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A business can decline service based on its beliefs, Supreme Court rules – but what will this look like in practice?

At issue in one of this year’s most highly anticipated Supreme Court cases, 303 Creative v. Elenis, was what happens when someone’s free speech or beliefs conflict with others’ rights. Specifically, 303 Creative addressed whether a Colorado anti-discrimination law can require a designer who believes marriage is only between a…

The Conversation

Web designer in Supreme Court gay rights ruling cited client who denies making wedding site request

A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her

The Independent UK

Wider than websites? LGBTQ+ advocates fear broader discrimination after Supreme Court ruling

A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing a Colorado Christian graphic artist to refuse to work on wedding websites for same-sex couples has LGBTQ+ people across the country worried about broader consequences

The Independent UK

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Advocates fear more setbacks for LGBTQ rights

The ruling upends the precedent that businesses had to provide equal service to all potential customers.

Axios

Colorado Can't Force a Graphic Designer To Create Same-Sex Wedding Websites, Supreme Court Rules

The decision reverses a terrible previous decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Reason

The ‘fake’ gay marriage case in the middle of the Supreme Court’s latest threat to LGBT+ rights

How did a straight, married man get in the middle of the high-stakes case?

The Independent UK

‘A dangerous step backwards’: outrage at supreme court’s LGBTQ+ rights ruling

Critics of court’s decision say it ushers in a new era of prejudice, and warn of an increase in discrimination

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Businesses can now discriminate against LGBTQ individuals, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court struck a blow to gay rights today after deciding in favour of a Christian graphic-designer who refused to serve same-sex couples based on their religious beliefs

Daily Mirror

US top court deals blow to LGBTQ rights in web designer case

Supreme Court sides with business owner who refused to provide services for same-sex wedding, citing freedom of speech.

Al Jazeera

The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn’t want to make wedding websites for gay couples

The court ruled 6-3 for designer Lorie Smith despite a Colorado law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender and other characteristics.

Chicago Sun-Times

Homophobic businesses in the US have a powerful ally: the US supreme court

The court is more interested in protecting the dignity of bigots than the dignity of gay couples denied services for who they are

The Guardian - US

US supreme court strikes blow against LGBTQ+ rights with Colorado ruling

Web designer backed by Christian group argued making websites for same-sex couples would violate her first amendment rights

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court allows Colorado designer to deny LGBT+ customers in ruling on last day of Pride Month

Supreme Court delievered final rulings of the term, opening door for artists to deny services to LGBT+ people

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn't want to make wedding websites for gay couples

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has ruled a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples

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Supreme Court says 1st Amendment entitles web designer to refuse same-sex wedding work

The court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."

Roll Call

Supreme Court backs right to not make same-sex wedding websites - Roll Call

The Supreme Court sided Friday with the owner of a company who refuses to build websites for same-sex weddings because of religious beliefs.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Christian ‘hate group’ funds US anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion organizations

Alliance Defending Freedom distributes hundreds of thousands of dollars to fringe groups attacking trans, gay and abortion rights. Plus, Ketanji Jackson’s impassioned affirmative action dissent

The Guardian - US

Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court

Christian website designer says she received email request from same-sex couple but ‘author’ says he did not send it – and is not gay

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Salon

SCOTUS anti-LGBTQ case may be fabricated

Man named in suit says he never requested a gay wedding website — and is married to a woman

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court's biggest decisions are coming. Here's what they could say.

The Supreme Court is getting ready to decide some of its biggest cases of the term

Reason

She Was Jailed for Basic Journalism. A Federal Court Isn't Sure if That's Unconstitutional.

Priscilla Villarreal's case will be heard again tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She has attracted some unlikely supporters.

Reason

"Free Speech, Same-Sex Marriage, and Anti-Discrimination Laws"

A podcast conversation on 303 Creative between Joshua Matz and me, hosted by Jeffrey Rosen.

Chicago Sun-Times

Anti-discrimination law infringes on artists’ rights to free speech

A website designer asks SCOTUS to let her eschew work that contradicts her opposition to gay marriage. The implications are potentially sweeping.

Reason

The Annie Leibovitz Limiting Principle for 303 Creative

The ACLU inadvertently explains how Lorie Smith could prevail.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Another bite at the rotten apple: SCOTUS should reject anti-gay designer’s arguments

The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments over whether business owners can refuse service to LGBT couples based on their religious objections to the would-be customers’ marriage. If you’re getting déjà vu, it might be because that circumstance played already, exactly five years before to the day, when the court heard…

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