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Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Law Forces Artists To Echo the State's Message

A website designer asks SCOTUS to let her eschew work that contradicts her opposition to gay marriage.

Reason

Supreme Court appears to side with wedding web designer opposed to same-sex marriage

6-3 conservative supermajority appear sympathetic to Colorado Christian web designer Lorie Smith

The Independent UK

Do we all get to do that?

Supreme Court ruling might open door to businesses closing doors on certain customers.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Religion, LGBTQ rights collide in Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is sounding sympathetic to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alito "jokes" of Black kids in KKK hoods

Alito later joked about Ashley Madison, a dating site that helps people have affairs

Salon

The US supreme court is poised to strike another blow against gay rights

The court is hearing a case that could allow the kind of naked discrimination that the gay rights and civil rights movements fought so hard to end

The Guardian - US

Justice Samuel Alito under fire for KKK joke during Supreme Court oral arguments: ‘You can’t make this up’

Observers called his comments ‘really upsetting’

The Independent UK

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Supreme Court signals sympathy with web designer opposed to same-sex marriage in free speech case

In front of the Supreme Court justices on Dec. 5, 2022 was 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – a major case regarding LGBTQ rights and free speech.

The Conversation

Supreme Court leans in favor of a Christian website designer’s right to turn away gay weddings

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday sounded ready to rule that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to work with same-sex couples planning to marry.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court Debates Whether Web Designers Can Be Forced To Make Gay Wedding Pages

A million hypotheticals bloom in arguments over when and where the government may compel speech.

Reason

Supreme Court leans in favor of a Christian website designer’s right to turn away gay weddings

Los Angeles Times

US Supreme Court hears arguments challenging LGBTQ rights law

A Colorado website designer has requested exemption from a state law that could compel her to serve same-sex marriages.

Al Jazeera

Supreme Court hears arguments in same-sex wedding website clash - Roll Call

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case that could broaden free speech exemptions to anti-discrimination laws nationwide.

Roll Call

Supreme Court to decide if a Christian business owner can turn away gay weddings

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about whether a conservative Christian business owner has a 1st Amendment right to refuse to work with same-sex couples planning to marry.

Los Angeles Times

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Commentary: Does the First Amendment protect a right to discriminate?

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to open the door widely to businesses being allowed to violate anti-discrimination laws. If the court rules that the First Amendment protects the right of business owners to discriminate — based on claims of freedom of…

The Independent UK

Supreme Court taking up clash of religion and gay rights

The Supreme Court is hearing the case of a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, that’s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court

Reason

A First Amendment for Everyone

What the Supreme Court should do in 303 Creative v. Elenis, Monday's case involving a graphic designer who does not want to create same-sex wedding websites.

Tribune News Service

Same-sex marriage returns to Supreme Court in web designer’s free speech bid

A Colorado website designer who opposes same-sex marriage is the newest face of a religious-rights movement that has been taking full advantage of the Supreme Court’s conservative super-majority.

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The Independent UK

Both sides see high stakes in gay rights Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples

The Independent UK

Designer ready for high court fight on excluding gay couples

Colorado will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court against a Christian web designer who does not want to create custom wedding websites for same-sex couples

The Independent UK

Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake

The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a wedding cake for a gay couple a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling that he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law — this time over complaints he refused to make a birthday…

The Conversation

Supreme Court to revisit LGBTQ rights – this time with a wedding website designer, not a baker

A simmering, difficult, and timely question returns to the Supreme Court this fall: What happens when freedom of speech and civil rights collide?

Reason

ACLU Abandons First Amendment in Colorado Gay Wedding Web-Hosting Case

How do you justify government speech mandates? Apparently, you deliberately pretend that businesses have no right to control the messages they choose to present.

Tribune News Service

Harvard affirmative action, gay rights cases are next up at Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court reshaped the legal landscape in dramatic ways in the past few months, and it may just be getting started.

Reason

Gay Weddings Return to The Supreme Court

Can a web designer be compelled under the First Amendment to host wedding pictures?

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