Colorado Supreme Court hears latest Masterpiece Cakeshop discrimination case
This time the bakery refused to bake a cake celebrating a trans woman’s birthday and journey of gender identity.
June 18, 2024
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This time the bakery refused to bake a cake celebrating a trans woman’s birthday and journey of gender identity.
He's disqualified because he took part in an insurrection, says the ruling, which Trump is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Cakemaker Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop now has to decide whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, or accept the ruling as it stands.Â
After three lower courts ruled he discriminated against a gay couple, Colorado baker Jack Phillips is hoping the fourth time's the charm, taking his case to the state's highest court.Â
The lead attorney in the 1996 Supreme Court case that overturned Colorado's antigay Amendment 2 says that John Roberts, Bush's pick to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, helped her win the case.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, which argued for a Colorado baker's antigay policy in the Supreme Court, has a long record of homophobic and transphobic activism.
A conservative group in Virginia said Tuesday it would oppose Supreme Court nominee John Roberts's confirmation because of his role in the 1996 Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans, which repealed an antigay amendment to the Colorado constitution
The decision makes Maine the second state to disqualify Trump from office, after the Colorado Supreme Court handed down its own stunning ruling that removed him from the ballot earlier this month.
Lorie Smith said she couldn’t design wedding websites out of fear of retaliation for her beliefs, but it turns out she designed at least one before making a legal challenge.
The court's conservative majority seemed to sympathize with a designer who argues she has a legal right to turn away same-sex couples who seek wedding websites.
A Colorado web designer says she will not provide wedding website creation services to same-sex couples.
The attorney had filed the lawsuit against the organization after the group said it had rejected his application for a job due to its code of conduct, which "excludes homosexual activity."
Trump's Justice Department says the baker has a First Amendment right to turn away same-sex couples who want wedding cakes.
The state's highest court ordered Denver to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples but did not address two other counties that have been doing the same.
Out Gov. Jared Polis signed the bills as 15 states block gender-affirming care for transgender people.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, questioning nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, asserted that with marriage equality, the Supreme Court created a right not in the Constitution.
Judges around the state are refusing to stop clerks in three counties from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite the state constitution's ban on same-sex marriage.
The press secretary said the president's devotion to so-called religious liberties extends to businesses hanging signs about refusing service to LGBT people.
HRC president Chad Griffin says Obama should nominate an out person for the job, and he has some suggestions.