Hi, everybody. It's Borkharkin and the East. Consider yourselves warned. It is a top-sea

turvy, live news event kind of day, case in point, in a matter of about two minutes. We

expect to hear from President Joe Biden. He will address the nation live on a number

of topics, not the least of which, is the abrupt step back our country took today away from

fairness and progress toward intolerance and discrimination. In the name of our Freedom of

Speech, the conservative US Supreme Court this morning ruled 63 in favor of a Colorado web designer,

an evangelical named Lori Smith who refused to work on same-sex weddings. The court's

majority said this, but the first amendment protected her from punishment as part of Colorado's

anti-discrimination law. It is a turning point decision that will flip the state of equal protections

on its head. In the near term, it will allow business owners to likewise evade punishment under

similar laws in 29 states, or than half the union, that protect LGBTQ rights in public accommodations

in some form. In the longer term, it could again signal a threat to the landmark decision

of Bergerfeld versus Hodges, the 2015 case establishing the case of same-sex couples to marry.

Don't lose sight of Justice Clarence Thomas as far as that one's concerned. If you're wondering

have the same-sex couple at the center of this first case is doing, whether they're crushed after

being unceramoniously denied basic human decency, that's not necessary because they don't exist.

In court documents, state officials revealed they had no evidence, none, that anyone had ever

asked this website designer to create a website for a same-sex couple or wedding. The whole thing

was a hypothetical. In a movement that was about as grassroots as Astroturf, this particular web designer

was represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that routinely

argues religious rights cases, like the ongoing one having to do with the miscarriage pill

and abortion pill in the Supreme Court. Here's the president. Let's listen in to him.

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