The U.S. Supreme Court must dismiss a manufactured case of a Colorado business so that religious discrimination is thwarted, the Freedom From Religion Foundation insists in an amicus brief . The state/church watchdog has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a free speech case involving a Colorado business owner who says she would like to start designing wedding websites and claims that she cannot do so because the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act has put her in a quandary: Due to her Christian religion, she can’t design wedding websites for same-sex couples; the law prohibits her from refusing to design for such couples. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state of Colorado and found that her free speech rights are not violated by the law. Other leading secular groups such as the Center For Inquiry, the American Humanist Association and American Atheists have signed on to FFRF’s brief. The Constitution requires that federal courts only decide actual cases and controversies. In this pre-enforcement challenge, the wannabe Colorado wedding web designer seeks to sidestep that constitutional requirement, FFRF contends. She has never actually designed wedding websites and therefore has never been subject to a complaint under the […]
