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Speech and those other examples speech is not at issue. >> the supreme court side stepped this years ago. on very narrow grounds that only applied to that case. >> our rights are not up for debate. >> reporter: now the stakes are much higher with concern building among lgbtq advocates that a ruling for the website designer could be a harbinger for other rulings. >> if there were to be a loophole of the kind discussed, people with disabilities, african americans, jews, muslims, others could find themselves without access to the marketplace. >> reporter: now there is currently no case before the...

To force me to promote ideas inconsistent with my faith and the core of who i am. >> reporter: under public accommodation laws businesses open to all cannot deny services based on a customer's race, gender or sexual orientation. >> you can't define your service so you exclude an entire category of people. >> reporter: liberal justice elena kagan said gay couples want to buy the same services for wedding websites as straight couples. >> and the question is can a website designer say sorry, that's not my kind of marriage? >> reporter: smith contends her work is her personal artistic expression, ...

Enough to cover the lesbian website designer and the catholic calligrapher. no one on any side of any debate has to be compelled to express a message that violates their core convictions. >> justice samuel alito took that argument even further. >> if there's a black santa at the other end of the mall and he doesn't want to have his picture taken with a child who's dressed up in a ku klux klan outfit, that black santa has to do that? >> smith is in the business of expressive speech. she argues she should be able to choose the messages she promotes, an argument some seem to side with. >> it's no...

And raphael warnock and herschel walker spent monday making their final pitches to voters. thousands of people are still without power after an alleged gunfire attack on two electrical substations in rural north carolina. authorities say the attacks were intentional and targeted and the fbi has now joined the investigation. a website designer who does not want to work with same-sex couples has taken her case to the supreme court. the conservative justices seem sympathetic to her argument. cnn's jessica schneider has her story. >> reporter: the supreme court now poised to decide whether certa...

>> bill: next guest challenging a state law in colorado, an anti-discrimination law at the u.s. supreme court. the court heard oral arguments yesterday in the case involving religious and gays rights. lorie smith is a website designer. she joins us with her attorney. good morning to both of you. lorie, explain in shorthand here what you were presented with and what decision you made for your website. >> well, i want to design custom unique artwork and create and design custom artwork for weddings. i can't do that because colorado is censoring and compelling my speech and forcing me to create a...