A long-brewing clash between two recent lines of Supreme Court precedent—one extending legal equality to LGBT individuals, the other elevating rights of conscience and expression above secular government interests—reaches a head in this case from Littleton, Colo. State law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, but 303 Creative, a web-design company, asserts a federal free-speech right to refuse commissions related to same-sex weddings. In the 1960s, the Supreme Court rejected religious belief in racial segregation as grounds for exemption from complying with civil rights laws. Today’s conservative justices have said the law should respect those who refuse complicity in same-sex marriage because they adhere to a traditional religious view that only heterosexuals may marry.