Supreme Court to decide if businesses may deny same-sex weddings

Supreme Court to decide if businesses may deny same-sex weddings

A Denver website designer wants to refuse to make sites for same-sex weddings. She says the ceremonies conflict with her religion. Critics say that’s discrimination.

  • The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall in the latest test of LGBTQ, religious and free speech rights.
  • Conservatives say a government shouldn’t be allowed to compel artists to support same-sex marriage.
  • The disputes follow the court’s landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

WASHINGTON – Cindy Wilker, a retired Marine who jokingly describes herself as an “angry old lesbian,” isn’t easily offended – or pushed around.  

But the 62-year-old Floridian was dumbstruck when a florist declined to sell her roses she hoped to buy for the woman she has loved for decades. She left the shop in tears.


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