The city of Louisville, Kentucky, can’t bar a photographer from limiting her wedding photography business to opposite-sex couples or from explaining why her religious beliefs compel her to turn down same-sex wedding assignments, a federal district court ruled Tuesday.
Chelsey Nelson, a Christian photographer who specializes in photographing weddings, challenged the city ordinance that required her to create photographs and online blogs for same-sex weddings if she did so for those between a man and a woman.
The city’s public-accommodations “Fairness Ordinance” also banned her from publicly explaining her religious reasons for defining her wedding-photography service in that way.