Judge: Videographer's gay wedding ban is like a 'White Applicants Only' sign
BY AVERY ANAPOL - 09/22/17 10:57 AM EDT
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the case of Minnesota wedding videographers fighting for their right to deny service to same-sex customers.
In his ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge John Tunheim said the language on the couple’s website, which stated that the videographers would not shoot wedding videos for same-sex couples, was “akin to a ‘White applicants only’ sign.”
"Posting language on a website telling potential customers that a business will discriminate based on sexual orientation is part of the act of sexual orientation discrimination itself," Tunheim wrote, according to the Star-Tribune.
“As conduct carried out through language, this act is not protected by the First Amendment."
Carl and Angel Larsen filed a lawsuit in December 2016, alleging that a provision in Minnesota’s Human Right Act, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, denied them their artistic and religious freedom.
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