"You must publish these photos"
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https://freebeacon.com/courts/christian-photographer-files-lawsuit-against-ny-nondiscrimination-law/
Emilee Carpenter filed a lawsuit against New York attorney general Letitia James (D.) over state nondiscrimination statutes that Carpenter said compel her to violate her religious beliefs about traditional marriage by making her publicize photos of same-sex weddings on her website. The laws require her to create photograph collections on her website celebrating same-sex weddings because she celebrates opposite-sex weddings. Violating the laws could result in tens of thousands of dollars in fines, the state taking away her business license, or even jail time.
The statutes also forbid Carpenter from publishing any sort of editorial stance explaining her religious beliefs about marriage on her website. Carpenter said in an interview that her beliefs are inseparable from her work as a wedding photographer and that the laws are violating her First Amendment rights.
"My faith has been really integral to me as a person but also to my business and the way I operate it and the artwork I create," Carpenter said. "My faith is really the lens through which I view my art."
"Essentially the only options New York state has left me are to violate my faith, violate the law, or to close down my business," she said. "All artists should be free to choose the messages they promote."
The lawsuit, filed in a district court in New York, seeks to have the court declare that the nondiscrimination laws are unconstitutionally vague and violate First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
"These laws do not simply dictate what [Carpenter] does; they dictate what she says," the lawsuit states. "Emilee is already willing to work with clients no matter who they are, including those in the LGBT community. But not satisfied with equal treatment, New York officials demand ideological purity—that Emilee violate her conscience by professing the state’s approved view about marriage."
The legal clash comes as courts reckon with tensions between expanding nondiscrimination law and the rights of religious believers. James's office did not respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
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Why does this even have to be a religion thing?
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Why does this even have to be a religion thing?
@lufins-dad said in "You must publish these photos":
Why does this even have to be a religion thing?
Because that's about the only way she has to legally keep from bending the knee to the priests of Baal.
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@jolly said in "You must publish these photos":
@lufins-dad said in "You must publish these photos":
Why does this even have to be a religion thing?
Because that's about the only way she has to legally keep from bending the knee to the priests of Baal.
But that’s the thing... Her for hire services are shooting pictures and providing those pictures to her client. She does so.
Beyond that, her contract for hire probably has a clause giving her permission to publish any of these photos on her webpage with the clients s permission. That gives her sole discretion to chose which pictures she wants to publish. That’s her right as a business owner and is not a part of the services she was contracted to perform. She wasn’t hired to publish their pictures. End of story.
