New Mexico Supreme Court to hear photography case
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August 25, 2012
New Mexico: The New Mexico Supreme Court has agreed to review a case in which a Christian photographer refused to take pictures of a same-sex commitment ceremony in 2006 for two women because it conflicted with her Christian beliefs.[1]
Elaine Huguenin, the co-owner of Elane Photography, was fined around $7,000.00 by the Human Rights Commission in 2008, which deemed the photography company guilty of discrimination for sexual orientation. This decision was upheld in June by the New Mexico Court of Appeals and attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom for Elane Photography appealed this ruling.[1]
“We trust the New Mexico Supreme Court will agree because the government should not be allowed to force the photographer to promote a message that violates her conscience,”[1] said Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Jordan Lorence.
The chief clerk of the New Mexico Supreme Court, Joey D. Moya, sent a procedural notification of a schedule for briefs that must be filed with the New Mexico Supreme Court to both the plaintiff Vanessa Willock and the owners of Elane Photography.[1]
In a comment on the case, senior counsel Jordan Lorence further stated, “Right now, at this point in history, we’re seeing an attack on those who define marriage only as one man and one woman. We should protect all businesses, no matter what their beliefs are, from this kind of government intrusion to force them to promote messages they don’t agree with.”[2]
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