Colorado To Pay $1.5M To Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group

September 30, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups

Reuters reports:

The state of Colorado has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in legal fees to a web designer who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that the right to free speech allows some businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings.

Colorado and web designer Lorie Smith’s lawyers at conservative law firm Alliance Defending Freedom disclosed the accord in a court filing last week.

A state board approved the amount, which was less than the nearly $2 million that Smith had originally sought after her free speech win at the high court. The justices in June 2023 ruled 6-3 in favor of Smith, who cited her Christian beliefs in challenging a state anti-discrimination law.

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Last year it was reported that the ADF’s claim that Smith [photo above] was contacted by gay man seeking a same-sex wedding website is false and that the man in question is straight, was married to a woman at the time, and says that he made no such request.

As I’ve said here many times, the ADF invents these businesses with the specific intention of challenging local pro-LGBTQ ordinances.

The ADF, you will recall, petitioned the US Supreme Court to keep homosexuality criminalized in a brief submitted in the landmark 2003 Lawrence v Texas case.



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