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It seems you will get your wish Printsmith.PrintSmith wrote: As expected, no Supreme Court case to cite on the very issue being debated here. Imagine my surprise . . .
Colorado baker to go before US Supreme Court
A Colorado case to be heard by US Supreme Court next week could adjust the balance between gay rights and the rights of religious people who believe homosexuality to be sinful.
Brandon Rittiman, KUSA 10:18 PM. MST December 01, 2017
LAKEWOOD - A Colorado case to be heard by US Supreme Court next week could adjust the balance between gay rights and the rights of religious people who believe homosexuality to be sinful.
The dispute happened five years ago in a small strip mall bakery in Lakewood called Masterpiece Cakeshop.
Colorado has what's called a "public accommodation" law. It's the same law that bans restaurants from refusing to seat you because of the color of your skin, only Colorado's version also protects sexual orientation.
The state civil right's commission came down on the side of the couple.
And that decision is the subject of this lawsuit: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
The cake shop lost at the state court of appeals. The Colorado supreme court didn't want to hear it. They let that ruling stand.
But the US Supreme court is interested and took the case. Its decision could go beyond Colorado.
The oral arguments start 8 a.m. Colorado time on Tuesday and then we could wait a while for a ruling.
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Colorado Politics 21 min ago
Read on: www.coloradopolitics.com/news/masterpiec...81-672b6ac558c3.htmlThe state of Colorado has agreed to settle its legal dispute with Masterpiece Cakeshop and its owner, Jack Phillips, over the shop's refusal to make a custom cake for a transgender woman, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced.
The two sides "have mutually agreed to end their ongoing state and federal court litigation," an announcement Tuesday from Weiser's office said.
The state and Phillips have been battling for years over his refusal in a pair of well-publicized cases to design custom products for LGBTQ customers. Phillips has maintained that to do so would violate his religious beliefs, adding that all customers are free to buy non-custom products at his Lakewood shop.
"Under the terms of the agreement, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission will voluntarily dismiss the state administrative action against Masterpiece Cakeshop and its owner, Jack Phillips, and Mr. Phillips will voluntarily dismiss his federal court case against the state," Weiser's office said.
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The same day that Hickenlooper announces his bid for the Presidency, the Civil Rights Commission, which he appointed, drops its complaint against Jack Phillips.
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