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https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/ky-wedding-photographer-blogger-challenges-censorship-of-her-beliefs (https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/ky-wedding-photographer-blogger-challenges-censorship-of-her-beliefs)
KY wedding photographer, blogger challenges censorship of her beliefs
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Kentucky entrepreneur who specializes in photographing, editing, and blogging about weddings filed suit in federal court Tuesday to challenge a city law that forces her to use her artistic talents to promote same-sex wedding ceremonies if she photographs and blogs about weddings between one man and one woman.
The Louisville law also forbids Chelsey Nelson and her studio, Chelsey Nelson Photography, from publicly explaining to clients and potential clients through her studio’s own website or social media sites the religious reasons why she only celebrates wedding ceremonies between one man and one woman. Louisville considers such “communications†as indicating that services will be denied or that someone’s patronage would be “objectionable, unwelcome, unacceptable, or undesirable†because of sexual orientation.
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The lawsuit is known in legal circles as a “pre-enforcement challenge,†which allows citizens to challenge a law that threatens their rights before the government enforces it against them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit and the Arizona Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of artists and filmmakers who brought similar pre-enforcement challenges against laws like Louisville’s. ADF attorneys are asking the court to halt enforcement of the law against Nelson and her business while her lawsuit proceeds.