The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it would not take up a case over LGBT rights and religious liberty when it comes to same-sex weddings in a dispute brought by a florist.
The high court declined to hear Barronelle Stutzman’s case after she lost at the Washington Supreme Court when the state attorney general sued her for not providing flowers from her flower shop, Arlene’s Flowers, for a same-sex wedding.
Washington’s highest court concluded she could be forced to participate in the event despite her First Amendment claim that it ran afoul of her beliefs.
Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty law firm representing Ms. Stutzman, took the case to the justices in 2017, but it was remanded back to the lower courts for further consideration in 2018 after the justices ruled for Jack Phillips, a Christian baker, who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding in Colorado.
But after reconsidering the case, the Washington Supreme Court still ruled against Ms. Stutzman.
She took her case again to the justices, but on Friday they declined to weigh in on her legal battle.
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Justice Clarence Thomas would have agreed to hear the case.
It takes four justices to grant review.
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