Split along party lines, the Supreme Courts conservative majority sided with a Christian web designer who doesn t want to make sites for LGBTQ+ people.
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DENVER - Una corte de apelaciones de Estados Unidos falló en contra de una diseñadora web que no quería crear sitios web de bodas para parejas del mismo sexo y presentó una demanda para desafiar la ley antidiscriminación de Colorado, otro giro en una serie de fallos judiciales en todo el país sobre si empresas que niegan servicios a personas LGBTQ equivalen a prejuicios o libertad de expresión.
Un panel de tres jueces de la Corte de Apelaciones del Décimo Circuito de EEUU en Denver negó el lunes el intento de Lorie Smith de revocar una decisión de un tribunal inferior que desestima su impugnación legal.
“The government should never force creative professionals to promote a message or cause with which they disagree. That is quintessential free speech and artistic freedom,” the group’s senior counsel, John Bursch, said in a statement.
Lambda Legal, a group that fights for the civil rights of LGBTQ people, had submitted a brief supporting the Colorado law.
“This really isn’t about cake or websites or flowers,” Lambda Legal senior counsel Jennifer C. Pizer said in a statement. “It’s about protecting LGBTQ people and their families from being subjected to slammed doors, service refusals and public humiliation in countless places from fertility clinics to funeral homes and everywhere in between.”
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DENVER - Una corte de apelaciones de Estados Unidos falló en contra de una diseñadora web que no quería crear sitios web de bodas para parejas del mismo sexo y presentó una demanda para desafiar la ley antidiscriminación de Colorado, otro giro en una serie de fallos judiciales en todo el país sobre si empresas que niegan servicios a personas LGBTQ equivalen a prejuicios o libertad de expresión.
Un panel de tres jueces de la Corte de Apelaciones del Décimo Circuito de EEUU en Denver negó el lunes el intento de Lorie Smith de revocar una decisión de un tribunal inferior que desestima su impugnación legal.
“The government should never force creative professionals to promote a message or cause with which they disagree. That is quintessential free speech and artistic freedom,” the group’s senior counsel, John Bursch, said in a statement.
Lambda Legal, a group that fights for the civil rights of LGBTQ people, had submitted a brief supporting the Colorado law.
“This really isn’t about cake or websites or flowers,” Lambda Legal senior counsel Jennifer C. Pizer said in a statement. “It’s about protecting LGBTQ people and their families from being subjected to slammed doors, service refusals and public humiliation in countless places from fertility clinics to funeral homes and everywhere in between.”