A Colorado baker who had won a narrow U.S. 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 transn.
Contents:
- AS SUPREME COURT PREPAR TO LISTEN TO COLORADO GAY RIGHTS SE, BOTH SIS SAY STAK ARE HIGH
- LEGIMACY OF 'CTOMER' SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- THE HIGH STAK A COLORADO-CENTRIC GAY RIGHTS SE BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
- NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
AS SUPREME COURT PREPAR TO LISTEN TO COLORADO GAY RIGHTS SE, BOTH SIS SAY STAK ARE HIGH
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. * colorado gay rights case *
The 22-year-old spected shooter at a gay night club Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, who allegedly killed five and jured dozens fac five unts of murr and hate crim charg. The se marks the send time five years that the Supreme Court has nonted the issue of a bs owner who says their relign prevents them om creatg works for a gay weddg.
” Those bs, they said, uld announce, “We Do Not Serve Blacks, Gays, or Mlims. ” Smh's se follows that of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who objected to creatg a weddg ke for a gay uple. Smh said she wanted to beg offerg weddg webs, but do not want to make weddg webs for gay upl bee of her relig has argued that her webs should be classed as art and therefore protected by her nstutnal right to ee speech unr the first state of Colorado said this would vlate the Colorado Anti-Discrimatn Act, which says bs nnot refe servic to ctomers based on sexual orientatn, race or his majory opn, Gorsuch said that the first amendment prohibed Colorado om “forcg a webse signer to create exprsive signs speakg msag wh which the signer disagre”.
The symbolic effect, she said, was to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat. He bragged that he had “played a role appotg three of the jtic that ensured today’s weled cisn” the Tmp admistratn, three seats on the urt were filled wh the ultra-nservativ Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavangh and Amy Coney ’s lg alt wh a qutn left open a siar recent se, when the urt cid that a Colorado baker did not have to bake a ke for a gay uple’s weddg.
LEGIMACY OF 'CTOMER' SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
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Smh had claimed that she was approached by a gay man named Stewart requtg her servic for a weddg webse, but the New Republic reported that he had never ma the approach and was, bis, a heterosexual was reprented by the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a rightwg Christian group which has equently pursued s targetg LGBTQ+ Southern Poverty Law Center class the ADF as an extremist group. A Christian graphic artist Colorado 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.
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. "The ADF is untg on you to jo them seeg the LGBTQ muny as an outsized threat pared to the actual percentage of adult Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, " Greenmh Supreme Court's cisn the se is "yet another weapon the arsenal or arm of the octop" of the "same people who are phg the legislatn, " Greenmh Amerins support LGBTQ rights, surveys fdAnother recent survey also found most Amerins support nondiscrimatn protectns for LGBTQ Amerin adults – cludg two-thirds of those intifyg as Catholics or Christians – disagree wh relig-based nial of medil re, employment or other servic to LGBTQ dividuals, acrdg to a September 2022 survey nducted by the Universy of Chigo partnership wh the Williams Instute, a thk tank dited to genr inty and sexual orientatn rearch at the Universy of California Los Angel School of, pollg that asks qutns on the right of a bs owner to refe service based on their relig beliefs shows more mixed rults.
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.
THE HIGH STAK A COLORADO-CENTRIC GAY RIGHTS SE BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
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 's lawyers mataed that she didn't have to be punished for vlatg the law before challengg . Smh’s se follows that of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who objected to creatg a weddg ke for a gay uple.
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. Supreme Court 2017 agreed to hear Phillips’ challenge to the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn's ncln he discrimated agast a gay uple for whom he had refed to make a weddg Supreme Court 2018 led Phillips' favor but on narrow grounds that stopped short of creatg a ee speech exemptn to anti-discrimatn laws, fdg the missn was hostile toward Phillips’ Christian 6-3 nservative majory urt December heard arguments a siar se volvg Alliance Defendg Freedom client Lorie Smh, a Christian web signer who argu she has a right to refe to provi servic for same-sex se is Srda v. Supreme Court leans toward web signer wh anti-gay marriage stanceColorado baker se of Supreme Court su state over 'persecutn'U.
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NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
It volv one bs owner and her fear that “if” she were to sign webs for engaged upl, then she “might” have to sign one for a gay uple. It was always about standg up to homophobia. The speech at issue the se is that of same-sex upl, not bspeople like Smh, gay rights lawyers argue.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
But the current batch of Republin-appoted jtic have hardly been hostile to gay rights.
In a surprise to many urtwatchers, Gorsuch wrote the opn, ncludg that a leral readg of longstandg law agast sex discrimatn the workplace prevented discrimatn agast gay, lbian and transgenr people, even though Congrs failed for s to pass legislatn explicly addg such protectns.