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Colorado Supreme Court dodges constitutional question, dismisses latest Masterpiece Cakeshop case on procedural grounds
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The Colorado Supreme Court, by 4-3, declined on Tuesday to address the high-profile issue of a Christian baker’s refusal to make a cake for a customer celebrating a gender transition, instead concluding the case was not properly filed in the first place. Previously, a trial judge and the state’s Court of Appeals found Masterpiece Cakeshop, owned…
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Colorado justices explore limits of anti-discrimination law in Masterpiece Cakeshop appeal
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court explored on Tuesday the tension between LGBTQ customers’ ability to be free from discrimination in the marketplace and business owners’ competing right not to be forced to express messages that violate their conscience. During oral arguments, some justices noted the difficulty of disentangling customers’ protected characteristics, like race or…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear latest LGBTQ discrimination case against Masterpiece Cakeshop
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will decide whether a Lakewood cake maker violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when he declined to supply a cake to celebrate a customer’s gender transition, or if the First Amendment protected his refusal. The case involves a familiar name: Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose owner, Jack Phillips, was…
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Colorado bill to reimburse Masterpiece Cakeshop baker for losses fails
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An effort by a conservative Colorado House Republicans to find a way to force the state to reimburse Jack Phillips, the owner of Lakewood’s Masterpiece Cakeshop, for attorney fees and loss of business income failed to gain sympathy from a Democratic-controlled House committee Tuesday. House Bill 1081, sponsored by Republican Rep. Dave Williams of Colorado…
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Federal judge allows Masterpiece Cakeshop baker’s lawsuit against Colorado to proceed
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A U.S. District Court judge in Denver is allowing a lawsuit filed against the state of Colorado by Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips to move forward, and hinted that an injunction against the state could be in the works. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Senior Judge Wiley Y. Daniel wrote that the lawsuit,…
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Masterpiece Cakeshop baker back in court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
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Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds – a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court – argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again over his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition. Lawyers for…
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Lamborn wants Justice Dept. to investigate Colo. civil rights agency
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn on Thursday called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for what he calls its “anti-religious” bias in its dealings with Masterpiece Cakeshop baker Jack Phillips of Lakewood. The Colorado Springs Republican accused state civil rights officials of “an attempt to discredit (Phillips’) religious beliefs…
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Jack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakeshop in another dispute over alleged discrimination
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Jack Phillips, whose refusal to make a custom wedding cake for a gay couple went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, is back in the news again, with another discrimination complaint filed against the Lakewood baker. And Phillips and his attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom have returned fire with a lawsuit in federal…
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MARK HILLMAN | Hold government accountable — and call off the culture wars
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COMMENTARY: This is part of our series of contributed essays, “Imagine a Great Colorado.” See below for more. Colorado’s Western spirit has long embodied a live-and-let-live creed that respects personal freedom and preserves the citizens’ control over government, both firmly rooted in the Colorado Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Those principles exist in constant tension as…
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One Colorado says religious liberty task force will codify LGBTQ bias
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions aims to harm others using a proposed religious liberty task force, says One Colorado, the state’s largest advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Coloradans. “A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom,” Sessions said a Department of Justice…
