Colorado Website Designer Asks Supreme Court to Affirm Religious Freedom

Lorie Smith, owner of 303 Creative, is a website designer seeking Supreme Court protection of her First Amendment rights. Screen shot from the web site of the Alliance Defending Freedom

A Colorado website designer is asking the Supreme Court to accept her appeal of a lower-court decision depriving her of the right to conduct her business according to her religious beliefs.

Attorneys for Lorie Smith, the owner and sole employee of 303 Creative, submitted a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court on Sept. 24, asking the justices to overturn a decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, which held that Colorado officials can “force [Lorie] to create custom websites that [she] otherwise would not.”