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5 Dec 2017, 5:45 am by SHG
Would Phillips’ baking a cake make him complicit in supporting gay marriage, or would it just make him a baker? [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 4:21 am by Edith Roberts
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which the justices will consider whether the First Amendment bars Colorado from requiring a baker to create a cake for a same-sex wedding. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 8:48 am by Lyle Denniston
City officials had decided that they would provide equal benefits to city employees who were in a same-sex marriage as they did for employees in opposite-sex marriages. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 4:03 am by Edith Roberts
” At Casetext, David Boyle discusses the reply brief filed by the cakeshop last week, arguing that “under Petitioners’ ‘compelled speech’ theory of the case, bakers could quite possibly discriminate against interracial marriages and refuse to sell them a wedding cake, legally. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 4:11 am by Edith Roberts
” At Take Care, Jim Oleske pushes back against the argument, made in an amicus brief on behalf of the baker, that civil rights laws like Colorado’s are “constitutionally vulnerable because the state is ‘discriminating between squarely opposite sides on a deeply divisive moral issue’ and taking sides in a ‘culture war’” over marriage equality. [read post]
Here is a jurisprudential penumbra zone.In the US, the Supreme Court will soon decide whether requiring a baker to design and make a cake that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs about same-sex marriage violates the Free Speech or Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Whatever else one might say about Masterpiece’s claim, at least the baker was being asked by Colorado to do something that he found objectionable. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 4:20 am by Edith Roberts
Colorado Civil Rights Commission,  which asks whether the First Amendment bars Colorado from requiring a baker to create a cake for a same-sex wedding, in which he and the brief’s co-author Eugene Volokh argue that “the Free Speech Clause does not protect a baker’s right to refuse [the same-sex couple’s] request because baking cakes is conduct that is neither historically nor inherently a form of protected speech. [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 3:02 am by Cari Rincker
However, effective January 1, 2018, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act includes provisions providing for allocation of possession and responsibility of pets in a divorcing family. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 9:19 am
No one looks at a wedding cake and reflects, “the baker has blessed this union. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 4:25 am by Edith Roberts
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, arguing that “[t]he issue is not whether you support same-sex marriage or [the baker; t]he issue is whether you support artistic freedom. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 4:36 am by Timothy P. Flynn
" Colorado issued two court orders that found the baker's conduct violated the state's public accommodation law.In his brief filed with the SCOTUS, Phillips asserts that the Colorado law prevents him from earning a living through the creation of expressive pieces of art and prevents him from living out his religious beliefs freely in the public square. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 3:30 am by Sarah Barringer Gordon
The baker is represented by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund and the ACLU represents the couple. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 3:30 am by Sarah Barringer Gordon
The baker is represented by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund and the ACLU represents the couple. [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 4:27 am by Edith Roberts
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which the court will decide whether the First Amendment bars Colorado from requiring a baker to create a cake for a same-sex wedding, arguing that “[b]ecause [the baker]’s wedding cakes are custom works of art, the state of Colorado cannot force him to design those cakes to celebrate ideas about marriage that conflict with his faith. [read post]
10 Oct 2017, 4:29 pm by Tom Smith
If a coffee shop owner doesn't want to serve a group whose positions he finds disagreeable and offensive, is that subtantially different from a baker refusing to do work for a same-sex marriage he finds offensive? [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 4:18 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Atlantic, Garrett Epps finds echoes of past justices in the case, arguing that the modern democracy shaped by the court’s 1962 decision in Baker v. [read post]
25 Sep 2017, 4:14 am by Edith Roberts
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which the court will decide whether the First Amendment allows a state to require a Christian baker to create a cake for a same-sex wedding, is “the first major gay-rights case the high court has heard since it legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 8:00 am
If a baker can reject LGBTQ people because of who we are, then what about the mechanic, the florist, the doctor, the teacher? [read post]