“I am hopeful that they will rule in favor of free speech for all artists and ultimately for everyone,” says Lorie Smith of Colorado-based 303 Creative. Smith’s company offers graphic and website design services and wants to expand to wedding website services, but she says her religious beliefs would lead her to decline any request from a same-sex couple to design a wedding website.
“Wedding websites offer a natural fit for my skills, but in today’s culture that immediately raises the question of promoting not only unions between a man and a woman, but same-sex ceremonies too,” says the web designer. “My religious beliefs won’t allow me to promote the second option. I can’t create a site that would celebrate views contrary to my beliefs.”
Smith also wants to post a statement on her website about her beliefs, but that would run afoul of a Colorado anti-discrimination law – the same law Smith has argued violates her free speech and religious rights.
Liberals are warning this will not go well for LGBTQ people, arguing that Smith is seeking a “license to discriminate.”
“Smith has not sold her services to anyone who wants a wedding-related website, because she fears violating Colorado’s law prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people,” wrote Ian Millhiser for Vox.com. “She wants the Supreme Court to give her license to design wedding websites for opposite-sex couples – and only for opposite-sex couples.”
Smith’s attorney Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) counters that argument.
“If the government has the power to force Lorie to speak messages that she disagrees with, it can force anyone of us to do so – [even] a Democratic speech writer to promote the Republican Party, or an LGBT website designer to condemn same-sex weddings,” Waggoner tells AFN.
“This case illustrates exactly why we have a First Amendment: to prevent officials from eliminating ideas that they dislike from public dialogue and from punishing beliefs that they want to purge from the public square.”
In taking the case, the Supreme Court said it would look only at the free-speech issue. The case is expected to be argued in the fall.
“My religious beliefs won’t allow me to promote the second option. I can’t create a site that would celebrate views contrary to my beliefs.”
They are the ways of God. Ones relationship with God, is entirely between them and God.
Amendment 1 – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
Lev 20:13
13 “‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Rom 1:24-27
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Jude 1:7
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
To fully advance the Demonic, Lying, Treasonous, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive agendas; is to divide our citizens with hate and promote rioting, burning, looting, open borders, gun control, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender “gay marriage” and the like, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the guise of “anti-discrimination.”
When liberals scream discrimination, the liberals are 100% right, in that, liberals discriminate against those of us that are Conservative!
If you own a company that pushes and promote’s LGBTQ lifestyles, please prominently display that in your advertising. That way, I will make sure to NEVER buy a SINGLE thing from your company. See how the First Amendment works!