Mon Dec 5, 2022 – 4:20 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Oral arguments began Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court over whether a Christian web designer may be forced to create a website celebrating same-sex unions, with early questioning so far reinforcing expectations as to how the right-leaning majority will rule.
Lorie Smith, owner of the marketing, web, and graphic design company 303 Creative LLC, preemptively challenged Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) in anticipation of legal challenges to her desired web design work celebrating “biblical marriage,” and her intent to publish a disclaimer that she “firmly believe[s]” that she is being called by God to do work that “celebrate[s] His design for marriage as a life-long union between one man and one woman.”
Last year, a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled 3-1 against Smith, finding that her refusal would “arguably” deny service “because of sexual orientation” and therefore interfere with the “equal access to publicly available goods and services” under CADA. Remarkably, Judge Mary Beck Briscoe wrote that a “faith that enriches society in one way might also damage society in other, particularly when that faith would exclude others from unique goods or services.”
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