Colorado, like 29 other states, requires businesses that are open to the public to offer equal access to everyone, regardless of race, religion, and sexual orientation, and gender. Lorie Smith claims the law violates her right to freedom of speech.
Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, a website design company in Colorado, speaks Monday to reporters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, a website design company in Colorado, speaks Monday to reporters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.The U.S. Supreme Court heard more than two hours of arguments Monday in a constitutional test of state public accommodations laws that protect same-sex couples from discrimination.
Challenging the law is Lorie Smith, a custom web designer who is opposed to same-sex marriage."I want to design for weddings that are consistent with my faith," she says. Sotomayor asked a question that recurred several times."How about people who don't believe in interracial marriage?" she wanted to know. For example, there could be business owners who say,"I'm not going to serve those people because I don't believe Black people and white people should get married." Would this be permissible?
All the justices pressed each side to draw a limiting line. If the court says Lorie Smith does not have to provide her services for same-sex weddings, then what about the baker, the jeweler, the tailor, the photographer and the caterer?
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