Season 3, Episode 29 (Show 133): The Rights of Bigots

July 12, 2023

When a website designer claims the right to turn away a gay couple who requests a wedding website, Colorado takes umbrage, the Supreme Court weights in, and we analyze.

A Colorado website designer refuses to create sites for gay couples’ weddings, going afoul of Colorado’s public accommodations law.  Can she be compelled to author such a site?  The Court has ruled, and we have the analysis.  Along the way, we find ourselves discussing the intricacies of stipulations, and getting into the fine points of how one gets to federal court, even as we consider more mainstream questions as speech vs. conduct, the limits of rights, and some interesting hypotheticals.  Professor Amar, as usual, has his own take on such things.