Supreme Court declines case of WA florist who refused to sell to same-sex wedding
The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a florist in Richland, Wash., who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding.
The saga of the case against Arlene’s Flowers has been a lengthy one, to say the least.
In 2017, the state Supreme Court ruled against the Richland florist, who had refused to sell flowers for gay couple’s wedding. That case was then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which — in light of a similar case against a Colorado baker — kicked it back to the state level earlier this year for what many thought would be a final ruling. That ruling was issued almost verbatim from the one in 2017 — the court stood by what it said the first time.
The Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously that state courts did not act with animosity toward religion when they ruled florist Barronelle Stutzman broke the state’s anti-discrimination laws by refusing on religious grounds to provide flowers for the wedding of Rob Ingersoll and Curt Freed, the Associated Press reports.
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