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Colorado’s high court rejects appeal of Christian ordered to bake gay ‘wedding’ cake

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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...

Supreme Court turns blind eye as lower court forces Christian to issue gay ‘marriage’ licenses

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The U.S. Supreme Court has officially become post-modern. Not only did it redefine marriage this summer, but Justice Kennedy 's majority opinion implied that religious liberty only applies to advocacy -- not the practice of religion in private and public. Now, the Court has made it clear that some religions deserve more liberty than others. Yesterday , it denied a stay of a lower court's decision   ordering a Christian clerk to violate her conscience by handing out marriage licenses for relationships that aren't marriage: The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' request for a stay in a judge's ruling, which orders her to issue marriage licenses. Davis will have to choose whether to issue marriage licenses Tuesday, defying her Christian conviction, or continue defying a federal judge who could fine her or send her to jail. So, according to the Supreme Court, people can advocate for their beliefs -- but they can't practice th...