The Supreme Court is on a roll. Six Conservative judges are stealing our rights.
Their latest blow to equality is giving certain businesses the right to refuse service to gay people. This socially dangerous act ticks like a bomb that could explode across the country causing widespread prejudice.
The high court ruled that a wedding caterer, Lorie Smith of Colorado, can refuse services to LGBTQ people, just because they’re LGBTQ people.
It is the depth of discrimination.
Christians believe gays are sinners and now, empowered by the Supreme Court, they can act on their ignorant belief. This validates the wrong idea that gays are so somehow bad.
The court does not understand the basic premise of law and that is, laws cannot punish people for what they are, but for what they do, and gays have done nothing to deserve such rude treatment.
It is a step backwards, separating our country even further.
Making discrimination legal shows that the Rightwing 6 on the court are ripping apart the Constitution, page by page.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomeyer stated flatly, “The Constitution contains no right to discriminate. This is the first time in history that the court granted the right to refuse to serve minorities.”
They are doing it systematically. First Roe vs. Wade, then Affirmative Action, and now they’re demonizing another minority. They’re on a dangerous roll.
This unruly ruling could cause more people to be shunned.
Dean Miller, a writer on the CNN website, states that, “There’s a larger range of businesses that will discriminate against other minorities besides gay people. It will impact an array of customers beyond LGBTQ people.”
What customers will now be turned away? With this out of control court there’s no telling who’s next. If gays can be excluded, anyone Christians don’t happen to like can be turned away. Prejudice could go on and on.
It’s a slippery slope and this shows that our rights are sliding away.
This ruling says that businesses can refuse to serve minorities. Sound familiar? What’s next, diners? buses? voting booths?
Someone should tap these judges on the shoulder and tell them this 2023 and not 1953.
Dennis Gregory writes a bi-monthly column for West Hawaii Today and welcomes your comments at makewavess@yahoo.com