Hate Group Loses Bid To Overturn Colorado LGBT Rights

The Associated Press reports:

A U.S. appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, another twist in a series of court rulings nationwide about whether businesses denying services to LGBTQ people amounts to bias or freedom of speech.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Monday denied Lorie Smith’s attempt to overturn a lower court ruling throwing out her legal challenge.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents Smith, argued that the law forced her to violate her Christian beliefs. In the 2-1 ruling, the panel said Colorado had a compelling interest in protecting the “dignity interests” of members of marginalized groups through its law.

Read the full article. As I reported when this suit was first filed back in 2016, it’s likely that Smith’s is yet another fake company created by the ADF in order file a “peremptory challenge.” In other words, she never refused any LGBT clients because she never had any attempt to hire her.