Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that the Supreme Court's decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis paved the way for further discrimination in "the culture wars that are being fired up."

Last week, the Supreme Court sided with Colorado-based website 303 Creative, which refused to build wedding announcement websites for same-sex couples, and held that the state's anti-discrimination law would affect her business and violate her First Amendment rights. Buttigieg alleged that the designer, Lori Smith, was never solicited by a same-sex couple.

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"I think what’s really revealing is that there’s no evidence that this web designer was ever even approached by a same-sex couple looking for services to support their wedding," Buttigieg said. "You’re seeing more of these cases and circumstances that are designed to get people spun up and designed to chip away at rights."

Buttigieg disagreed with Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) analogy that this case was the equivalent of a Muslim designer asked to depict the prophet Muhammad in an online image or Jewish designers asked to make an anti-semitic website.

"You know, that’s really not a comparison that is relevant to this case, but more importantly, I think it’s really telling that you have to think of these far-fetched hypotheticals in order to justify decisions that are actually going to have much worse impacts in the real world," Buttigieg said. "I think this again goes back to the broader agenda of the culture wars that are being fired up."

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Meanwhile, 303 Creative owner Lorie Smith said the ruling was "a victory for each and every one of us" and expressed she was "grateful for the court for affirming the government can’t force anyone to say something they don’t believe."

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 in Smith's favor. Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.