Posted on 02/24/2022 7:26:34 PM PST by marshmallow
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear the case of a Colorado web designer who fears prosecution under state anti-discrimination law for stating her faith-based objections to providing services that promote same-sex marriage.
The court agreed Feb. 22 to consider “Whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.”
It will not take up the question of whether Colorado's anti-discrimination law violates the designer's free exercise of religion. The case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, will be heard during the court's next term, which begins in October.
“I love creating custom websites and graphics and working with individuals and small businesses to help them solve their challenges, promote their events, and market their products and services. Like any commissioned artist and speaker, I love using my talents to shape messages for my clients—provided those messages don’t violate my values,” Lorie Smith, the owner of design studio 303 Creative, told reporters Feb. 22.
“I have clients ranging from individuals to small business owners to non-profit agencies. I have served and continue to serve all people, including those who identify as LGBT. But like all artists, there are some messages that I can’t pour my heart, imagination, and talents into creating because they violate my core convictions.”
Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act includes sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.
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Colorado bakeries shoukd take every customer but for special orders have them sign a release form that cake decoration is an artistic expression totally governed by the spirit of the artist and the 1st Amendment. Make the perverts put down nonrefundable deposit and give them a cake designed however the hell you want.
Im trying to wrap my head around the SC decision to be made;
Are people being denied service because of prejudice against gays in this case,
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Are people being enslaved to do something/business against their beliefs and will????
You shall make sacrifices to the Roman gods. Or else.
Have two gay guys ever went into a Muslim bakery in Dearborn, Michigan, flaunted their homosexuality, been denied and then went after the bakers?
I object to much of what SCOTUS has been hatching of late.
The problem is that if I designed a cake with very graphic, pornographic decorations to expire my displeasure, they would celebrate the cake.
There are literally tens of thousands of web designers out there. This is about the gay mafia punishing people who won’t celebrate their perversion.
Design a bad website.
We used to have merchants enforce ‘no shirt, no service’ rules and no one took them to court. How did government allow the customer to have the ability to bully the shop owner?
...the state can force Lorie Smith of studio 303 Creative to design and publish websites...What happened to Article I Section 8?
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;As a "designer" and "publisher," doesn't she have a Constitutional "exclusive" right to her "writings" of the code for her websites?Doesn't she have her 1st amendment right to a free press? In 1789, the "press" referred to the machine, the printing press. The right of the people to a free press was the right to publish.
Doesn't her right to a free press allow her to choose what she wishes to publish or not publish?
The first amendment right to free speech and right to publish is an individual right, not the state's right or federal government's right.
An individual person cannot be compelled to publish any kind of speech against their free will. The code behind a website is a copyrighted "writing" protected by Article I Section 8 and the First Amendment.
-PJ
It is enslavement and a violation of freedom of assembly.
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