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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

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

Next Tuesday , a courageous and faithful Christian , Jack Phillips , will finally have his day in court to fight for his right to uphold his beliefs about God, about marriage and about fairness. Jack is a Christian baker and artist who has served his community in Colorado for over two decades, using his work to highlight his belief in God and the goodness of Jesus Christ . When asked by a gay couple to design a cake to celebrate their same-sex 'wedding,' Jack politely declined due to his religious beliefs , but offered to help the couple find another baker to assist them. Instead, the couple filed a complaint with the state of Colorado , which ruled he was guilty of "discrimination" and ordered him to start celebrating gay weddings, undergo a reeducation program and file quarterly compliance reports! We’ve produced an important new video that explains the critical nature of Jack's case, which is now before the US Supreme Court . Please watch it and then share

One of the most important religious liberty cases of modern times is presently before the U.S. Supreme Court . NOM's legal brief in the  Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado case was recently covered by  USA Today , which quoted directly from our submission to the Supreme Court: "The National Organization for Marriage...cites other instances in which the high court has protected the right to exclude speech. 'Newspapers cannot be forced to print messages from those they criticize,' the group says. 'Car owners cannot be forced to display political messages, children cannot be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance , parades cannot be forced to include other viewpoints, utilities cannot be forced to include brochures for consumer advocates in the utility's billing envelope, and government workers cannot be forced to even pay for the political speech of labor unions.'" This is the legal case where Jack Phillips , a devout Christian baker, who

Gay Couple as Cowboys on the Gay Pride 2005 in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a major religious liberties case involving Jack Phillips, a Christian baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple citing his religious beliefs . The apex court’s decision could change the way business owners treat same-sex couples based on their personal faith. The case, "Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission ," started in 2012 when the bakery owner Phillips declined to make a cake for a homosexual couple citing his own religious beliefs. The couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins , filed a discrimination lawsuit in Colorado state courts against the baker and they won. Phillips' refusal violated a Colorado  anti-discrimination law , the couple stated. However, Phillips argued the law violated his freedom of speech, expression and free exercise of religion , under the  First Amendment  

The Christian-owned bakers who refused to make a pro-gay marriage cake are being backed by customers who have helped their profits rise to £1.5million. Ashers bakery in Belfast was found to have breached foolish left wing immoral equality laws after declining to make a cake iced with the slogan 'Support Gay Marriage ' in 2014. And the family-run business was in the news again this week after refusing an online order for a cake decorated with the words 'Homosexual Marriage Rocks'. But the legal wrangle has not translated into financial damage yet - with the firm recording a £170,000 rise in profits last year, reported the Belfast Telegraph . The Supreme Court will this autumn consider a lower court's judgement that Ashers, which has seven outlets in Northern Ireland , was discriminatory. A two-day hearing for legal arguments has been listed for October over the case, which followed an order placed at its Belfast shop by Gareth Lee three years ago. Daniel McArt

Okay—stop me if you’ve heard this story before: A Christian couple opens a bakery where, until recently, the only thing they’re known for was the quality of their baked goods. Until one day a gay client demands that they perform a service that would violate their conscience. After the couple refuses, the would-be customer files a complaint against the bakers. The case winds up in the courts, where the Christian couple loses. It’s an all-too-familiar story, but this one has a few surprising twists. First—where it took place: the United Kingdom , specifically, Northern Ireland . Daniel and Amy McArthur run a bakery in Belfast called “ Ashers .” In May, 2014, a representative of a group called “QueerSpace,” which is, as the name suggests, an LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland, placed an order for a cake at Ashers. If the cake had simply been, say, a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, the story would have ended there. Ashers would have baked the cake and that

A popular bakery in Northern California is caught at the center of a heated debate on social media over a transgender “Ken doll cake” that it said it made for a customer. Freeport Bakery, a well-known business in Sacramento , posted a picture online nearly two weeks ago showing a special-ordered cake that depicted Ken wearing a puffy pink dress, flowery sash and a tiara. The cake triggered controversy on Facebook, with people calling it “truly disgusting” and claiming that the owners were putting their “morals n standards for sale.” “Naively, I guess I just thought this is a really cool cake, and look at how great they did with the butter cream,” Marlene Goetzeler, co-owner of the bakery, told Fox affiliate KTXL . “What’s wrong with a Ken cake?” In 1987, Walter and Marlene Goetzeler bought Freeport Bakery and grew it into a booming business, according to their website . Over the years, it has been named best bakery by Sacramento Magazine  readers. After Freeport Bakery posted th

The owner of an Ohio bakery reportedly canceled a woman’s birthday cake order after she discovered that the customer was in a same-sex marriage. Candice Lowe tells ABC 13 that she was on her honeymoon in Florida when she says she received a text message from LeGresha Fizer-Brown, who owns Toledo’s Take the Cake Bakery, nixing her order for her wife Amanda’s birthday cake. In the July 4 message, Fizer-Brown allegedly told Lowe that her business does “not do cakes for same-sex weddings or parties.” “Candice, I’m sorry…I just realized your [sic] in a same sex relationship,” Fizer-Brown reportedly wrote in the text message . “I wasn’t aware of this exactly until I saw your page.” The Lowes, who were married just two weeks ago, said they “just wanted to cry” when they received the text. Candice Lowe later posted the alleged message to her Facebook page, and a screenshot appears on the progressive news site, Peacock Panache . Bakeries and other wedding-related venues have become an