Colorado’s high court rejects appeal of Christian ordered to bake gay ‘wedding’ cake
The Colorado Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Christian baker accused of discrimination for declining to make a cake for a homosexual “wedding.” Attorneys for cake shop owner Jack Phillips are reviewing their options in the wake of the high court’s refusal Monday to review Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Craig. “We asked the Colorado Supreme Court to take this case to ensure that government understands that its duty is to protect the people’s freedom to follow their beliefs personally and professionally,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Jeremy Tedesco said in a statement , “not force them to violate those beliefs as the price of earning a living.” “Jack, who has happily served people of all backgrounds for years, simply exercised the long-cherished American freedom to decline to use his artistic talents to promote a message and event with which he disagrees, and that freedom shouldn’t be placed in jeo...