Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Law Forces Artists To Echo the State's Message A website designer asks SCOTUS to let her eschew work that contradicts her opposition to gay marriage. Reason · Dec 7, 2022
Supreme Court appears to side with wedding web designer opposed to same-sex marriage 6-3 conservative supermajority appear sympathetic to Colorado Christian web designer Lorie Smith The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022
Do we all get to do that? Supreme Court ruling might open door to businesses closing doors on certain customers. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 6, 2022
Religion, LGBTQ rights collide in Supreme Court case The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is sounding sympathetic to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 6, 2022
Alito "jokes" of Black kids in KKK hoods Alito later joked about Ashley Madison, a dating site that helps people have affairs Salon · Dec 6, 2022
The US supreme court is poised to strike another blow against gay rights The court is hearing a case that could allow the kind of naked discrimination that the gay rights and civil rights movements fought so hard to end The Guardian - US · Dec 6, 2022
Justice Samuel Alito under fire for KKK joke during Supreme Court oral arguments: ‘You can’t make this up’ Observers called his comments ‘really upsetting’ The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022
Supreme Court signals sympathy with web designer opposed to same-sex marriage in free speech case In front of the Supreme Court justices on Dec. 5, 2022 was 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – a major case regarding LGBTQ rights and free speech. The Conversation · Dec 6, 2022
Supreme Court leans in favor of a Christian website designer’s right to turn away gay weddings WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday sounded ready to rule that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to work with same-sex couples planning to marry. Los Angeles Times · Dec 6, 2022
Supreme Court Debates Whether Web Designers Can Be Forced To Make Gay Wedding Pages A million hypotheticals bloom in arguments over when and where the government may compel speech. Reason · Dec 5, 2022
Supreme Court leans in favor of a Christian website designer’s right to turn away gay weddings WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday sounded ready to rule that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to work with same-sex couples planning to marry. Los Angeles Times · Dec 5, 2022
US Supreme Court hears arguments challenging LGBTQ rights law A Colorado website designer has requested exemption from a state law that could compel her to serve same-sex marriages. Al Jazeera · Dec 5, 2022
Supreme Court hears arguments in same-sex wedding website clash - Roll Call The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case that could broaden free speech exemptions to anti-discrimination laws nationwide. Roll Call · Dec 5, 2022
Supreme Court to decide if a Christian business owner can turn away gay weddings WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about whether a conservative Christian business owner has a 1st Amendment right to refuse to work with same-sex couples planning to marry. Los Angeles Times · Dec 5, 2022
Los Angeles Times · Dec 5, 2022 Commentary: Does the First Amendment protect a right to discriminate? On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to open the door widely to businesses being allowed to violate anti-discrimination laws. If the court rules that the First Amendment protects the right of business owners to discriminate — based on claims of freedom of…
The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022 Supreme Court taking up clash of religion and gay rights The Supreme Court is hearing the case of a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, that’s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court
Reason · Dec 3, 2022 A First Amendment for Everyone What the Supreme Court should do in 303 Creative v. Elenis, Monday's case involving a graphic designer who does not want to create same-sex wedding websites.
Tribune News Service · Dec 3, 2022 Same-sex marriage returns to Supreme Court in web designer’s free speech bid A Colorado website designer who opposes same-sex marriage is the newest face of a religious-rights movement that has been taking full advantage of the Supreme Court’s conservative super-majority.
The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2022 Both sides see high stakes in gay rights Supreme Court case The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples
The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2022 Designer ready for high court fight on excluding gay couples Colorado will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court against a Christian web designer who does not want to create custom wedding websites for same-sex couples
The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022 Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a wedding cake for a gay couple a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling that he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law — this time over complaints he refused to make a birthday…
The Conversation · Sep 9, 2022 Supreme Court to revisit LGBTQ rights – this time with a wedding website designer, not a baker A simmering, difficult, and timely question returns to the Supreme Court this fall: What happens when freedom of speech and civil rights collide?
Reason · Aug 22, 2022 ACLU Abandons First Amendment in Colorado Gay Wedding Web-Hosting Case How do you justify government speech mandates? Apparently, you deliberately pretend that businesses have no right to control the messages they choose to present.
Tribune News Service · Jun 30, 2022 Harvard affirmative action, gay rights cases are next up at Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court reshaped the legal landscape in dramatic ways in the past few months, and it may just be getting started.
Reason · Jun 6, 2022 Gay Weddings Return to The Supreme Court Can a web designer be compelled under the First Amendment to host wedding pictures?