Washington court rules against florist in gay wedding case
Source: ABC News
By RACHEL LA CORTE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Feb 16, 2017, 3:07 PM ET
he Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding broke the state's antidiscrimination law, even though she claimed doing so would violate her religious beliefs.
A lower court had fined Barronelle Stutzman, a florist in Richland, Washington, for denying service to a gay couple in 2013, and ordered her to pay a $1,000 fine.
Stutzman argued that she was exercising her First Amendment rights. But the court held that her floral arrangements do not constitute protected free speech, and that providing flowers to a same-sex wedding would not serve as an endorsement of same-sex marriage.
"As Stutzman acknowledged at deposition, providing flowers for a wedding between Muslims would not necessarily constitute an endorsement of Islam, nor would providing flowers for an atheist couple endorse atheism," the opinion said.
Stutzman's lawyers immediately said they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the decision.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/washington-court-rules-florist-gay-wedding-case-45536146
Here's a link to the decision:
http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/916152.pdf
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