Tag: public accommodations

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...

A lesbian couple says a restaurant in O’Fallon, Missouri refused to host their wedding rehearsal dinner upon learning that the soon-to-be-spouses are both women. Mindy Rackley and Kendall Brown had planned on holding their rehearsal dinner at Madison’s Café — a restaurant that serves, pasta, sandwiches and dessert — because it had been the favorite restaurant of Rackley’s father before he died tw0-and-a-half years ago. However, the restaurant wasn’t welcoming. Brown told Newsweek, “My mom had made the reservations for us...