Tag: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
The Supreme Court boots antigay religious discrimination case back to lower court
Today the Supreme Court punted on a case that could’ve decided whether the U.S. Constitution’s “religious freedom” clause gives Christian business owners have the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people – even when state law explicitly forbids it.
The case was Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, which involves an Oregon bakery, Sweetcakes by Melissa, whose operators, Melissa and Aaron Klein, were fined $135,000 by the state for refusing to serve Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, a same-sex couple...
Masterpiece Cakeshop baker sued for discrimination again. It’s not a wedding cake this time.
Jack Phillips, the anti-gay owner of Colorado‘s Masterpiece Cakeshop, is being sued yet again for his refusal to bake a cake for a member of the LGBTQ community. But this time it isn’t a gay wedding cake he has refused to bake — it’s a cake celebrating someone’s gender transition.
The story behind this latest lawsuit has a little slightly complicated legal history, but it all starts in June 2017 when Colorado lawyer Autumn Scardina called the Masterpiece Cakeshop asking...