Colorado: State to Pay $1.5 Million to Web Designer Who Refused to Work for Fags


Lorie Smith

It’s so retarded that the only right to free association you have in this gay country is a technicality: “it’s against my religion.”

How about “no, I’m not doing that”?

Why the hell should your choices of what to do be determined by the government, with the government needing to approve you have a religious “get out of jail” card for them to allow you to not associate with people you don’t want to associate with?

Westword:

Eight years after a Colorado website designer sued the state to let her limit wedding services to straight couples only, the legal case has finally concluded.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the web designer, Lorie Smith, in June 2023, declaring that the First Amendment allows religious owners of creative businesses to refuse to serve same-sex couples. Now the state has agreed to pay Smith’s attorneys’ fees incurred during the lengthy legal battle.

The state will pay $1.5 million, according to the fee settlement, which was fully executed on Tuesday, November 19.

“This is a win not just for me, but for all Americans — for those who share my beliefs and for those who hold different views,” Smith says. “As the Supreme Court said, I’m free to create art consistent with my beliefs without fear of Colorado punishing me anymore. … I hope that everyone will celebrate the court’s decision upholding this right for each of us to speak freely.”

This is the latest victory for Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom. In this state, the group is best known for defending Masterpiece Cakeshop and owner Jack Phillips in the Supreme Court in 2018, after the baker refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. More recently, the legal team went after Jefferson County Public Schools last year for its policy regarding transgender student accommodations on overnight trips.

In Smith’s case — 303 Creative v. Elenis — the court ruled 6-3 that Colorado could not apply its anti-discrimination law to make Smith provide an expressive service that runs contrary to her religious beliefs.

Smith had not been asked to make a website for any same-sex couple but claimed that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act barring discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender and other characteristics was unconstitutional. The state argued that the case should be dismissed because there was no actual instance of Smith being asked to express something she didn’t believe.

I’m not saying it’s not good she won. It’s fine.

But this whole “religious exemption” thing is the most Jewish thing ever. All of this lawyerism.

How about “I’m not doing that because I don’t want to do that”?

How are Americans so fat and retarded that they tolerate this?