LISA KEEN | Keen News Servicelisakeen@me.com On the last day of the 2020-21 session, the U.S.
Supreme issued relief and worry for the LGBT community. On the relief side, the court on July 1 indicated it would not hear the appeal of a florist who wanted to deny service to a same-sex couple getting married.
The case, Arlene’s Flowers v. Washington, purported to be the “ideal vehicle” for resolving the original question skirted in Masterpiece v.
Colorado. In Masterpiece, in 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 in favor of a baker who refused to sell wedding cakes for a same-sex wedding because, he said, to do so violated his religious beliefs.