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Is she right?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/social_issues/most_uphold_baker_s_right_to_refuse_gay_wedding_cake

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/06/will-supreme-court-allow-businesses-discriminate-lgbt-people/

“The Supreme Court can significantly undermine LGBT rights even without reversing a single case. Right now, the federal prohibition against sex discrimination doesn’t bar discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; the Equal Protection Clause affords no specific protections for LGBT people, as it does for members of groups defined by race or nationality. The Court can strip the rights to intimacy and marriage of their meaning, carving away gradually and masking the magnitude of changes by phrasing them in arcane legal terms,” she writes.

A movement has been afoot in state legislatures across the country for some time now to disenfranchise LGBTQ Americans. These bills are called “Religious Freedom Restoration Acts” (RFRA) and are a backlash to the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage and the growing fears of the religious right after the Supreme Court legalized it nationwide. Lawmakers use them to codify LGBTQ discrimination and justify denying us services.

Colorado state law prohibits public accommodations, like Masterpiece Cakeshop, from refusing service based on race, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

“No one should ever have to walk into a store and wonder if they will be turned away just because of who they are,” Mullins told ACLU Colorado.