The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded Monday ready to rule that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to work with same-sex couples planning to marry. Read the latest at
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded Monday ready to rule that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to work with same-sex couples planning to marry.
In the case before the court, Lorie Smith, a website designer, said she would not work with same-sex couples because her Christian faith opposes such marriages. Kavanaugh suggested that only a small number of businesses could qualify for such an exemption. He said tailors, jewelers or caterers are probably not covered because their work is not purely expressive.
Twenty-two states including California require businesses open to the public to provide full and equal service to all, without regard to race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Smith says she would like to expand her business designing websites to include weddings, but only if she can be assured she need not work with a same-sex couple. She sued seeking such a right and lost before a federal judge and the 10th Circuit Court in Denver.and decide whether it violates the free-speech clause of the 1st Amendment to “compel an artist to speak or stay silent.”
Lawyers for Colorado and the Justice Department disputed that claim. They said a refusal to work with same-sex couples planning a wedding is discrimination based on sexual orientation and does not involve speech.
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