Supreme Court turns down petition from Christian florist in same-sex wedding case
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The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a petition from a Christian florist who refused to create flower arrangements for a same-sex couple, declining for now to take another case asking when anti-discrimination laws must give way to religious convictions.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch indicated they would have accepted the case. But it requires four justices for a grant, and that means none of the court’s other three conservatives were willing to go along.
A unanimous Washington state Supreme Court found that the florist, Barronelle Stutzman, violated the Washington Consumer Protection Act and Washington Law Against Discrimination, a state civil rights law.
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