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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-same-sex-couples_n_6481d91de4b025003edbde97#
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple

The Supreme Court on Friday greatly expanded the rights of people who want to discriminate against same-sex couples in a case involving an amateur website designer who was never even asked to make a website for a same-sex wedding.

In 303 Creative v. Elenis, amateur web designer Lori Smith asked the court to grant her the right under the First Amendment to refuse service to gay and lesbian couples due to her Christian religious beliefs. But Smith’s request was wholly speculative. She had not been hired to make a website for a same-sex couple and, therefore, had never refused such work. In fact, she’s never made a single wedding website.

Despite the underlying claim being totally made up, the court sided with Smith’s religious liberty argument. In a 6-3 vote, the court’s conservatives ruled that a civil rights law in Colorado that bars anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination violated Smith’s First Amendment speech rights. In doing so, they made it much easier for businesses to discriminate. A new wave of litigation further expanding discrimination is likely to follow.
Smith had claimed that Colorado’s anti-discrimination act, which prohibits denial of goods, services or facilities “because of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, or ancestry,” violated her First Amendment rights by requiring her to take commissions with what she said was a message she did not agree with — specifically, websites celebrating the weddings of same-sex couples.

https://news.yahoo.com/praying-for-armageddon-fundamentalist-evangelicals-153858689.html
'Praying for Armageddon' exposes the power, influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals

Following the release of the powerful film on artificial intelligence, iHuman, filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei's new political thriller, Praying for Armageddon, exposes the influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and democracy, with the aim to fulfill the biblical Armageddon prophecy.

“For me, the issue of the power of the U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals is maybe one of the most important issues of today,” Schei told Yahoo Canada.

“Seeing the immense power they have from the grassroots, through megachurch empires, all the way up to the political system in Washington, D. C., is just very concerning to me, especially as they're threatening democracy and also influencing U. S. foreign policy.”

In Praying for Armageddon, Schei and co-director Michael Rowley are largely guided by journalist Lee Fang, reporter with The Intercept, working to investigate evangelical power and how the direct influence on U. S. foreign policy, specifically the country's relationship to Israel.

“In the tradition of Christianity, there is no single view of the end times," former evangelical preacher, Frank Schaeffer, explains in the documentary. "But the American evangelical community has latched on to one."

"Generally, they believe that believers on earth will be rapture to heaven before things get really bad. And that’s the promise to the evangelical, that they will not taste death if Jesus comes back and the rapture occurs in their lifetime.”

From American preachers, like Gary Burd with the Mission M25 biker ministry, to chronicling the function of the Organizations like Christians Unite For Israel (CUFI), led by John Hagee, Praying for Armageddon is clearly sounding the alarm on the dangers of this influential group.