Corporations Back Away from Opposing Baker in Religious Liberty Battle

LifeSite News ^ | 12/8/17 | Doug Mainwaring

[marshmallow]

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 8, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Three dozen corporations recently banded together to file an amicus brief in which they take a stand against religious liberty in a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The case concerns Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who declined to create a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his religious beliefs. In 2013, a lower court ruled that Phillips violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. The baker was then ordered by the state's civil rights commission to create a wedding cake for a same-sex “marriage” against his will.

In 2015, the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the decision. Then the Colorado Supreme Court refused to hear the case in July 2016. Consequently, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), representing Phillips, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take it up.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case.

In the lead-up to the court hearing, 37 corporations, organized by the LGBT-promoting Human Rights Campaign, joined forces to author their brief on behalf of the gay couple who sought legal action against Phillips for his religious convictions.

Most of these corporations are well known: from Amazon, Apple and American Airlines to PayPal, Pfizer and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

379 versus 37: a precipitous drop

In 2015, in advance of the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges case that produced the high court’s landmark decision instituting same-sex marriage across the country, 379 corporations and employers filed a joint Amicus brief supporting gay marriage.

[Chode]

[Vigilanteman]

Here is the complete list of 37 businesses who think it is perfectly okay for the Gaystapo to seek out Christian owned businesses for the explicit purpose of destroying them:

Affirm, Inc. ; Airbnb, Inc. ; Amalgamated Bank ; Amazon.com, Inc. ; American Airlines; Apple ; Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. ; Choice Hotels, International ; Cisco Systems, Inc. ; Citigroup Inc. ; Deutsche Bank ; Glassdoor, Inc .; Intel Corporation ; John Hancock ; Levi Strauss & Co. ; Linden Research, Inc. ; Lyft Inc .; Marriott International, Inc. ; MassMutual ; Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams ; MongoDB, Inc. ; National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce; NIO U.S. ; PayPal Holdings, Inc. ; Pfizer Inc ; Postmates Inc; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ; 3 Prudential Financial, Inc. ; Replacements, Ltd. ; salesforce.com, inc. ; SurveyMonkey ; The Estée Lauder Companies ; Uber Technologies, Inc. ; Wedding Wire, Inc. ; Weebly, Inc. ; Witeck Communications ; and Yelp Inc.

[Arm_Bears]

Affirm, Inc.

Airbnb, Inc.

Amalgamated Bank

Amazon.com, Inc.

American Airlines

Apple

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc.

Choice Hotels, International

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Deutsche Bank

Glassdoor, Inc.

Intel Corporation

John Hancock

Levi Strauss & Co.

Linden Research, Inc.

Lyft Inc.

Marriott International, Inc.

MassMutual

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams

MongoDB, Inc.

National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

NIO U.S.

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

Pfizer Inc

Postmates Inc

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Prudential Financial, Inc.

Replacements, Ltd.

salesforce.com, inc.

SurveyMonkey

The Estée Lauder Companies

Uber Technologies, Inc.

WeddingWire, Inc.

Weebly, Inc.

Witeck Communications

Yelp Inc.

[SoFloFreeper]

thank you for this list.

[facedown]

That’s good!

[Flavious_Maximus]

I am very surprised that Welles Fargo Bank is not on that list.

Welles Fargo and the New York Times absolutely hate Christians. Welles Fargo lost billions when Franklin Graham sent out the alarm and had his fellow Christians withdraw all their money from that degenerate San Fransisco bank.

[Chode]

personally, i make their cake, and it’d be the driest most bland tasteless out of round uneven misshapen poorly lettered and decorated cake you’ve ever seen

i might have to make it, but that doesn’t mean they’d like it

[Walkingfeather]

So..... Let’s say a group of 30 Ku Klux Klansman decide they want to fly to Atlanta to attend their national convention on American Airlines. They file down the jetway in full robes... are you telling me American Airlines would not refuse service?

[ravenwolf]

I never did like Levi’s or Amazon, the rest I M not familiar with.