Masterpiece Cakeshop
Colorado baker loses appeal over transgender birthday cake
By Colleen Slevin — January 27, 2023
DENVER (AP) — Jack Phillips maintains the cakes he creates are a form of speech and plans to appeal.
Supreme Court to revisit LGBTQ rights – this time with a wedding website designer, not a baker
By Charles J. Russo — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — 303 Creative v. Elenis gives SCOTUS another chance to set precedent about what happens when First Amendment freedoms come at a cost to civil rights.
A religious liberty quiz shows readers favor the separation of church and state
By Mark Silk — October 25, 2021
(RNS) — Madison and Jefferson would be pleased.
Supreme Court hears case pitting religious freedom against LGBTQ rights
By Yonat Shimron — November 4, 2020
(RNS) — In Fulton v. Philadelphia, a more conservative Supreme Court is now considering whether foster and adoption agencies that oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds may be exempted from serving those couples.
How do we weigh a floral designer’s dignity and freedom against state coercion?
By Kristen Waggoner — March 18, 2020
(RNS) — A compassionate response to differences in our beliefs is what our society needs, not government officials more interested in shaming those with whom they disagree.
Faith-based bills advance in Texas in defiance of ‘almighty dollar’
By Max B. Baker — April 10, 2019
(RNS) — Some faith and business leaders oppose a proposal that they say would let Texans use their faith as a shield to deny services as mundane as plumbing or towing a car.
The end of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case comes with a whimper
By Mark Silk — March 13, 2019
(RNS) — The door is still open to a decision that would force bakers to provide cakes for same-sex nuptials if they want to stay in business.
Colorado, baker end legal spat over transgender woman’s cake
By Kathleen Foody — March 7, 2019
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds and state officials said Tuesday that they would end a separate legal fight over his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Absent an imam, Domineque Ray’s execution by Alabama disenfranchises Muslims
By Megan Goodwin — February 13, 2019
(RNS) — The American legal system's anti-Islam problem might be more accurately seen as a pro-Christianity problem.
Colorado baker who refused to make cake for gays sues again
By Yonat Shimron — August 15, 2018
DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips allege in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday (Aug. 14) that Colorado is on a "crusade to crush" Phillips because of his religious beliefs.
Labor Department bolsters religious exemptions from nondiscrimination laws
By Yonat Shimron — August 14, 2018
(RNS) — The directive is yet another sign of the Trump administration’s determination to accommodate people of faith, even if it means letting them refuse to hire LGBT people.
Poll suggests religious freedom push is having an effect
By Yonat Shimron — August 6, 2018
(RNS) — Businesses owned by religious families are refusing to provide services to LGBT couples. Nearly a majority of Americans say that's OK.
Seeing threat to religious freedom, Jeff Sessions announces special task force
By Yonat Shimron — July 30, 2018
(RNS) — Sessions said the task force was needed because a dangerous movement was 'eroding our great tradition of religious freedom.'
The lessons of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case
By Mark Silk — June 6, 2018
(RNS) — For culture warriors on both ends of the spectrum.
Justices hand down narrow ruling for Christian baker in wedding cake case
By Jack Jenkins — June 4, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian baker in Colorado who refused to design a cake for a couple's same-sex wedding, a controversial case that was widely seen as a standoff between claims of religious liberty and LGBTQ rights.
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