Posted on 02/22/2021 5:27:05 PM PST by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Feb 20, 2021 / 02:39 am MT (CNA).- Ahead of a significant Supreme Court case that could determine whether Catholic adoption agencies can stay open in the U.S., a religious freedom attorney has criticized an article arguing against religious freedom protections.
“To the extent that this article proves anything, it’s that all creative professionals feel freer to exercise their constitutional rights, which is a good thing for every American,” Jake Warner, legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, said Feb. 17.
Warner was responding to a Feb. 6 article in The Atlantic by law professor Netta Barak-Corren. The article argued that religious freedom protections for wedding vendors cause harm to self-identified LGBT couples and that perhaps no religious freedom exemptions should be granted.
In recent years, Warner has represented Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, a suburban Denver baker who declined to make a same-sex wedding cake due to his Christian beliefs.
After a six-year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court backed Phillips, the bakery owner. The court ruled 7-2 in his favor in the June 4, 2018, decision Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The Supreme Court overruled the order that he serve same-sex weddings and undergo anti-discrimination training, on the grounds that some commissioners “showed elements of a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs motivating his objection.”
Some Colorado Civil Rights Commissioners “disparaged Phillips’ faith as despicable and characterized it as merely rhetorical, and compared his invocation of his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust,” the court objected.
Before success at the Supreme Court, Phillips had chosen to stop accepting all orders for wedding cakes at his shop in order to avoid further litigation. One customer later attempted to order a gender transition cake and then filed a.......
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It is unbelievable that this guy is still being harassed for having a different point of view. I would have been left town, but maybe that is where his family and his heart are rooted.
Hold Mr. Phillips up in prayer.
Not just having a different point of view, but refusing to be complicit in celebrating a union that was contrary to the word of God as well as the highest law of his state at the time. But civil rights commissions trump all. Or so they think.
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