Judge Uses Supreme Court’s Gay Wedding Website Ruling for Her Own Anti-LGBTQ Lawsuit

Dianne Hensley of Texas is seeking to expand the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis so she doesn't have to perform gay weddings.

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Hair Salon Says Trans Customers Should Visit 'Local Pet Groomer' After Supreme Court Ruling

“If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman...You are not welcome at this salon," the owner of the Michigan business wrote in a Facebook post.

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Religious Freedom or Discrimination: Tackling Recent Supreme Court Rulings
We examine the religious privilege inherent in two recent US Supreme Court religious freedom cases and debunk a historical fable that has been used by courts to allow legislative prayer for
https://www.secularleft.us/archives/2023/07/religious-freedom-or-discrimination.html
#1stAmendment #303CreativeLLCVElenis #ChurchAndState #GroffVDejoy #JacobDuche #LGBTQA #ReligiousBigotry #ReligiousFreedom #ReligiousPrivilege
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The Mysterious Case of the Fake #GayMarriage Website, the Real Straight Man, & the #SupremeCourt

In filings in the #303CreativeLLCvElenis case is a supposed request for a gay wedding website—but the man named in the request says he never filed it.

#ripeness #law #legal #SCOTUS #JudicialActivism #minoritarianism #LGBTQ+Rights #equality #equity #discrimination #precedent
https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court

In filings in the 303 Creative v. Elenis case is a supposed request for a gay wedding website—but the man named in the request says he never filed it.

The New Republic

Tried to look at 303 Creative's site but it's down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/303creative.com
Wayback Machine snapshot includes this text:
"With 303 Creative, you can rest assured that we are experienced in providing a customised, dedicated, and one-stop experience for every client, for every project"

Every client?

Don't know if it's DDOSed or just surplus to requirements now that SCOTUS has ruled but maybe now's the time to change its name to 404 Creative
#303creative #303CreativeLLCvElenis

Additional hashtag variations #303Creative #303CreativeLLCvElenis

#Justice Sonia #Sotomayor delivered a passionate #dissent to the court’s #conservative majority. Sotomayor decried the decision protecting rights of a web designer to refuse to create websites for the weddings of #SameSex couples.

Sotomayor called it a “sad day in American constitutional law & in the lives of LGBT people.”

Dissent starts p33
#LGBTQ+Rights #law #equality #gender #legal #SCOTUS #303CreativeLLCvElenis #minoritarianism
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf

Supreme Court Uses Bogus Case to Open Pandora's Box of Discrimination

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a powerful dissent that “the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second-class status.”

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Turns Out the Supreme Court's Gay Wedding Website Case May Be Based on a Lie

Lorie Smith has never made wedding websites, but she claims she was asked to by a gay couple. New reporting suggests the request was bogus.

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The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People

What’s curious about the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case is that no actual offense to religious freedoms occurred in the first place.

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