The Supreme Court of the states on Friday won the case of a web creator from the state of Colorado who refused to create websites for the weddings of gay couples, reported AFP and EFE agencies, quoted by Agerpres.

Companies whose services have creative value can invoke free speech in refusing to provide a service that conflicts with their own values, reasoned the nine-judge US Supreme Court — six conservatives and three progressives.

According to the US Constitution, free speech means that “people are free to think and say what they want, not what the government requires them to do,” says conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch. Or, he adds, the state of Colorado violated that principle with a 2008 law that prohibits salespeople from turning away customers because of their sexual orientation.

This law has already been challenged by a Christian pastry chef who refused to make a cake for a gay couple, and the Supreme Court also upheld it in 2018, but the verdict then was based on a technicality rather than a principle. .

Recently, web creator Lori Smith also went to the Supreme Court, complaining about a law that she claimed required her to act against her own Christian beliefs, and this time the Supreme Court considered the arguments with the general principles in mind.

Progressive justices, in the minority on the Supreme Court, opposed the verdict that gave justice to the web creator. Thus, Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the fact that, for the first time in history, the Supreme Court gave a company the constitutional right “to refuse to provide services to members of a social minority.”