In the case of Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Olson said the Supreme Court could not agree on whether cakes are a form of expression. He said that would be discrimination under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Kristen Waggoner, a lawyer for the alliance, said Smith would not take that job.Ĭolorado Solicitor General Eric Olson questioned whether Smith should even be allowed to challenge the law since she had not started offering wedding websites yet.īut if she did, Olson said, her argument would mean she would refuse to create a website for a hypothetical same-sex couple named Alex and Taylor but agree to make the same one for an opposite-sex couple with the same names. In arguments before the three-judge panel in November, Chief Judge Timothy Tymkovich asked what Smith would do if she was approached by a straight wedding planner asking her to create four heterosexual wedding sites and one for a same-sex wedding. “It’s about protecting LGBTQ people and their families from being subjected to slammed doors, service refusals and public humiliation in countless places - from fertility clinics to funeral homes and everywhere in between.” “This really isn’t about cake or websites or flowers,” Lambda Legal senior counsel Jennifer C. Lambda Legal, a group that fights for the civil rights of LGBTQ people, had submitted a brief supporting the Colorado law.
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That is quintessential free speech and artistic freedom,” the group’s senior counsel, John Bursch, said in a statement. “The government should never force creative professionals to promote a message or cause with which they disagree. Founded in 1994 by Christian leaders concerned about religious freedom, the group said it would appeal Monday’s ruling. Alliance Defending Freedom offices are in Washington, D.C., Lansdowne, Virginia Lawrenceville, Georgia and Scottsdale, Arizona. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom also represented Phillips. But it did not rule on the larger issue of whether a business can invoke religious objections to refuse service to LGBTQ people. The high court decided the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had acted with anti-religious bias against Phillips after he refused to bake a cake for two men who were getting married. The second case revolved around a funeral home employee who was fired after telling her boss she was transgender. One case deals with whether a worker can be fired for their sexual orientation. The anti-discrimination law is the same one at issue in the case of Colorado baker Jack Phillips that was decided in 2018 by the U.S. Supreme Court today is hearing arguments in two cases that could decide whether federal laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace based on sex also include LGBTQ employees. In the 2-1 ruling, the panel said Colorado had a compelling interest in protecting the “dignity interests” of members of marginalized groups through its law. The Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents Smith, argued that the law forced her to violate her Christian beliefs.
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