The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a challenge from a Washington State florist who declined to create an arrangement for a same-sex wedding, …
The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a challenge from a Washington State florist who declined to create an arrangement for a same-sex wedding, the latest development in a long running dispute over LGBTQ rights. The court refused to hear the case without comment, as is its usual practice. Three conservative associate justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, said they would have taken the case. The high court’s decision not to take the case leaves in place a Washington State Supreme Court ruling against the florist. The decision comes days after the court handed down a unanimous decision concluding that a Catholic foster agency in Philadelphia could decline to screen same-sex couples as potential parents on religious grounds because the city’s anti-discrimination regulations were not applied equally to religious and secular entities.
