We’re going to need to demand reparations from Colorado. They keep wasting our money with court cases that mirror ones they’ve already lost at the High Court because of their so-called anti-religious discrimination commission.
While we’re at it, the lower courts beginning in Colorado, could use a bit of instruction on this as well. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cake Shop has repeatedly defeated the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which continues to try and infringe on his religious rights of Conscience. This time it was a web designer.
Lorie Smith, a graphic designer who wanted to expand into wedding websites, sought a ruling that Colorado could not enforce its anti-discrimination law against her. Smith opposes same-sex marriage on religious grounds and wanted to post a message on her page indicating that she would not design websites for same-sex couples.
“The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees,” Justice Gorsuch wrote for the 6-3 majority in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. …
“Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience,” Gorsuch wrote.
The three Liberal Justices dissented.
“New forms of inclusion have been met with reactionary exclusion. This is heartbreaking. Sadly, it is also familiar. When the civil rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected those claims.”
Sorry Wise Latina, but the government cannot compel her speech or expression, nor can they punish her for it. Woman. Speech. Rights. You are comparing women’s rights movements to the state of Colorado denying her a right that exists regardless of sex or gender (if that’s something you cling to). A thing for which men and women of all races fought to protect.
LGBT designers don’t have to do straight wedding sites; no one would try to make them. And that’s not discrimination.
One more point. What might be your position if Lorie Smith was a Hijab-wearing devout Muslim? The answer is that you’d never have to provide one. The appropriate Colorado Star Chamber would never consider pressing the matter, which proves another form of discrimination against Smith.
HT | NR
