jack phillips
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Colorado politicos react to Trump’s pick of Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
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k.vineys President Trump’s selection of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court brought swift yet predictable reactions from Colorado politicos Monday night. Kavanaugh would succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered a moderate swing vote on the high court. The nominee’s rulings in the lower courts suggest a move to the right for the Supreme Court.…
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Colorado gets 2 dozen new laws, new budget Sunday
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From squatters to swatters and $29 billion, the Colorado state budget and 25 laws take effect Sunday. They are the products of the 120-day legislative session that ended in May, when lawmakers passed 432 rules and regulations – about 60 percent of those introduced after the session began in January – and Gov. John Hickenlooper…
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‘I wish you knew Jack. I think you’d really like him’
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Jack Phillips – the man at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court’s hotly debated ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop – is a good, decent, and honorable man. You likely won’t discover that if you google Jack or his case. Instead, you’ll all too often find unflattering portrayals based on ugly stereotypes about people of faith. Nothing…
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SLOAN | Supreme Court’s ruling was narrow — and properly so
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It is a good thing that the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Masterpiece Bakery case was not really intended to put any part of the underlying argument to rest, because it certainly did not. What it did do was jerk the reins on institutionalized anti-religious bias and exhibit rare and welcome self-restraint on the part of…
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Couple at center of Masterpiece Cakeshop case speak out
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It’s been a long and tiring Monday for Charlie Craig and David Mullins. The couple whose civil rights fight led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of the baker who refused them a wedding cake has spent the day at the office of Americans for Civil Liberties, which represented them in the six-year-long…
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What Masterpiece ruling means for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission
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Monday’s U. S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Lakewood baker Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop focused on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, whose action against Phillips over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple was overturned by the high court. The narrowly focused Supreme Court ruling itself is likely…
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Hickenlooper signs bill reauthorizing Colo. civil rights agency
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Surrounded by more than a hundred supporters, civil rights commissioners and the staff of Colorado’s civil rights agency outside the state Capitol, Gov. John Hickenlooper Tuesday signed into law the bill that keeps the agency on course for the next nine years. House Bill 1256 reauthorizes both the Division of Civil Rights and the Colorado…
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Bill to allow LGBTQ discrimination by adoption agencies fails in Senate
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A measure that would have allowed Colorado faith-based adoption agencies to discriminate based on religious beliefs failed to clear the state Senate Tuesday morning. Senate Bill 241 died on a voice vote in the Senate on second reading, with just a few votes in favor and a loud chorus of “no’s” against. A later recorded…
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Civil rights commission up for dogfight in Senate committee Wednesday
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Wednesday’s biggest dogfight at the state Capitol is likely to be over House Bill 1256, the measure to reauthorize the state’s Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The bill is scheduled for the Senate Judiciary Committee at 1:30 p.m. The measure cleared the House on March 21 on a 36-26 vote. Despite…
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House panel rejects what some called an Amendment 2 repeat
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DENVER – A bill many feared would take Colorado back to its 1992 reputation as the “hate state” failed in a state House of Representatives committee Tuesday night on a party-line vote. House Bill 1206 would have allowed those with “sincerely-held religious beliefs” to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals, according to witnesses who testified on the…
