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Consider the case of Jack Phillips, a well-known cake artist and founder of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood. Phillips declined to design a cake celebrating a same-sex couple's planned wedding, and the courts told him he had no right.
A Mississippi law enabling sweeping anti-LGBT discrimination in the name of "religious freedom" took effect Tuesday as a result of a federal appeals court decision throwing out a legal challenge to the statute. The law, House Bill 1523, was signed by Gov. Phil Bryant last year in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide.
Harvey Weinstein's wife has said the widespread allegations of sexual harassment against the Hollywood mogul are "unforgivable" and she is leaving him. British fashion designer Georgina Chapman told People magazine: "My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions.
A month ago, liberals were celebrating a sudden deal on "Dreamers" that President Trump made with congressional Democrats. Chuck Schumer, the senate minority leader, was downright giddy when a hot mic later caught him gloating that Trump "likes me."
In an order that undercuts federal protections for LGBT people, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping directive to agencies Friday to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated. The guidance, an attempt to deliver on President Donald Trump's pledge to his evangelical supporters that he would protect religious liberties, effectively lifts a burden from religious objectors to prove that their beliefs about marriage or other topics are sincerely held.
But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not reveal anything confidential when she noted the Supreme Court's upcoming term would be " momentous ." As has been clear for months, the 2017-18 term, which begins Monday, is likely to be among the most consequential in recent memory.
Shaking hands and greeting diners at a popular lunch stop, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones is hoping to persuade Alabamians to break a two-decade habit of voting Republican. A day after Republicans picked firebrand jurist Roy Moore as their nominee, Democrats see an opening, even if it's a narrow one, for a rare Southern victory in a statewide election.
You might think the mere idea that we might elect pandering career politician and current Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette governor next year is hard to believe. He's one of the most shopworn items in Lansing.
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for sexting with a 15-year-old girl in a case that rocked Hillary Clinton's campaign for the White House in the closing days of the race and may have cost her the presidency. Weiner, 53, dropped his head into his hand and wept as the sentence was announced by Judge Denise Cote.
In his nearly three decades in the public eye, Roy Moore has never been one to shy away from controversy or confrontation. Whether it's the public display of the Ten Commandments or his refusal to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage, Moore has gained national attention for his dogged and bombastic defense of his brand of Christianity's role in the American political system.
In a televised interview with the McClatchy News Service on June 25, 1969, Earl Warren, the legendary 14th chief justice of the United States, was asked to single out the most important case of his tenure on the bench, which began in 1953. Warren, who had retired from the high tribunal just two days earlier, could have named any number of high-profile rulings: Brown v.
LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Five years ago, in a decision that has led to a Supreme Court showdown, Jack Phillips refused to use his baking skills to make a wedding cake to celebrate a same-sex marriage, saying it would violate his Christian faith and hijack his right to express himself.
Cake baking is an art. Or, so says a group of professional wedding cake bakers who have filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in what promises to be the blockbuster case of the upcoming term, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v.
Edith Windsor, a widow who brought a landmark Supreme Court case that struck down parts of a federal anti-gay marriage law and paved a path toward legalizing same-sex nuptials nationwide, died Tuesday. She was 88. Windsor died in New York, said her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.
A Christian baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding has a major backer as his case heads to the US Supreme Court this fall: the Trump administration. The Department of Justice has sided with Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips, arguing that governments "may not truncate the First Amendment by compelling a person to create a piece of artwork - particularly one that violates the artist's conscience."
Lauren Durham had a poofy white dress and plans for an intimate beach wedding on the second weekend of September. Instead she got married in fatigues, with no makeup, in a vast hangar filled with rescue vehicles and paramedics just hours before she would rush into a hurricane to try to save her fellow Floridians.
Lauren Durham had a poofy white dress and plans for an intimate beach wedding on the second weekend of September. Instead she got married in fatigues, with no makeup, in a vast hangar filled with rescue vehicles and paramedics just hours before she would rush into a hurricane to try to save her fellow Floridians.
Agudath Israel of America filed an amicus curiae brief with the US Supreme Court in a significant religious liberty case, Yeshiva World News reported Sunday. The Orthodox organization asked to be allowed to assist in the case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v.
The president's hard-core backers want an America that isn't coming back. What are we going to do? What are they going to do? The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll -which shows a yawning cultural divide between Trump voters and Republicans on the one hand and everyone else on the other on everything from gay marriage to immigration-doesn't tell us much that we didn't know, but it does tell us something we should remember.
Jim Obergefell sat in the Supreme Court on a June morning more than two years ago and listened as Justice Anthony Kennedy read an opinion that would re-shape the lives of LGBT Americans by clearing the way for same-sex marriage nationwide. "They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.