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Another Photographer Is Taking a Stand for Freedom — This Time in Kentucky

When Julea Ward walked into the room of professors from the counseling department, she hoped to find more tolerance than she’d received from her counseling supervisor at Eastern Michigan University. She was wrong.

In 2006, Elaine Huguenin, a wedding photographer in New Mexico, received an inquiry from Vanessa Wilcox to photograph her same-sex commitment ceremony. Elaine respectfully declined. She and her husband, Jonathan, couldn’t in good conscience use their artistic talents to tell the story of a ceremony that conflicts with their faith.

As “one of America's most efficient and dependable” manufacturers and wholesale distributors of HVAC sheet metal products and equipment, you’d think that the government would want to encourage and protect family-owned, successful companies like Hercules Industries.