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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

October 19, 2022

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*?**Paxton Fights to Protect Religious Freedom of Couple Being Forced?*?

*to Participate in Wedding That Violates Faith*?

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AUSTIN ??Attorney General Paxton has joined an Oklahoma-led cert-stage amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear "Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries" and protect the religious liberty of a couple being targeted for their faith.???

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The amicus brief defends a couple who declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding and were then adjudged to have violated Oregon?s public-accommodation law. The Constitution protects individuals from being coerced against their will to use their artistic gifts and talents, such as designing and crafting a wedding cake, to participate in a ceremony that violates their religious beliefs. To force a faithful Christian cake-maker to participate in a same-sex wedding against his faith is a violation of the First Amendment?s guarantee of religious freedom.???

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?In sum, if our First Amendment?s religion clauses prohibit a graduating high school senior from being compelled to participate in prayers through standing or sitting silently, surely they also protect citizens from being compelled to participate in religious ceremonies in a much more active and artistic manner,? the brief states. ?Recognizing this truth would enable the protection of a ?good faith? belief held by ?reasonable and sincere people here and throughout the world? contemplated by this Court in "Obergefell".??

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To read the full brief, click here [ [link removed] ].?

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