[1/3] Web designer Lorie Smith, plaintiff in a Supreme Court case who objects to same-sex marriage, poses for a portrait at her office in Littleton, Colorado, U.S., November 28, 2022.
REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/June 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday is poised to rule on whether a Christian web designer from Colorado has a right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages based on constitutional free speech protections - a case that could upend state anti-discrimination laws.
The liberal justices during the argument said a decision favoring Smith could empower certain businesses to discriminate.
Smith thus is free to sell whatever she wants, including websites with biblical passages stating an opposite-sex vision of marriage.
The Supreme Court has supported religious rights and related free speech claims in recent years in other cases.
Persons:
Lorie Smith, Kevin Mohatt, Smith, preemptively, Joe Biden's, Andrew Chung, Will Dunham
Organizations:
REUTERS, U.S, Supreme, Alliance Defending, Thomson
Locations:
Littleton , Colorado, U.S, Colorado, Denver, Colorado's, Littleton, New York