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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a Christian website designer’s appeal challenging a Colorado law that bars businesses from refusing to serve customers based on their sexual orientation.
The court said in a list of orders that it will hear arguments about whether “a law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.”
The graphic artist, Lorie Smith, says she wants to expand her business into creating wedding websites “promoting her understanding of marriage” and post a statement explaining why she will refuse to “promote messages contrary to her faith, such as messages that condone violence or promote sexual immorality, abortion, or same-sex marriage.”
But Smith cannot do so because the state law “considers it illegal,” according to her request for the Supreme Court to take up the case. Respondents say the statute, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, is constitutional.
Smith’s company, 303 Creative, “filed its complaint despite failing to identify any investigation into the Company’s conduct or any complaint filed against the Company,” the respondents said.
The law had been upheld by two lower courts. The justices are set to hear oral arguments and issue a ruling on the case in the court’s next term, which begins in October.
The high court’s decision to hear the case comes more than seven years after the landmark ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized gay marriage.
In 2018, the court ruled 7-2 in favor of a Colorado bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, which had declined to design a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The court said at the time that Colorado’s civil rights division showed “clear and impermissible hostility” toward the religious beliefs underpinning the baker’s decision.
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Supreme Court declines to decide whether religious flower shop owner can refuse same-sex weddings
Jul 2, 2021
a personal thought -
I understand those being discriminated against.
At the same time, depending how this plays out, a business owner may have no rights. The court system could be saying that as a business owner you have no choice and you must provide service to every customer. Despite your beliefs, the type of person they are, et cetera. Whether it's racial, religious, or political difference. For example, Ku Klux Klan members have to provide service to those that aren't white and heterosexual, and vice versa. Same with those that are more religious with those they don't agree (i.e. those they decide that are less moral), and also politics, such as those loyal to former president Trump must provide service to 'people who don't swear 100% fealty to the Dear Leader' - (R) MD Gov. Larry Hogan.
Seems we could loose our freedom of choice.
don't see field reason edited post: corrected URL for MD Gov Larry Hogan
https://governor.maryland.gov/2022/...-republican-party-on-cnns-state-of-the-union/
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a Christian website designer’s appeal challenging a Colorado law that bars businesses from refusing to serve customers based on their sexual orientation.
The court said in a list of orders that it will hear arguments about whether “a law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.”
The graphic artist, Lorie Smith, says she wants to expand her business into creating wedding websites “promoting her understanding of marriage” and post a statement explaining why she will refuse to “promote messages contrary to her faith, such as messages that condone violence or promote sexual immorality, abortion, or same-sex marriage.”
But Smith cannot do so because the state law “considers it illegal,” according to her request for the Supreme Court to take up the case. Respondents say the statute, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, is constitutional.
Smith’s company, 303 Creative, “filed its complaint despite failing to identify any investigation into the Company’s conduct or any complaint filed against the Company,” the respondents said.
The law had been upheld by two lower courts. The justices are set to hear oral arguments and issue a ruling on the case in the court’s next term, which begins in October.
The high court’s decision to hear the case comes more than seven years after the landmark ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized gay marriage.
In 2018, the court ruled 7-2 in favor of a Colorado bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, which had declined to design a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The court said at the time that Colorado’s civil rights division showed “clear and impermissible hostility” toward the religious beliefs underpinning the baker’s decision.
this thread is similar and refers to:
Supreme Court declines to decide whether religious flower shop owner can refuse same-sex weddings
Jul 2, 2021
a personal thought -
I understand those being discriminated against.
At the same time, depending how this plays out, a business owner may have no rights. The court system could be saying that as a business owner you have no choice and you must provide service to every customer. Despite your beliefs, the type of person they are, et cetera. Whether it's racial, religious, or political difference. For example, Ku Klux Klan members have to provide service to those that aren't white and heterosexual, and vice versa. Same with those that are more religious with those they don't agree (i.e. those they decide that are less moral), and also politics, such as those loyal to former president Trump must provide service to 'people who don't swear 100% fealty to the Dear Leader' - (R) MD Gov. Larry Hogan.
Seems we could loose our freedom of choice.
don't see field reason edited post: corrected URL for MD Gov Larry Hogan
https://governor.maryland.gov/2022/...-republican-party-on-cnns-state-of-the-union/
