A devout Christian opens a business designing customized webpages. She serves customers of all races, faiths, creeds, and sexual orientations, but she politely declines to design pages expressing messages that contradict her faith.
A free-speech case that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next week is expected to be an important legal test for First Amendment-protected rights. It also represents a second chance for the high court to defend religious liberty in a highly secularized culture.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett was urged to recuse herself from an upcoming Supreme Court case on free speech and LGBT issues by former members of a niche Christian group she is affiliated with, arguing the faith organization has discriminatory policies against same-sex marriage.
Custom website and graphic designer Lorie Smith doesn't want to be forced to create websites for same-sex weddings due to her Christian faith, an issue the Supreme Court will debate next month in a free speech case challenging Colorado's anti-discrimination law.