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(JTA) — When the U.S. Supreme Court sided last month with a Colorado web designer who refuses to do work for same-sex couples because of her
303 Creative LLC v. Elenis is a fact-specific decision holding that the First Amendment creates a narrow exception to the state of Colorado’s anti-discrimination law for a website developer whose work involves creating “expressive designs” and selecting customers to convey the designer’s message.
The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination is protected speech. As children of Holocaust survivors, Menachem Rosensaft and Eva Fogelman understand where this leads.
In rejecting the request for a preliminary injunction, the court emphasized that the policy impacts the teacher's speech only in her official capacity as public school employee, not her private expression.
With religious freedom, they can't make you say or believe the things they want to.