Jack Phillips

Colorado & anti-gay baker settle wedding cake discrimination cases

“The larger constitutional issues might well be decided down the road, but these cases will not be the vehicle for resolving them.”

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LGBTQ-friendly former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper announces presidential bid

"If all people are created equal, then by extension of law, logic, and love, every adult couple should also have the freedom to join in marriage," he said in 2014.

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This hate group lawyer is now a high-ranking Trump administration official

She has made a career of attacking LGBTQ rights, and now she has a top job at the Department of Justice.

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Hate groups from around the nation will meet to plot ways to harm LGBTQ people

The top leaders of hate groups will mingle with Republican politicians at the Value Voters Summit this weekend.

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Anti-LGBTQ baker sues civil rights commission after he refuses to serve a trans customer

Phillips believes the government is persecuting him for enforcing longstanding civil rights law that he has repeatedly broken.

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Jeff Sessions announces a ‘Religious Liberty Task Force’ to protect hate groups

Sessions made it clear that the task force would go after LGBTQ rights, especially when it comes to adoption.

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The Supreme Court cares about religious animus. Except when it doesn’t.

If the record in Masterpiece supports a finding of impermissible hostility, then the mountain of cruel statements from the president in the Muslim ban case surely do.

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This church sign is making waves in that antigay baker’s backyard

Evangelical Christians wouldn't know their loving savior if they sat next to him on the bus.

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From Jim Crow to gay cakes: The Trump administration’s war on civil rights

Democracy can only begin when those at the margins can experience what others take for granted.

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GOP lawmaker says businesses should be allowed to discriminate against black people

In a discussion of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the politician said that businesses should be able to turn anyone away.

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