07/01/2023
As a creative professional, I’m confounded by the seeming shallowness of this entire venture. Ms. Smith had not been asked to create a same-sex wedding site; she simply didn’t like the idea of ever being asked. There are plenty of legitimate ways to sidestep a client with whom you’d rather not work without publicly shunning an entire segment of the population. But clearly the shunning was the whole point. So it’s my sincere hope that as a result Ms. Smith has dramatically limited her own client base, and that the hill on which she decided to plant her "We don't serve your kind" banner proves to be pitiably small.
I’m equally confounded on a personal level. One assumes Ms. Smith’s religious objection to same-sex marriage is based on Leviticus 20:13. Yet photos of her on her website clearly shows her numerous tattoos, something expressly forbidden in Leviticus 19:28—speaking again to the apparent shallowness of not only the effort, but also the person behind it.
The case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, involved a designer who wants to make wedding websites in Colorado and came amid rising public approval of gay marriage.
