“She believes same-sex marriages to be false,” Ms. Waggoner said of her client. There were some points of agreement during the argument. Off-the-shelf products, even ones that express a message, must be sold to everyone, both sides agreed. Software that merely provided a template, Ms. Waggoner said, does not express […]
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Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, a website design company in Colorado, speaks Monday to reporters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, a website design company in Colorado, speaks Monday […]
Prof. McConnell is one of the top First Amendment law scholars in the country, and I was delighted that he passed along this item: Much of the commentary on today’s argument in 303 Creative starts from the premise that the case pits free speech (or maybe religious freedom) against LGBTQ […]
CNN — The Supreme Court will revisit the intersection of LGBTQ rights and religious liberty on Monday, when it takes up the case of a graphic designer who seeks to start a website business to celebrate weddings – but does not want to work with same-sex couples. The case comes […]
The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case on Monday, December 5, that could have broad implications for civil rights, and LGBTQ liberties in particular. In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, Colorado web designer Lorie Smith says she wants to expand her business to include wedding websites. While […]
From Lorie Smith’s perspective, it’s not who the potential wedding-website customers are, it’s the message they’re asking her to create that is problematic. Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, said she’s wanted to design wedding websites since she was a child, but because she is a Christian, she doesn’t feel […]
A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Denver, applied the most demanding form of judicial scrutiny to the law but upheld it. “Colorado has a compelling interest in protecting both the dignity interests of members of marginalized groups and their material interests […]
