303 Creative owner: Oral arguments "encouraged" me

Christian web designer Lorie Smith said she is “encouraged” in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation after the Supreme Court heard her case seeking an exemption to Colorado anti-discrimination law that would force her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples.

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Smith filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act that required her business to create same-sex wedding websites despite her religious beliefs. Smith pointed out that she had, in fact, worked with same-sex customers without issue, but that she always considers the message of what any customer is asking her to create and that “there are some messages I can’t create no matter who requests them.”

“Nobody should be punished for wanting to create a consistent with what they believe and that the right to speak freely protects not just me LGBTQ web designer who shouldn’t be forced to create message opposing same-sex marriage,” Smith noted. “So in this case, the right to speak freely is really here for all of us.”

[I’m not sure if I found the arguments encouraging as much as I didn’t find any reason to be discouraged in them. We’ll see in June. — Ed]

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