DENVER — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys and allied attorneys representing a Colorado graphic designer, who challenged a state law forcing her to promote same-sex ceremonies, are appealing a September 1 ruling against her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Issued by a federal judge, the ruling refused to temporarily halt the law that also prohibits her from publicly expressing her Christian belief in marriage between one man and one woman. The judge then placed her legal challenge on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a separate and distinct challenge.
ADF attorneys represent Lorie Smith and her studio, 303 Creative. A federal judge ruled that Smith and her studio can’t sue to challenge a portion of Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act because a request sent to Smith by a couple, self-identified as “Stewart” and “Mike,” isn’t formal enough to prove that a same-sex couple has asked her to help them celebrate their wedding.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission has construed the law to force artists like Smith to create objectionable art even though Smith happily serves everyone and decides what art to create based on the art’s message — not the personal characteristics of the prospective client.
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