The top court agreed to hear an evangelical Christian web designer’s free speech claim that she cannot be forced under a Colorado anti-discrimination law to produce websites for same-sex marriages.
Highlights
- The U.S.
- Supreme Court takes up a major new legal fight pitting religious beliefs against LGBT rights.
- Christian web designer Lorie Smith says she cannot be forced under a Colorado anti-discrimination law to produce websites for same-sex marriages.
- Colorado law bars anyone from refusing “goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations” based on sexual orientation, age, race, gender and religion.
- Case follows the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in favor of a Christian Denver-area baker who refused on religious grounds to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
- The Supreme Court has become increasingly supportive of religious rights and related free speech claims in recent years.