Lorie Smith, an evangelical web designer, sued Colorado for violating her religious freedoms, despite the fact that she has never been forced to design a website for a same-sex couple.
Smith, who is being represented by the anti-LGBTQ organization Alliance Defending Freedom, claims that her Christian principles forbid her from providing services to LGBTQ couples.
if their policy “is that only white children can be photographed with Santa in this way, because that’s how they view the scenes with Santa that they’re trying to depict.”“How about people who don’t believe in interracial marriage? Or about people who don’t believe that disabled people should get married? Where’s the line?” Sotomayor asked., questioning whether it was “fair to equate opposition to same-sex marriage to opposition to interracial marriage.
Legal observers noted that the Court’s 6-3 conservative majority appeared to view the case as an opportunity to advance their right-wing Christian nationalist agenda. The Supreme Court’s conservatives see this case as “an opportunity … to forcefully re-draw the line in favor of religious practice, even where it entails discrimination,”
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