The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a web designer can refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings on religious grounds. The case involved a Colorado web designer named Lorie Smith, who refused to create a website for a same-sex couple’s wedding. The couple filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, alleging that Smith’s refusal violated their civil rights.

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      It doesn’t really even have to be “religious”. Any so-called “strongly held belief” now lets people discriminate.

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      Yep, they seem to have forgotten that it wasn’t that long ago a strongly held religious belief that blacks were lesser beings and needed to be segregated from proper folk.

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      The last time the future looked bright for this country I was listening to the radio and heard about the new “grass roots” movement called the"tea party"