The U.S. Supreme Court is not ruling on a Mississippi law that allows people to deny services to gay and lesbian people on religious grounds. The law was a response to the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the country. Under the Mississippi law, county clerks and state employees can cite religious grounds to refuse to issue marriage licenses and businesses can do the same to refuse service to customers.
LGBT activists claim such a law's only purpose is to discriminate against gay and other marginalized people and groups.
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