LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Chelsey Nelson runs a wedding photography and blogging business here. She is involved in a suit against the local metro government. (Alliance Defending Freedom photo) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) — A court decision in support of a Kentucky photographer who declines to shoot same-sex weddings is a victory for religious freedom, advocates for the First Amendment right said. In an Aug. 14 order, federal judge Justin Walker blocked the city of Louisville from enforcing a law against Chelsey Nelson that requires her to provide her services for a same-sex ceremony if she does so for a wedding between a man and a woman. Walker’s decision enables Nelson, a Christian, to continue to act in her business based on her religious convictions while she continues her legal challenge to Louisville’s Fairness Ordinance. The order also prevents enforcement of a section of the gay and transgender rights measure that prohibits Nelson from publishing on the website the reasons she photographs and edits photos of only male-female weddings. Nelson blogs about weddings and other subjects on her business’ website. Walker’s decision “affirms that our consciences matter, and we are encouraged to see the courts respect the conscience rights of creative […]
