She has standing because the Colorado law kept her from doing what she wanted to do with her business, i.e., branch into weddings.
Everyone thinks this is such an easy issue when it is far from easy. Whether you like it or not, the freedom to practice your religion is a Constitutional right.
[quote] Congress SHALL MAKE NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF . . .
If you're going to curtail it then there needs to be an overriding state interest like no mushroom wafers given to children at your ceremony.
I have no idea how the COurt will rule but the argument they are porffering is that the refusal is not based on the status of the people (gay) bit on what specific service they are requesting.
There is another case in the courts where a service provider (maybe another bakery) is refusing to provide service to celebrate a transition.
"The Lakewood baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple's wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state's anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday urged Colorado's appeals court — largely on procedural grounds — to overturn last year's ruling in a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman.
The woman, Autumn Scardina, called Phillips' suburban Denver cake shop in 2017 requesting a birthday cake that had blue frosting on the outside and was pink inside to celebrate her gender transition. At trial last year, Phillips, a Christian, testified he did not think someone could change genders and he would not celebrate “somebody who thinks that they can.”
"Scardina, an attorney, attempted to order her cake on the same day in 2017 that the Supreme Court announced it would hear Phillips’ appeal in the wedding cake case. Scardina testified she wanted to “challenge the veracity” of Phillips statements that he would serve LGBT customers.
Before filing suit, Scardina first filed a complaint against Phillips with the state and the civil rights commission, which found probable cause that Phillips had discriminated against her. Phillips then filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado, accusing it of a “crusade to crush” him by pursuing the complaint."