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Contents:

• U.S. SUPREME COURT REBUFFS APPEAL BY FLORIST WHO SPURNED GAY UPLE
• GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• GAY UPLE CED BY CHRISTIAN WEB SIGNER WHO WON SUPREME COURT SE MAY NOT EXIST
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
• IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
• SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS

U.S. SUPREME COURT REBUFFS APPEAL BY FLORIST WHO SPURNED GAY UPLE

Supreme Court on Friday cled to hear an appeal by a florist fed by Washgton state for refg to make a flower arrangement for a same-sex weddg due to her Christian beliefs, sisteppg another major se ptg gay rights agast relig lg 2018 favor of a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for two men for relig reasons, the jtic turned away an appeal by Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers the cy of Richland, after a lower urt upheld Washgton's actn. Stutzman refed service to gay uple Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed of the urt's six nservative jtic - Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alo and Neil Gorsuch - said they would have heard the appeal had been on hold while the Supreme Court nsired a separate relig rights se volvg a Catholic Church-affiliated agency that sued after the cy of Philalphia refed to place children for foster re wh the anizatn bee barred same-sex upl om applyg to be foster parents. It backed gay rights a seri of landmark lgs culmatg the 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi.

GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL

"The adjuditory bodi that nsired this se did not act wh relig anim when they led that the florist and her rporatn vlated the Washgton Law Agast Discrimatn by clg to sell weddg flowers to a gay uple, and they did not act wh relig anim when they led that such discrimatn is not privileged or exced by the Uned Stat Constutn or the Washgton Constutn, " the urt wrote. The gay uple at the center of a lawsu agast a nservative Christian baker who refed to sell them a weddg ke slammed the U.

Elenis, provid clary at the expense of gay rights as the nservative urt ma easier for bs to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people. Like the Masterpiece se, the 303 Creative lawsu also grew out of a relig bs owner’s refal to serve a gay uple. The gay uple was imagary.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

In a searg dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the cisn opened up a sea of disturbg possibili, givg the example of a nservative photographer who might refe to photograph an terracial uple or a funeral home that would refe to handle the body of a gay man.

“It was always about standg up to homophobia. However, acrdg to a Thursday story the New Republic, the only quiry Smh has ever received about potentially creatg a weddg webse for a gay uple apparently me om a man who says he never sent Smh (at left), a Christian graphic signer, prepar to speak to supporters outsi the Supreme Court on Dec. ”In a Zoom prs nference followg the lg, Smh’s lawyer Kristen Waggoner said the New Republic report “was absolutely unte” and “irrelevant to the se, ” but said they did not verify if the requt was om an actual gay uple or a “troll.

GAY UPLE CED BY CHRISTIAN WEB SIGNER WHO WON SUPREME COURT SE MAY NOT EXIST

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Unfortunately for Smh, to refe service to members of the public bee they are gay is illegal: Colorado bans bs, shops and other plac of public acmodatn om discrimatg on the basis of sexual orientatn.

If turns out that 303 Creative do not have a ee speech right to refe service to same-sex upl, publishg a statement on s webse that will not provi weddg servic to gay and lbian upl uld be characterized as discrimatory nduct that triggers no ee speech the same time, nduct may exprs a msage and therefore unt as nstutnally protected “speech. In this se, the pellg need is obv: to end discrimatn agast gay and lbian upl public spac. If the urt fds for 303 Creative, this right to discrimate agast gay and lbian people won’t be limed to those whose relign nmns same-sex marriage.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Potentially, any such pany hostile to gays or lbians uld argue that takg their picture or prtg an vatn or actg as their lawyer or agent or unselor would exprs approval of homosexualy.

Supreme Court led Friday uld refe to make weddg webs for gay upl ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh her. The revelatn distracts om Smh's victory at a time when she might have been baskg her w, which is wily nsired a setback for gay rights. Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple's weddg ke, cg his Christian fah.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.

SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be. Supreme Court led uld refe to make a weddg webse for gay upl had ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh her.

Smh — who did not plan to start creatg weddg webs until her se was rolved — would first have to get a requt om a gay uple and refe, triggerg a possible plat agast her, the state argued. ”In dissent — and monstratg the pth of her disagreement by readg part of her objectns om the bench — Jtice Sonia Sotomayor said her lleagu were abandong prcipl of cln and protectn for gay people that past Supreme Courts extend to women and people of lor durg the civil rights and women’s rights movements. Print Bin lled the urt’s cisn “disappotg” and said he feared uld create addnal pathways for bs to exclu gay people and other mori.

SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS

In 2018, the jtic led narrowly favor of Jack Phillips, a baker who refed to create a weddg ke for a gay uple. They left uncid whether a bs owner’s relig beliefs or ee speech rights n jtify refg some servic to gay ’s office is jt five om Phillips’s Masterpiece Cakhop. To wre the 303 Creative opn, 2020 surprised his fellow nservativ by wrg an opn that said Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay and transgenr workers.

Clayton County, announcg Friday’s lg, and noted the stris gay Amerins have ma toward securg equal Gorsuch ma a distctn between the urt’s precents which has prohibed pelled speech and s cisns upholdg public acmodatn laws. Sotomayor, who ss to Gorsuch’s left, has her time on the urt been a supporter of gay rights, recently officiatg at the same-sex weddg of a former clerk.

Kennedy, who wrote that opn as well as the urt’s landmark cisns on gay rights, has retired. But the hight urt the land is not cidg the big issue the se – whether a bs n refe to serve gay and lbian Supreme Court jtic' limed lg Monday turns on what the urt scribed as anti-relig bias on the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn when led agast baker Jack Phillips. Supreme Court victory over his refal to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on Thursday lost his appeal of a lg a separate se that he vlated a state anti-discrimatn law by not makg a ke to celebrate a genr Colorado Court of Appeals agreed wh a trial judge that Masterpiece Cakhop and the bakery's owner, Jack Phillips, vlated Autumn Srda's rights by nyg her service bee of her inty as a transgenr woman.