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Problem:Appeal Filed to State Supreme Court in Arlene's Flowers Case 
  
 The Alliance Defending Freedom, the non-profit legal organization representing Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene's Flowers, has filed an appeal to the Washington State Supreme Court. 
  
 In a statement, the Alliance Defending Freedom says Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the ACLU have sent a message to the people to surrender religious liberty and freedom of speech or face personal and professional ruin. 
  
 In February, a Benton County Superior Court judge ruled Stutzman violated the state's consumer protection act when she refused back in 2013 to provide flowers for a same-sex couple's wedding based on her religoius beliefs. 
  
 Stutzman was also fined $1,000. |||||  
  
 The author at her flower shop. (The Alliance Defending Freedom) 
  
 I’ve been a florist in Richmond, Wash., for more than 30 years. In that time, I’ve developed close relationships with many of my clients. 
  
 One of my favorites was Rob Ingersoll. Ingersoll came in often and we’d talk. Like me, he had an artistic eye. I’d try to create really special arrangements for him. I knew he was gay, but it didn’t matter — I enjoyed his company and his creativity. 
  
 Then he asked me to create the floral arrangements for his wedding. I love Rob, and I’d always been happy to design for his special days. But there’s something different about a wedding. 
  
 Every person in the creative professions regularly has to make decisions about where they lend their artistic talents and which events they will participate in. For me, it’s never about the person who walks into the shop, but about the message I’m communicating when someone asks me to “say it with flowers.” 
  
 I was raised Christian. In my religious tradition, marriage is a sacred religious ceremony between a man, a woman and Christ. It’s a covenant with the church. To participate in a wedding that violates those principles violates the core of my faith. 
  
 When Rob asked me, I thought about it carefully. I talked over the decision with my husband, and I prayed. But ultimately I know I had to stay true to my faith. I couldn’t do it. 
  
 When I told Rob, I felt terrible that I couldn’t share this day with him, as I’d shared so many with him before. I took his hands and said, “I’m sorry I can’t do your wedding because of my relationship with Jesus Christ.” Rob said he understood, and that he hoped his mom would walk him down the aisle, but he wasn’t sure. We talked about how he got engaged and why they decided to get married after all these years. He asked me for the names of other flower shops. I gave him the names of three floral artists that I knew would do a good job, because I knew he would want something very special. We hugged and he left. |||||
Solution:
"I'm sorry I can't do your wedding because of my relationship with Jesus Christ." That's how florist Barronelle Stutzman describes the way she gently broke the news to one of her favorite clients that she wouldn't be able to do the flowers for his wedding—even though she had made "really special" arrangements for him before. The issue, as the owner of Arlene's Flowers in Richland, Wash., explains in a Washington Post opinion piece: Rob Ingersoll is gay, and taking part in such an event would "violate the core of my [Christian] faith." Ingersoll and his partner, Curt—as well as the state of Washington—have sued Stutzman, who says she was totally floored, considering what she described as a "close relationship" with Ingersoll (she says they hugged after she refused to take the job). While "we've always heard that same-sex marriage would never affect anyone aside from the same-sex couples who wanted to be married," writes Stutzman, "a judge recently told me that my freedom to live and work according to my beliefs about marriage expired the day same-sex marriage became the law in my state." Stutzman has now taken on that judge's ruling: She recently filed an appeal with the Washington State Supreme Court after the judge's February decision that she ran afoul of the state's consumer protection act with her 2013 refusal, KVEW notes. "The government is telling me I can only be a faithful Christian within the four walls of my church," she writes. "What would Rob and Curt say if the government told them they could only be who they are in their own homes?" Read Stutzman's entire take.