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Contents:
- CHRISTIAN WEDDG PHOTOGRAPHER WHO REFED SERVICE TO GAY UPL LOS SE
- DOJ BACKS KENTUCKY PHOTOGRAPHER WHO WON'T DO GAY WEDDGS
- US SUPREME URT CL APPEAL OF PHOTOGRAPHER WHO REFED GAY UPLE
- SUPREME COURT REJECTS GAY WEDDG PHOTOGRAPHY CASE
CHRISTIAN WEDDG PHOTOGRAPHER WHO REFED SERVICE TO GAY UPL LOS SE
Chelsey Nelson is sug Louisville over a cy law that prevents bs om discrimatg agast gay ctomers. * photographer refuses gay wedding *
The Department of Jtice is backg a Kentucky weddg photographer who is sug the cy of Louisville over an ordance banng lol bs om discrimatg agast gay DOJ’s “statement of tert, ” filed this week feral urt, asserts that the photographer, Chelsey Nelson, is likely to succeed her claim, bee requirg her to photograph a “ceremony that vlat her scerely held relig beliefs” — Nelson’s se, a same-sex weddg — “vas her First Amendment rights. But while she is opposed to providg her servic to two bris or two grooms, her lawsu stat that she would “happily work wh and provi her weddg celebratn servic for a weddg between a homosexual man and a woman. ”The su echo a narrow 2018 lg by the Supreme Court that said Colorado vlated the rights of a baker to exercise his relign when sanctned him for clg to bake a weddg ke for a gay NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram Brooke SopelsaBrooke Sopelsa is the edorial director of NBC Out, NBC News' LGBTQ digal statn.
"In a letter wrten by MediaMansn they stated that due to relig beliefs, they do not film gay weddgs or engagements.
"We simply do not film gay ceremoni or engagements. Alliance Defendg Freedom, the legal group that took up the photographer’s se, said a statement that while was “eply disappoted the supreme urt did not take this opportuny to also affirm Jon and Elae’s eedom”, hoped that parable s other stat would produce a different Sears, the print of the group and the thor of the 2003 book The Homosexual Agenda: Exposg the Prcipal Threat to Relig Freedom Today, vowed a vio statement to ntue to fight specifilly on behalf of bs that provi weddg-related servic but do not want to work wh same-sex upl.
DOJ BACKS KENTUCKY PHOTOGRAPHER WHO WON'T DO GAY WEDDGS
An appeal brought by a photographer who refed to take pictur of gay weddgs was turned down by the Supreme Court on Monday morng. The issue of refg servic related to gay marriag has also arisen elsewhere, such as Colorado, where a ke maker refed a uple's bs, as NPR's Liz Halloran reported last December.