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Three dozen corporations recently banded together to file an amicus brief in which they take a stand against religious liberty in a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court . The case concerns Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who declined to create a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his religious beliefs. In 2013, a lower court ruled that Phillips violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. The baker was then ordered by the state's civil rights commission to create a wedding cake for a same-sex “marriage” against his will.   In 2015 , the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the decision. Then the Colorado Supreme Court   refused to hear the case in July 2016 . Consequently, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), representing Phillips, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take it up. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case. In the lead-up to the court hearing,  37 corporations , organized by the LGBT-promoting Human Rights Camp

No matter how many times the leftist ACLU wants to compare LGBT activism to the blood-bought civil rights of black Americans , there is no comparison. Gay is  not  the new black. Jack Phillips, a Christian cake artist who owns  Masterpiece Cakeshop  in Lakewood, Colorado has run his business for years according to his religious convictions. He is a gentle, kind and loving soul. He serves  everyone , just not every event. In 2012, Jack politely declined to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding for Charlie Craig and David Mullins. They claimed “humiliation” and “discrimination”; the ACLU was on it like icing on…uhhhh…cake. Thankfully,  Alliance Defending Freedom  (ADF) came to Jack’s defense. Having no real substantive argument against someone’s freedom of expression and religious freedom, LGBT organizations decry the exercise of First Amendment rights as an act of modern-day Jim Crow. Cue the hijacking of the civil rights movement. Of course the  ACLU , the  New Yo

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on whether a Christian baker should be forced to go against his religious beliefs and create a same-sex “wedding” cake when asked to. The baker fighting for his right to not celebrate a same-sex “wedding” by creating a cake for it is Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado . In 2012, a same-sex couple asked Phillips to create a cake for their “wedding.” Phillips is a Christian who won’t bake cakes celebrating Halloween, divorce, or bachelor parties. He referred the couple to another baker who was willing to participate in their union. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , the couple pursued legal action against Phillips. Phillips and his staff were also ordered to undergo re-education and file quarterly “compliance” reports on their application of Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act for two years. In 2013, a lower court ruled that Phillips violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. In 2

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Wednesday challenging Michigan 's practice of allowing adoption agencies to spurn potential LGBT parents under the guise of religion ....Religious exemption laws let people, churches and sometimes corporations cite religious beliefs as a reason not to enforce a law — such as declining to marry a same-sex couple or letting state-funded foster agencies refuse to place kids with same-sex couples. The Michigan adoption law leads to “fewer options for children” when the pool of qualified adopters is diluted because of unreasonable legislation, ACLU lawyer Leslie Cooper said. “There is a desperate need for families. We need more families, not fewer.” Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed the state’s common sense bill into law in June 2015. The law in essence lets faith-based agencies say no to homosexuals and lesbians parents if saying yes violates the group’s religious or moral beliefs. The ACLU is hoping for a “clearer ruling” in court

The DoJ argues that a Denver cake shop owner could deny services to a same-sex couple, because religion. The Trump administration has been taking stances in various LGBT rights cases since the president took office and those stances have usually been against the LGBT community . And the Department of Justice’s most recent argument may just take the cake. The Department of Justice is taking the side of a Colorado baker who was sued by a same-sex couple for whom he refused to bake a cake. On Thursday, the Justice Department filed a brief defending the baker in the case, Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission , according to the New York Times . “Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a ceremony that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs invades his First Amendment rights ,” the Justice Department said in its brief. This decision falls in line with the Trump administration’s rapid shift from the Obama Administration ’s progressive wor

A Canadian civil rights commission has granted a Christian school the freedom to follow its own rules. The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) ruled that The Private Academy , an evangelical grade school, may turn down a lesbian guardian’s application for their adopted child to attend. The homosexual activists, who say they are Christian but do not go to church regularly, met with the school principal to get their ward admitted to a preschool program.  However, the Christian school — which does not receive government funding — has a moral code that requires families of students to attend a church and share the same biblical values the school advocates. After the principal said the couple’s same-sex “marriage” would clash with the school’s teachings, the lesbians sued for discrimination.   HRTO’s Jennifer Khurana determined that the school made “a complete defense to the allegations of discrimination. I agree.” The focus of the lawsuit is Section 18 of Canada ’s

On behalf of those Muslim and Christian communities whom we represent, we declare that we believe that there should be no change to the traditional definition of marriage as spelled by the 2004 Amendment incorporated into the Marriage Act 1961 . The amendment reads: “Marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life.” We are very concerned about the rush to introduce new legislation allowing for Same-Sex Marriage (“ SSM ”), which is wrong both in policy and in principle . It is wrong in policy because far-reaching changes should not be implemented in haste. Parliamentarians of Australia have a duty to lead the debate over SSM rather than opportunistically seeking to garner votes by jumping onto what seems to be an irresistible bandwagon. They should be encouraging people to reflect upon what marriage is all about, its parameters, its relationship to child-rearing and how children shall be raised outside of the institut

Sorry, guys, I don’t make cakes for same-sex weddings.” With that blunt comment, Jack Phillips , a baker who designs custom wedding cakes, sent two men out the door and set off a legal battle between religious liberty and gay rights that comes before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall. The Trump administration last week sided with Phillips and argued that decorating a wedding cake is a type of “expressive conduct,” similar to burning a flag or marching in a parade. If so, they say, the Constitution’s free-speech protection gives the baker, a devout Christian, the right to refuse to participate in the marriage celebration of two men. But Colorado has barred Phillips from making any more wedding cakes because he refuses to abide by its civil rights law. Since 2008, it has required public businesses to serve all customers equally and without regard to their sexual orientation. The state, allied with the American Civil Liberties Union , says this case is about discrimination, not the r