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Supreme Court to weigh whether web designer may refuse services for same-sex weddings

By Brendan Morrow The Week

The Supreme Court is set to take up a case concerning whether a Colorado web designer may decline to provide her services for same-sex weddings.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case, in which a Christian web designer, Lorie Smith, said she would refuse to create websites for same-sex marriages, the Los Angeles Times reports. Her attorneys said she is “willing to work with all people regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, and gender” but that she “cannot create websites that promote messages contrary to her faith, such as messages that condone violence or promote sexual immorality, abortion, or same-sex marriage.”

Smith sued over Colorado’s law prohibiting businesses from discrimination against gay people, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled against her, with Judge Mary Beck Briscoe writing that Colorado “may prohibit speech that promotes unlawful activity, including unlawful discrimination,” The New York Times reports.

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