Issues injunction while case involving photographer develops
By Bob Unruh
The Supreme Court has ruled several times in recent years that state governments cannot impose their religious ideology on business operators and require them to abide by, and promote, those beliefs.
Those decisions came from the insistence of Colorado officials that business owners there promote the LGBT lifestyle choices or not do business in the state.
Both times, Colorado lost at the high court, including once when the state’s officials were criticized for their open “hostility” to Christianity.
But the message is getting through, as a judge hearing a case involving a New York photographer ordered to violate her Christian faith in order to do business there has issued an injunction stopping the state’s attack in its tracks.
A report at Townhall explains the development:
“U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. of the District Court for the Western District of New York granted Emilee Carpenter, the photographer, a preliminary injunction shielding her from being compelled to violate her religious beliefs.”