{"id":216,"date":"2019-11-24T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=216"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:08","slug":"shop-owner-has-constitutional-right-to-refuse-to-print-gay-pride-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/11\/24\/shop-owner-has-constitutional-right-to-refuse-to-print-gay-pride-t-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop owner has constitutional right to refuse to print gay pride T-shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An appellate state court in Kentucky has held that the first amendment gives a shop owner the right to refuse to print gay pride T-shirts for an organization espousing views the shop owner does not hold.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/becketnewsite\/Hands-on-Originals-ruling.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Lexington Fayette Urban County Human Rights Comm&#8217;n v. Hands On Originals<\/a>, 2017 WL 2211381 (Ky. Ct. App. 2017),\u00a0<em>aff&#8217;d,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/kentucky\/supreme-court\/2019-2017-sc-000278-dg.pdf?ts=1572530739\">Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Comm&#8217;n v. Hands On Originals,<\/a>\u00a02019 WL 5677638 (Ky. 2019), The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed, explaining that the public accommodations law protects individuals alone and confers no rights on organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/religious-freedom\/\" rel=\"tag\">Religious Freedom<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/sexual-orientation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sexual Orientation<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appellate state court in Kentucky has held that the first amendment gives a shop owner the right to refuse to print gay pride T-shirts for an organization espousing views the shop owner does not hold.\u00a0Lexington Fayette Urban County Human Rights Comm&#8217;n v. Hands On Originals, 2017 WL 2211381 (Ky. Ct. App. 2017),\u00a0aff&#8217;d,\u00a0Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Comm&#8217;n v. Hands On Originals,\u00a02019 WL 5677638 (Ky. 2019), The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed, explaining that the public accommodations law protects individuals alone and confers no rights on organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law","category-religious-freedom","category-sexual-orientation"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}