City Ordered to Pay $800,000 to Christian Photographer for Unconstitutional Ordinance
Facts Matter
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A Christian photographer in Kentucky was awarded $800,000 (in a case that lasted six years) because of unconstitutional demands placed on her by the city of Louisville.
Let's go through the specifics of the ordinance they had on the books, what it would have required her to do, and the legal precedents that forced it to be overturned.
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| 0:00.0 | A Christian photographer over in the state of Kentucky was just awarded $800,000 in a settlement |
| 0:06.2 | in a case that lasted well over six years because of the unconstitutional demands placed on her |
| 0:11.4 | by the city of Louisville. |
| 0:13.4 | Let me give you the backstory of this particular case. |
| 0:15.4 | If you happen to be in your 30s or older, then you likely remember Mr. Jack Phillips. |
| 0:20.0 | He was that Christian baker over in Colorado |
| 0:22.2 | who refused to make cakes celebrating same-sex marriages. And because of it, Jack and his bakery |
| 0:29.0 | were really put through the ringer during the Obama years. He was vilified in news reports. |
| 0:34.9 | There were constant protests outside of a store, and a gay couple spent five years |
| 0:40.1 | suing him only to lose at the U.S. Supreme Court. However, in their decision, the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 0:45.6 | basically they punted the actual underlying issue down the road because even though technically |
| 0:51.1 | they did rule in favor of Mr. Jack Phillips, they only based |
| 0:54.6 | their ruling on a technicality. They found that the local Colorado Commission, they showed |
| 0:58.8 | anti-religious bias against Mr. Phillips. Here was a summary of that decision and what it meant |
| 1:04.1 | for other cases moving forward. Quote, in a seven to two decision, the court held that the Colorado |
| 1:09.5 | Civil Rights Commission's conduct in |
| 1:11.4 | evaluating a cake shop owner's reasons for declining to make a wedding cake for a same-sex |
| 1:16.3 | couple violated the free exercise clause. The court explained that while gay persons and |
| 1:21.5 | same-sex couples are afforded civil rights protections under the laws and the Constitution, |
| 1:26.2 | religious and philosophical objections |
| 1:27.7 | to same-sex marriage are protected views and can also be protected forms of expression. |
| 1:32.4 | The Colorado law at issue in this case, which prohibited discrimination against gay people |
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