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BREAKING: Supreme Court will decide if civil rights laws have broad religious exemptions
The Supreme Court will consider whether a baker who objects to same-sex marriage can refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
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Is Neal Gorsuch the reason Supreme Court keeps delaying LGBTQ rights case?
The battle over a wedding cake is seen as a key test of religious freedom vs. the rights of LGBTQ Americans – and the Supreme Court just punted the case again.
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Colorado baker takes gay wedding cake case to the U.S. Supreme Court
The Colorado baker claims that being forced to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples violates his right to freedom of speech.
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Baker who refused wedding cake for gay couple files appeal in state Supreme Court
Attorneys for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, filed the appeal Friday. They argue the government shouldn’t force Phillips to violate his Christian beliefs.
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Court rules on wedding cake discrimination case
Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, declined to make a cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins in 2012.
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Religious beliefs, gay rights clash in court case over same-sex couple’s wedding cake
A case that tests the boundaries of religious freedom and gay rights came to the Colorado Court of Appeals on Tuesday, with a suburban Denver baker urging judges not to force him to make cakes for same-sex couples because it would violate his beliefs.
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Cake wars: Bakeries serve up tension between LGBT rights, religious objections
A pair of Colorado cases – locally dubbed the “Cake Wars” – have added a new twist to the fight over LGBT discrimination and the “religious freedom” debate playing out across the U.S.
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Colo. baker appeals order that he provide wedding cakes for gay couples
DENVER — A Lakewood, Colo., baker is appealing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s order that he prepare wedding cakes for same-sex couples. Jack Phillips on Wednesday asked the Court of Appeals to reverse the May ruling by the Civil Rights Commission. Phillips was sued by a same-sex couple after he refused to make a cake to celebrate their wedding in 2012.
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Colo. civil rights panel: Baker must make cakes for same-sex ceremonies
DENVER — Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission on Friday ordered a baker to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, finding his religious objections to the practice did not trump the state’s anti-discrimination statutes.
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The clash over changing social mores: How a wedding cake became a cause
The encounter at Jack Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop lasted less than a minute. Phillips stepped out from behind the counter in his small, pastry-crammed shop to meet customers Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins. They told him they wanted a cake to celebrate their own marriage…