supermajority, Slate's Mark Joseph Stern writes that it is very likely that the court will cut back LGBTQ non-discrimination laws' application to artists, especially in the context of same-sex weddings." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Lorie Smith has not expanded her business and has not been approached by any same-sex couples to produce a wedding website for them." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "He says the case reaches far beyond LGBTQ non-discrimination laws, threatening ALL civil rights laws that, as SCOTUS put it, 'compel an artist to speak or stay silent.'" | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Smith wants to post a statement saying she will not work with same-sex couples, but that would violate Colorado's non-discrimination law." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "NBC News' Pete Williams reports that a federal appeals court ruled that her refusal and her proposed statement would violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
53% : Smith is not a small business person but "an artist," being "compelled," which implies they see the case as an issue of free speech and freedom of expression:The "Supreme Court said it would take up the case to consider 'whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.'""Spoiler alert," warns Vox's Ian Millhiser.50% : She could just set up shop and decide what to do if she is approached by a same-sex couple.
46% : Noting that the "Supreme Court ducked this question in Masterpiece Cakeshop, but will now address it with a 6-3 conservative supermajority," Slate's Mark Joseph Stern writes that it "is very likely that the court will cut back LGBTQ non-discrimination laws' application to artists, especially in the context of same-sex weddings."
43% : Lorie Smith has not expanded her business and has not been approached by any same-sex couples to produce a wedding website for them.
38% : He says the case "reaches far beyond LGBTQ non-discrimination laws, threatening ALL civil rights laws that, as SCOTUS put it, 'compel an artist to speak or stay silent.'
34% : Smith wants to post a statement saying she will not work with same-sex couples, but that would violate Colorado's non-discrimination law.
34% : NBC News' Pete Williams reports that "a federal appeals court ruled that her refusal and her proposed statement would violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law."
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.