Nearly three-quarters of Americans approve of gay marriage. Yet opposition to the practice, much of it on religious grounds, persists
a quarter of Americans supported same-sex marriage in 1996. By 2015, when the Supreme Court held inthat figure had jumped to 60%. Seven years after that landmark ruling, nearly three-quarters of Americans approve of gay marriage. Even with bipartisan legislation nearing passage in Congress, opposition to the practice, much of it on religious grounds, persists.
is short on facts. Ms Smith has not yet made a wedding website. She wants to enter the market and pin a statement on her website declaring she’ll design for straight weddings only—but says she fears Colorado will burden her with fines and other legal action. It was a hypothetical-filled hearing that ran twice as long as its allocated 70 minutes. Kristen Waggoner, the lawyer for Ms Smith, began by stating that her client “believes opposite-sex marriage honours scripture and same-sex marriage contradicts it”. But she was flat-footed in replying to tough queries from Justices Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor. Reflecting on her current clerks’ wedding websites , Justice Kagan pointed out how utilitarian such sites can be.
Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett swooped in to save Ms Waggoner with softball questions and their own answers to the hypotheticals. They and the other four conservative justices took up her duties when Mr Fletcher and Eric Olson, Colorado’s solicitor-general, rose for turns at the lectern. Mr Olson began by warning that a win for Ms Smith would constitute a “licence to discriminate” for professionals well beyond web designers.
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