{"id":779,"date":"2014-04-08T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=779"},"modified":"2014-04-08T07:07:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:07:58","slug":"scotus-rejects-photographers-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/779","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Rejects Photographer\u2019s Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court <a style=\"font-family: Calibri; line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2014\/04\/07\/elane_photography_scotus_declines_to_hear_appeal_in_new_mexico_case_involving.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&amp;mc_cid=aca10f4fc6&amp;mc_eid=8a55bd647d \">has refused to hear an appeal from Elaine Huguenin at Elane Photography <\/a> who claimed that her religious beliefs prevented her from photographing a same-sex couple\u2019s commitment ceremony. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Huguenin had violated the state\u2019s anti-discrimination laws &#8220;in the same way as if it had refused to photograph a wedding between people of different races.&#8221; SCOTUS\u2019 decision left this ruling in place. New Mexico Human Rights Act forbids &#8220;public accommodations&#8221; from discriminating based on a would-be customer&#8217;s sexual orientation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Elaine Huguenin at Elane Photography who claimed that her religious beliefs prevented her from photographing a same-sex couple\u2019s commitment ceremony. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Huguenin had violated the state\u2019s anti-discrimination laws &#8220;in the same way as if it had refused to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}