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What Will 303 Creative Mean for Social Media Regulation?

If you can't force a web designer to serve a gay wedding, can you force a web platform to serve a politician?

Reason

The Colorado website designer's win is one of dozens of federal cases where religious beliefs and LGBTQ+ rights have clashed – and the pattern might not be what you think

Does a Colorado designer’s belief that marriage is between one man and one woman merit an exemption to state law barring discrimination against LGBTQ+ people? On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court decided 6-3 that the answer is yes: Requiring a conservative Christian business owner to create wedding websites for…

The Conversation

Designer in Supreme Court ruling cited client who denies making wedding site request

A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.

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A business can decline service based on its beliefs, Supreme Court rules – but what will this look like in practice?

At issue in one of this year’s most highly anticipated Supreme Court cases, 303 Creative v. Elenis, was what happens when someone’s free speech or beliefs conflict with others’ rights. Specifically, 303 Creative addressed whether a Colorado anti-discrimination law can require a designer who believes marriage is only between a…

The Conversation

Web designer in Supreme Court gay rights ruling cited client who denies making wedding site request

A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her

The Independent UK

Wider than websites? LGBTQ+ advocates fear broader discrimination after Supreme Court ruling

A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing a Colorado Christian graphic artist to refuse to work on wedding websites for same-sex couples has LGBTQ+ people across the country worried about broader consequences

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules Christian web designer can turn away business related to same-sex weddings

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Friday that conservative Christians have a free-speech right to refuse to provide some business services for same-sex marriages, even in states like California where civil rights laws forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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Colorado Can't Force a Graphic Designer To Create Same-Sex Wedding Websites, Supreme Court Rules

The decision reverses a terrible previous decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Reason

The ‘fake’ gay marriage case in the middle of the Supreme Court’s latest threat to LGBT+ rights

How did a straight, married man get in the middle of the high-stakes case?

The Independent UK

Read Justice Sotomayor's dissent in same-sex wedding website case

Justice Sonia Sotomayor read an impassioned dissent from the bench in a case where a majority of justices sided with a Colorado web designer who refused to create websites for same-sex weddings.

WEKU

Gas Taxes Increase July 4th Weekend in These States

Gas taxes are rising in several states as of July 1. Do you live in or plan to travel to one of them?

Kiplinger

S. Ct. Holds That Speech Creators (e.g., Web Designers) Can't Be Required to Create Content They Object to,

including when the requirement is imposed by antidiscrimination laws, for instance when such laws require web site designers who create opposite-sex wedding sites create same-sex wedding sites.

Reason

US top court deals blow to LGBTQ rights in web designer case

Supreme Court sides with business owner who refused to provide services for same-sex wedding, citing freedom of speech.

Al Jazeera

The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn’t want to make wedding websites for gay couples

The court ruled 6-3 for designer Lorie Smith despite a Colorado law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender and other characteristics.

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Ballotpedia

Voters in seven states have decided on 10 affirmative action ballot measures

Voters in seven states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Washington — have decided on 10 ballot measures related to affirmative action policies.

The Guardian - US

US supreme court strikes blow against LGBTQ+ rights with Colorado ruling

Web designer backed by Christian group argued making websites for same-sex couples would violate her first amendment rights

The Independent UK

Supreme Court allows Colorado designer to deny LGBT+ customers in ruling on last day of Pride Month

Supreme Court delievered final rulings of the term, opening door for artists to deny services to LGBT+ people

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn't want to make wedding websites for gay couples

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has ruled a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples

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Daily Mirror

Ian O'Brien missing: Last photos of man on mountain before he mysteriously disappeared

Ian O'Brien was an experienced hiker with "an extensive background in survival" vanished after trekking to the top of Colorado's Hesperus Mountain — a trail he'd hiked before

WEKU

Supreme Court says 1st Amendment entitles web designer to refuse same-sex wedding work

The court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."

Axios

Supreme Court rules businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers

The case concerns a Colorado web designer's right to refuse to create wedding websites for same-sex couples.

Roll Call

Supreme Court backs right to not make same-sex wedding websites - Roll Call

The Supreme Court sided Friday with the owner of a company who refuses to build websites for same-sex weddings because of religious beliefs.

The Guardian - US

Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court

Christian website designer says she received email request from same-sex couple but ‘author’ says he did not send it – and is not gay

Motor1

2024 Ford Explorer Spied In Platinum And ST Trims Without Camouflage

They're on the road in Dearborn, Michigan, and in Colorado.

The Independent UK

Newly unsealed records in Suzanne Morphew case reveal missing mum-of-two’s messages to lover

Suzanne Morphew, 49, disappeared from her remote home in Salida, Colorado, in 2020 amid plans to leave her husband

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