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Welcome back to "state of the union." several new supreme court decisions will have far-reaching impacts on people in the united states, including a ruling that limits protections for lgbtq americans on free speech grounds. here with me now is transportation secretary, pete buttigieg. mr. secretary, thank you so much for joining me this morning. the supreme court ruled, as you know, that a christian web designer is not required to make websites celebrating same-sex weddings, due to her religious objections. justice neil gorsuch argued that if the court had ruled the other way, then, quote, gov...

Required to celebrate due to her religious exceptions. if the court had ruled the other way, then, quote, governments could force an unwilling muslim movie director to make a film with a zionist message, they can compel an atheist muralist, and they can require a gay website designer to create websites for a group advocating against same-sex marriage. is there any merit to that argument? >> no, there isn't, and i think it's very revealing that there's no evidence that this web designer was ever even approached by anyone asking for a website for a same-sex wedding. it appears this web designer ...

General approval of such programs. >> tonight, the supreme court has spoken. and affirmative action is here to stay, at least for now. at least in some form. the >> court is ruled by 5 to 4 vote that diversity justifies the raising of admissions. >> the court said colleges and universities can continue to use in their admissions. >> a big boost given to college admissions, upholding the program at the university of texas of austin, formative action makes classes more diverse, and educational plus. >> i guess that doesn't matter anymore. what about the other facts. shouldn't they -- when it com...

Same-sex ways of being. why is that same logic rather not applied with thinking about gun manufacturers? selling a gun to a shooter's participating in murder. so i don't know why we're allowing these examples to allow people to use religion to legislate hate? or otherwise discriminate. >> i want to read some of justice sotomayor's dissent, she knows the logic of the ruling that by the logic that website designer could equally refused to create a wedding website for an interracial combo, for example. how quickly we forget that opposition to interracial marriage was often because, almighty god d...

In fact, now we know the individual she's referring to is having approached her is not guy, is married. again, had not asked, or even if he weren't those other things, had not asked her to design a website for him, because he's a website designer. this case reeks of the thing that should be concerning to all of us, and that is the consequences of the case, of the supreme court taking hypothetical cases, and drawn constitutional law from it. what's your take? >> first of all, hats off to melissa formation reporting. this shoe level reporting is exactly what we need more of. really, it's an amaz...