Master Piece Cakeshop V. Colorado Supreme Court Case

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Over the past few months on my social media feed, I've seen some of my LBGTQ friends posting things such as their partner and themselves are planning on getting married within the next coming months or x amount of months or years being with each other. Just recently in the news, probably not televised on the main stream news networks, there is a Supreme Court case down in Colorado. The case name is Master Piece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The religious aspect that this Supreme Court case has screaming right away is the actions of Mr. Philips decision in which "pits religious believers against the nonreligious". Mr. Philips denied making a cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins which caused controversy within the state of Colorado. This case as well is brining many other issues to light that are not being publicly mentioned as for this case is, yet nevertheless its stirring the melting pot in America that in not all cases should the government rules and regulations should be followed to the bullet points. Such as the findings founded in the "Lavender Scare" in which founded and called homosexuals in work settings publicly and shunned them. It was founded as well in President Carters staff …show more content…

Philips or Charlie and David. Protestants mentioned and find under their findings of Colorado's public accommodation law that that "Colorado's antidiscrimination law at issue in Masterpiece Cakeshop already exempts places that are “principally used for religious purposes” from its definition of a place of public accommodation." Which entails that Mr. Philips has the right to decline providing services no matter the couples background. Few other religious background such as "Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs" and few others argue the same point that Mr. Philips decision was morally

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