Designer who won't make same-sex wedding websites loses case

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Designer who won’t make same-sex wedding websites loses case

By JAMES ANDERSON
July 27, 2021

DENVER (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, another twist in a series of court rulings nationwide about whether businesses denying services to LGBTQ people amounts to bias or freedom of speech.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Monday denied Lorie Smith’s attempt to overturn a lower court ruling throwing out her legal challenge.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents Smith, argued that the law forced her to violate her Christian beliefs.

In the 2-1 ruling, the panel said Colorado had a compelling interest in protecting the “dignity interests” of members of marginalized groups through its law.

The anti-discrimination law is the same one at issue in the case of Colorado baker Jack Phillips that was decided in 2018 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/religion-colorado-b3892f44fe98711fdbfe9390c8836eff

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[PortTack]

1. I hope the woman loses her business over the negative press