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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlt Right Attemps To Create Outrage At Today's Ruling, Fails To Do Any Actual Research
Conservative media pundits tried and miserably failed to generate a cycle of outrage against mainstream media outlets that accurately reported this morning on the Supreme Courts narrow ruling in a case concerning a Colorado cake maker who refused to provide service to a same-sex couple.
This morning, the Supreme Court released its ruling in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, siding 7-2 with the Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple. The case had become a rallying call for Religious Right organizations that hoped the Supreme Court ruling would set a precedent to allow business owners to discriminate against LGBTQ people on religious grounds. Instead, the Court issued a narrow decision focused on the specifics of this particular case and punted the larger constitutional questions surrounding religious liberty and free expression.
Media outlets accurately reported the narrow decision in headlines about the ruling, but some right-wing media figures desperate to expose supposed liberal bias at national news outlets conflated the narrow ruling with the vote tally. These self-described defenders of truth did not bother with the smallest amount of legal research, deciding instead to disingenuously attack of the media for accurately reporting on the ruling as part of their ongoing effort to undermine the mainstream media.
Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft dedicated an entire article to exposing his lack of basic legal knowledge.
Donald Trump Jr., an adult son of the president and his fathers liaison to the fringe, said that the 7-2 ruling on the Supreme Court was not narrow:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-dumbest-right-wing-pundits-think-media-are-lying-about-a-narrow-supreme-court-decision/
This morning, the Supreme Court released its ruling in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, siding 7-2 with the Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple. The case had become a rallying call for Religious Right organizations that hoped the Supreme Court ruling would set a precedent to allow business owners to discriminate against LGBTQ people on religious grounds. Instead, the Court issued a narrow decision focused on the specifics of this particular case and punted the larger constitutional questions surrounding religious liberty and free expression.
Media outlets accurately reported the narrow decision in headlines about the ruling, but some right-wing media figures desperate to expose supposed liberal bias at national news outlets conflated the narrow ruling with the vote tally. These self-described defenders of truth did not bother with the smallest amount of legal research, deciding instead to disingenuously attack of the media for accurately reporting on the ruling as part of their ongoing effort to undermine the mainstream media.
Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft dedicated an entire article to exposing his lack of basic legal knowledge.
Donald Trump Jr., an adult son of the president and his fathers liaison to the fringe, said that the 7-2 ruling on the Supreme Court was not narrow:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-dumbest-right-wing-pundits-think-media-are-lying-about-a-narrow-supreme-court-decision/
Of course! Why bother to do any actual research when you can just get mad?
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Alt Right Attemps To Create Outrage At Today's Ruling, Fails To Do Any Actual Research (Original Post)
Initech
Jun 2018
OP
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)1. Jake Tapper
said SCOTUS ruled overwhelmingly on the side of the baker. He's a tool.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)2. Did it settle anything or just kick the can down the road?
That leaves all the fundamental questions unanswered. As Ian Millhiser put it, The opinion reads as if the central matter at issue was not so much about resolving a conflict between religious bakers and same-sex couples as it was about an urgent need to police the tone of civil rights commissioners. Because the court didnt rule on the fundamental issues, we can be sure that more lawsuits will be filed in which Christian business owners want an exemption from anti-discrimination laws. And they have reason to believe they might get it.