Sotomayor Asks If Same-Sex Wedding Website Ban Might Affect Interracial Unions

  • Liberal justices say web designer case would allow bias
  • Supreme Court considers case pitting gay rights, free speech

Sonia Sotomayor

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US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor pressed a lawyer for a wedding website designer Monday about where to draw the line if she has a First Amendment right not to serve same-sex couples.

“How about people who don’t believe in interracial marriage or people who don’t believe disabled people should be married?” Sotomayor asked the designer’s attorney during oral arguments Monday.