Can a Web Designer Be Forced To Make Gay Wedding Pages? The Supreme Court Will Decide

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : While providers of commercial services are certainly subject to state anti-discrimination obligations, their freedom of speech must remain protected.
50% : The Cato Institute, joined by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh (of The Volokh Conspiracy) and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law professor Dale Carpenter (also a contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy), have submitted an amicus curiae brief supporting Smith, urging the Court to find that Colorado's anti-discrimination laws violate her First Amendment rights.
47% : The Supreme Court will finally be tackling the question of whether a public accommodation law can compel a business owner to produce messages that violate their personal beliefs as part of anti-discrimination protections.
47% : It ruled in favor of the adoption agency -- not for religious freedom reasons, but because the law gave city officials discretion to grant exemptions, and therefore, it was not a neutrally applied law.
46% : The extent that the services of a baker, florist, photographer, and others were protected by the First Amendment and whether public accommodation laws could force businesses to provide their services for ceremonies over which they held moral objections remain legally muddled.
45% : In the orders today that the Supreme Court will hear the case, the Court narrowed down the questions in the case to a single issue: "Whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment." Do not expect some sort of broad ruling that would radically rethink anti-discrimination laws.
38% : Smith planned to design and host sites for weddings, but she has religious objections to same-sex marriage and does not want to be forced to design and host sites for such weddings.
32% : Smith counters that she isn't refusing to serve LGBT customers, but she "cannot create websites that promote messages contrary to her faith, such as messages that condone violence or promote sexual immorality, abortion, or same-sex marriage," according to her petition to the Supreme Court.

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