Designer ready for high court fight on excluding gay couples

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A Christian web designer who contends her religious beliefs prevent her from making wedding websites for gay couples said Monday that her legal battle in the U.S. Supreme Court next month is about protecting everyone’s right to free speech.

Lorie Smith spoke about her case, which is the latest clash over religion and LGBTQ rights to reach the nation's highest court, while sitting in the office she uses for her design company in the Denver suburb of Littleton. The room was adorned with two crosses and a wooden plaque inscribed with a line from Ephesians: “I am God’s masterpiece.”

Smith claims Colorado's anti-discrimination law violates her right to free speech over same-sex marriages, which she maintains are antithetical to her Christian values. Though Smith hasn't yet expanded to her services to include wedding websites with her company, 303 Creative, she said she's dreamed about doing so since she was a child.

“Colorado is censoring and compelling my speech,” said Smith, who identifies as evangelical non-denominational. “Forcing me to communicate, celebrate and create for messages that go against my deeply held beliefs.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/designer-ready-high-court-fight-005222556.html

[RKP5637]

1. FFS!!! n/t

[msongs]

2. more lies. if its about free speech she is ok with being discrimated for being xtian....right? nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I wonder why a gay couple would consider hiring someone like her.

I suppose that's not quite the first thing people think of ["I need a website. I am gay. Is the website designer gay friendly?"] but perhaps that needs to be up front and center for people not basic heterosexuals.

I am an ordinary straight women. I have various gay and lesbian friends, and I'm quite please that I have recently made the acquaintance of one trans man and one trans woman. Chances are I've crossed paths with other trans people, who simply don't need to tell me about that.

Oh, and as an ordinary straight woman, if I learned that a local baker or wedding planner or whatever wouldn't work with a gay couple, I would never patronize them again.

[jmowreader]

4. Her picture is in the article

The only two things I can think of: she seriously needs to get on a better skincare routine, or she's old enough that there weren't websites when she was a child. If I had to choose one, it would be the second: she looks like she's about fifty years old, which would have made her 18 in 1990 - the year Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML.