Opinion: Lorie Smith’s desire to discriminate shouldn’t sway an unbiased Supreme Court
Author, The Denver Post, December 11, 2022
As the United States Supreme Court takes up yet another culture war issue, it comes against a backdrop of falling stature, overt conflicts of interest, and questionable behavior.
At issue this week is whether Lorie Smith, a Colorado Christian web designer, and her company, 303 Creative LLC, are required to provide wedding website design services to same-sex couples. Smith believes her Christian faith prevents her from creating websites for gay customers even though such a website would be otherwise identical to one she would design for a straight couple.
Importantly, the case presents a mere hypothetical. Smith has never created wedding websites before and does not create wedding websites for any customers, let alone same-sex couples.
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