The View Host Says She Agrees With SCOTUS Ruling For Antigay Designer

The View cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Donald Trump White House associate, raised some eyebrows on the Wednesday episode of the long-running morning talk show when she agreed with the Supreme Court's recent decision stating a Colorado web designer could refuse to make websites for LGBTQ+ clients.

“I actually agree with the Supreme Court decision, but let me explain,” she said. “I do not think it protects this woman’s right to discriminate. Basically, what it says is, because something like creating a website would be freedom of expression or speech, this would also — let’s flip it on its head — it would protect a gay web designer from having to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ website. They have the right based on their viewpoint to say, ‘I don’t want to do that.’”

Co-host and icon Whoopi Goldberg was not in agreement with her opinion.

“You don’t know somebody’s gay unless you ask them,” she said. “So if the web designer says, ‘Um, we’re booked up,’ they don’t have to deal with that other stuff this woman made this about.”

Griffin has been more vocal about her support for the queer community since leaving Trump’s White House in 2020, but she still thinks “the precedent here is very narrowly tailored on expression, so it’s saying if it’s something about your viewpoint you do have a right to refuse services.”

Fellow panelist Sunny Houston weighed in, reminding Griffin that was still discrimination, while Goldberg pressed the issue was about someone being able to simply say “I don’t want to do a gay person’s website” and get away with it.

The importance of this decision has not been lost on the communities it affects the most, as discrimination runs more prevalent among LGBTQ individuals, particularly with anti-trans and anti-drag bans spreading through more conservative states.

The View airs weekdays at 11am ET/PT on ABC.