{"id":1962892,"date":"2023-07-02T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-attacks-christian-in-scotus-case-only-went-into-business-to-provoke-a-case-like-this\/"},"modified":"2023-07-02T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T22:27:52","slug":"buttigieg-attacks-christian-in-scotus-case-only-went-into-business-to-provoke-a-case-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-attacks-christian-in-scotus-case-only-went-into-business-to-provoke-a-case-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg criticizes Christian in SCOTUS case: Purposefully sought to create controversy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbuttigieg-attacks-christian-in-scotus-case-only-went-into-business-to-provoke-a-case-like-this%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1962892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Criticizes Supreme Court Ruling on Christian Web Designer<\/h2>\n<p>During an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with host Dana Bash, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg expressed his disagreement with the recent Supreme Court decision in the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-476_c185.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>303 Creative LLC v. Elenis<\/em><\/a>. The Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Lorie Smith, a Christian web designer, stating that she cannot be compelled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-seek-to-resuscitate-1972-equal-rights-amendment\/\" title=\"Activists Seek to Resuscitate 1972 Equal Rights Amendment\">state civil rights law<\/a> to create websites that go against her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-attacks-christian-in-scotus-case-only-went-into-business-to-provoke-a-case-like-this\/\" title=\"Buttigieg criticizes Christian in SCOTUS case: Purposefully sought to create controversy.\">deeply-held religious beliefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg, who lacks a legal background, dismissed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/editor-daily-rundown-unprecedented-supreme-court-leak-signals-end-of-roe-v-wade\/\" title=\"Editor Daily Rundown: Unprecedented Supreme Court Leak Signals End Of Roe V. Wade\">majority opinion written<\/a> by Justice Neil Gorsuch, claiming that it lacked merit. He went on to suggest that there was no evidence of anyone actually requesting a same<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-web-designer-loses-same-sex-wedding-website-case\/\" title=\"Colorado Web Designer Loses Same-Sex Wedding Website Case\">-sex wedding website<\/a> from Smith, insinuating that she had entered the wedding business solely to provoke a legal case.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Buttigieg drew a parallel between this Supreme Court ruling and similar actions taking place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-exclusive-analysis-of-election-night-data-from-all-states-shows-millions-of-votes-either-switched-from-president-trump-to-biden-or-were-lost-using-dominion-and-other-systems\/\" title=\"BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of Election Night Data from All States Shows MILLIONS OF VOTES Either Switched from President Trump to Biden or Were Lost -- Using Dominion and Other Systems\">state legislatures<\/a> across the country. He argued that these cases were attempts to undermine the recent progress made in LGBTQ+ rights and equality.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the video:<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When asked for his thoughts on SCOTUS decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, Pete Buttigieg claims without evidence that Lorie Smith &#8220;only went into the wedding business for the purpose of provoking a case like this.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ln6KTqsfbe\">pic.twitter.com\/Ln6KTqsfbe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinTober94\/status\/1675548280892129280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized the Christian web designer supported by the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling against a Colorado law. The Court, in a 6-3 decision (303 Creative LLC v. Elenis), invoked the First Amendment to strike down the law that would have compelled her to create a website for a same-sex wedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1962893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}