Case centers on U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment Colorado says plaintiff is seeking license to discriminate Court, with 6-3 conservative majority, due to rule by June WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday appeared ready to rule that a Christian web designer has a right […]
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“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 […]
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 […]
“A gay couple walks in and says, I’d like the standard website, everything standard, but I want something in addition to that, I want the homepage, the website, to say ‘God blesses this union,’ and Ms. Smith says this is a problem,” Kagan said. “I don’t know, I think that […]
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 […]
Supreme Court to hear arguments on Monday, rule by June Case pits LGBT rights against free speech protections WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) – The wedding websites that Colorado-based web designer Lorie Smith would like to create for clients might offer ceremony details, pictures, a story about the couple and a […]
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 […]