You still aren’t allowed to blanket discriminate against LGBTQ or any other protected class. You are allowed to refuse to express certain messages, even if the customer is in a protected class.
For example, suppose you are from Kosovo and a Serbian asks you to make a website that says “Kosovo is forever part of Serbia”. If you refuse, according to this ruling you cannot be punished for violating the civil rights of Serbians. However, you still aren’t allowed to hang a “No Serbians” sign on the door to your business.
You’re correct, I just think there’s a difference between creating a website for someone else that expresses a message and expressing the message yourself. I would hope the economic consequences of drawing such weird delineations hurt the web designers who decide to pick and choose like this, it’s an odd hill to die on.
You still aren’t allowed to blanket discriminate against LGBTQ or any other protected class. You are allowed to refuse to express certain messages, even if the customer is in a protected class.
For example, suppose you are from Kosovo and a Serbian asks you to make a website that says “Kosovo is forever part of Serbia”. If you refuse, according to this ruling you cannot be punished for violating the civil rights of Serbians. However, you still aren’t allowed to hang a “No Serbians” sign on the door to your business.
You’re correct, I just think there’s a difference between creating a website for someone else that expresses a message and expressing the message yourself. I would hope the economic consequences of drawing such weird delineations hurt the web designers who decide to pick and choose like this, it’s an odd hill to die on.