Story highlights The Larsens are trying to break into the wedding industry

The suit challenges the Minnesota Human Rights Act

(CNN) The owners of a Minnesota video production company have filed a lawsuit, saying they shouldn't be forced to shoot same-sex weddings.

"Creative professionals don't surrender their freedom of speech and freedom from coercion when they choose to make a living with their art," Carl and Angel Larsen told CNN.

The Larsens, owners of Telescope Media Group, are trying to break into the wedding industry, but only heterosexual weddings. They claim that a state law that bars them from refusing same-sex couples as clients would cause them to violate their religious beliefs about marriage.

"We want everyone to be free to create and free to express themselves in a way that is consistent with their beliefs."

The federal lawsuit challenges the Minnesota Human Rights Act, a state law prohibiting discrimination in the state based on race, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, or disability.

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