Web Designer to Appeal 10th Circuit's Ruling Forcing Her to Create Objectionable Websites

Newsweek ^ | 27 Jul 2021 | Carly Mayberry

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AColorado web designer is appealing a ruling made Monday by the 10th Circuit Court that rejected her challenge of Colorado's anti-discrimination law and requires her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples despite it violating her religious beliefs.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled 2 – 1 the state can force Lorie Smith of studio 303 Creative to design and publish websites promoting messages that go against her personal religious beliefs. The law at issue also prevents Smith from explaining on her company's website what sites she can create that are consistent with her beliefs.

By making the decision, the three-judge panel overturned a lower court ruling throwing out ...

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"you know, we need a concerted effort where gay business owners are contacted and demand is made for a religious painting or cake or whatever. Then sue when they decline. Two can play this game, and so far, only one side is playing while the other thinks they're sitting ducks."

The courts do not play that way, for unlike being born again and thus having a orientation toward Godliness, homosexuality is treated as racial or ethnicity, and thus while they can refuse to be complicit in the creation of a work for the expressed purpose of celebrating something related to Biblical morality, Christians cannot refuse to be complicit in the creation of a work for the expressed purpose of celebrating something contrary to the law of God, even if it is illegal, as was in the Masterpiece case. For the work is related to what the customers were, and thus is treated as if it were a refusal to create a cake for an interracial marriage. That is what happens when Biblical morality is rejected.