{"id":580545,"date":"2021-07-02T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=580545"},"modified":"2021-07-02T21:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T01:36:27","slug":"justices-decline-to-hear-appeal-from-wash-florist-who-refused-to-service-gay-couple-over-religious-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justices-decline-to-hear-appeal-from-wash-florist-who-refused-to-service-gay-couple-over-religious-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Justices decline to hear appeal from Wash. florist who refused to service gay couple over religious beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustices-decline-to-hear-appeal-from-wash-florist-who-refused-to-service-gay-couple-over-religious-beliefs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=580545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2445188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2445188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barronelle Stutzman, center, a florist who was fined for denying service to a gay couple in 2013, holds a flower as she embraces a supporter after a hearing before Washington\u2019s Supreme Court in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo\/Elaine Thompson)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:21 PM PT \u2013 Friday, July 2, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a Washington state florist who refused service to a same-sex couple. The high court made the decision on Friday, after holding their verdict while they deliberated another religiously-motivated case.<\/p>\n<p>Barronelle Stutzman\u2019s appeal stemmed from a 2013 incident where she refused to make an arrangement for a same-sex couple\u2019s wedding by claiming it would go against her religious beliefs. The court announced the florist\u2019s refusal as a violation of an antidiscrimination law regarding sexual orientation. Stutzman was also sued by the couple for breaking consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On its second trip to the US Supreme Court, the Court decides against taking the Arlene&#8217;s Flowers case. There were three dissents. This case involved a florist sued by WA for civil rights violations for refusing to sell floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding. 1\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B9pexdXJzW\">pic.twitter.com\/B9pexdXJzW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shannon Kilpatrick (@ShannonKilpatri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShannonKilpatri\/status\/1411014142547300357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite several justice\u2019s desire to take on the case, the state court\u2019s ruling will remain in effect and force Stutzman to pay a $1,000 fine. The florist\u2019s lawyer argued the outcome of the appeal went against First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>This has been one of several current lawsuits around the U.S. regarding the refusal of service to members of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/chicago-officials-slam-mayor-lori-lightfoot-for-citys-rising-crime\/\">Chicago Officials Slam Mayor Lori Lightfoot For City\u2019s Rising Crime<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barronelle Stutzman, center, a florist who was fined for denying service to a gay couple in 2013, holds a flower as she embraces a supporter after a hearing before Washington\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}