Marcia Coyle:
OK.
This was really interesting. You have two very different views of what public accommodation laws, which are really anti-discrimination laws in the marketplace of public goods and services, what they do.
Justice Gorsuch, who wrote the majority opinion, looked at these laws and said, at least in the Web designer's case, that it was compelling her to speak against her religious beliefs and that the First Amendment free speech guarantees trumped public accommodation laws.
Justice Sotomayor, who wrote the dissent said, no, no, no, now wait a minute. Public accommodation laws have always been viewpoint-neutral, and that's how they are operating here. They're not compelling any speech. They're compelling — they're saying, you just can't act in a certain way to discriminate against protected categories of people.
And the law does say who is protected here. And so you had just really a very different view of these laws.
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