https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to masterpiece cakeshop en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/30/contrary-popular-narrative-supreme-courts-303-decision-gutting-civil-rights-laws-not Today the U.S. Supreme Court gutted our system of civil rights laws that have done so much to advance America’s aspirational promise of equality. Worse, the court eviscerated equality in a case it never should have heard. 303 Creative LLC… Fri, 30 Jun 2023 04:57:27 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 53890dfe-f16e-441d-8840-8207013929c4 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/12/08/303-creative-not-religion-v-gay-rights-case-heres-why-christian-right-happy-media On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in 303 Creative v. Elenis , the latest case to pit the Christian Right against LGBTQ people. Or is it? “Supreme Court Will Hear Latest Clash Between Faith and Gay Rights.” “Masterpiece… Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:48:35 EST Heron Greenesmith 79d89063-59ea-4d81-80f3-93d9ac77a8e8 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/08/most-forgotten-queer-folks-us-are-fighting-back-against-powerful-and-publicly-funded “How do we get people to view the CCCU as an extremist organization, the same way they view ADF?” It’s a great question that Paul Southwick, a gay attorney and the director of the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP), put… Fri, 08 Apr 2022 01:51:59 EDT Chrissy Stroop 9e8b48cf-43dc-4f8d-9267-ac9b9c4d7ea3 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/09/25/why-media-and-democrats-should-reject-christian-rights-pearl-clutching-and-address America is trapped in an abusive relationship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our abuser-in-chief, but also with the Republican Party, its white Christian base, the police, and the increasingly uninhibited “ good guys with guns ,” whose vigilante… Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:34:39 EDT Chrissy Stroop 4408b225-cdbb-4cc1-ad04-bf5ccf43a79d https://religiondispatches.org/2019/10/11/latest-round-lgbtq-discrimination-cases-scotus-religion-elephant-room There’s much to say about this week’s arguments, including the question of whether the employers were arguing, in effect, that it is acceptable to discriminate against LGBTQ people so long as they discriminate against all LGBTQ people. Fri, 11 Oct 2019 02:11:57 EDT Patrick Hornbeck c2b51f34-1a53-46ed-b68c-5d018d463835 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/09/11/refusal-interracial-couple-shows-how-slippery-slope-lgbtq-refusal-really After the owner of a wedding hall was caught on tape refusing an interracial couple “because of our Christian race,” questions are resurfacing about the possibility that anti-LGBTQ “religious exemptions” might be paving the way for legalized racial discrimination. Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:30:02 EDT Heron Greenesmith 21bc0b04-fbe4-41f3-b2f7-7a6e5b8e36eb https://religiondispatches.org/2019/03/28/christian-or-nothing-buddhist-prisoner-be-executed-without-buddhist-chaplain-updated In the rare instances when courts roll back Christian privilege, the cries of persecution are swift. But parity is not oppression. And the erosion of unwarranted privilege is not persecution; it is the steady march toward equality. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:18:57 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 4088a8a1-7a5c-4d13-9d9e-c3d35431d694 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/01/03/religious-freedom-battle-far-over-heres-what-look-2019 While the issues are piling up, the Supreme Court—and U.S. society more broadly—will have to face the questions ducked in Masterpiece Cakeshop, or else be willing to settle for a level of uncertainty that serves no one. Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:17:20 EST Patrick Hornbeck ec27ae95-8ca8-4bd4-ac5d-245f46891eb8 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/13/scotus-refusal-again-favors-religious-claims-time-liberals-favor An anti-gay breakaway group has to return a half a billion dollars worth of property to the Episcopal Church. Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:53:21 EDT Patrick Hornbeck b6c6994e-e115-4300-92f1-97bf224ae0b0 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/06/heres-what-court-didnt-decide-masterpiece-cakeshop The Court may not have explicitly rejected Phillips’s free speech claims, but the fact that seven of nine justices chose not to follow Phillips and his attorneys in their primary reasoning, even while ruling in their favor, is noteworthy. Wed, 06 Jun 2018 03:48:20 EDT Patrick Hornbeck 4c4d102a-5d21-4778-beac-528be74994c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/05/will-scotuss-new-zeal-neutrality-affect-its-decision-muslim-ban The Town of Greece v. Galloway decision­­­ in 2014—also written by Justice Kennedy—upheld a town’s practice of holding legislative prayer during public meetings, even though these prayers were uniformly Christian. Where was neutrality on religion then? Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:35:47 EDT Elizabeth Platt daa7cc74-005a-4f56-8e16-8ee702f50fd8 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/05/heres-what-court-didnt-decide-masterpiece By now we’ve all learned that the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Masterpiece Cakeshop case in favor of Jack Phillips, the baker who refused to design a custom cake for a same-sex wedding. But what’s more interesting is what the… Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:40:13 EDT Patrick Hornbeck 72a9a464-945b-435b-90a2-b05dec6a2999 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/04/scotuss-incoherent-masterpiece-cakeshop-decision-0 If you had to choose a word to describe the news of today’s Supreme Court ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, you could do worse than “stupid.” In case you’ve been hiding under a rock recently, Masterpiece involves a Colorado… Mon, 04 Jun 2018 04:56:13 EDT Daniel Schultz b22f8f5d-08fe-4b49-8105-421a4b16612e https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/04/scotuss-incoherent-masterpiece-cakeshop-decision If you had to choose a word to describe the news of today’s Supreme Court ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, you could do worse than “stupid.” In case you’ve been hiding under a rock recently, Masterpiece involves a Colorado… Mon, 04 Jun 2018 02:52:32 EDT Daniel Schultz 0ca665b3-f67f-497d-b164-11b210ece22f https://religiondispatches.org/2018/04/27/project-blitz-seeks-do-christian-nationalism-what-alec-does-big-business-0 Religious freedom has been much in the news as the Trump administration has rolled out policies providing an earthly answer to the prayers of the Christian Right. It‘s a central issue in the Masterpiece Cakeshop vs Colorado Civil Rights Commission… Fri, 27 Apr 2018 04:36:40 EDT Frederick Clarkson bda69321-1aab-4ba4-b2c2-bb99578ff869 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/04/27/project-blitz-seeks-do-christian-nationalism-what-alec-does-big-business Launched initially in 2015, Project Blitz brings something new and dramatic to the Christian Right as it continues to mature as a political movement—especially in light of its electoral advances in state governments over the past decade. Fri, 27 Apr 2018 03:08:14 EDT Frederick Clarkson 5b399424-bcb2-45a4-913e-e17c53422f26 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/12/lgbtq-equality-pendulum-abruptly-swinging-back-religious-exemptions-gain-victories As the U.S. Supreme Court continues to mull the arguments of a baker who on religious grounds refused to design a custom cake for a same-sex wedding, two cases elsewhere this week suggested that however the high court rules, religious… Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:30:43 EST Patrick Hornbeck 9f8ec984-69e2-4ab7-b86c-4cc9c1aa12af https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/07/why-i-joined-over-thousand-faith-leaders-masterpiece-case-brief Last weekend, I joined thousands of people of faith in praying for LGBTQ justice in anticipation of Tuesday’s oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Last month, I joined nearly 1,300 religious leaders in telling the Supreme… Thu, 07 Dec 2017 02:19:02 EST Marie Alford-Harkey df704310-7821-4b2f-a7af-c1accbdafe86 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/07/dog-whistles-and-holes-masterpiece-cakeshop-arguments If nothing else, Tuesday’s oral arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case make clear that the ghosts of the pre- Obergefell world—indeed of the world before the Court’s 2003 decision against sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas—are still with us. Whispers… Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:22:45 EST Patrick Hornbeck 320a85e1-906f-4d22-b56d-14648a04462b https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/05/what-masterpiece-cakeshop-oral-arguments-suggest-about-future-lgbt-discrimination The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case involving a Colorado baker, Jack Phillips, who for religious reasons refused to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding reception. The… Tue, 05 Dec 2017 03:29:23 EST Patrick Hornbeck d9f3907b-2525-44e5-a4ab-56df3d911e0e https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/01/what-justice-gorsuchs-record-suggests-about-masterpiece-cakeshop-case When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments December 5 in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, it will be the first time the Court has taken up a major gay-rights case since its historic June 2015 ruling in Obergefell… Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:20:54 EST Patrick Hornbeck 62c422a2-42bc-485a-b81b-12598b6c3710 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/30/how-ruling-masterpiece-cakeshop-could-embolden-white-nationalists While deploying “religious freedom” arguments to push back on progressive social change is hardly new, the explicitly anti-LGBT premise of the upcoming Masterpiece Cakeshop suit is a relatively novel iteration of this bedrock principle’s adjudication at the high court, according… Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:34:05 EST Sunnivie Brydum dab00b59-b194-4419-ac2b-76dc904e0155 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/27/religious-case-against-religious-discrimination-cakeshop-case It might be tempting to think that Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission—the upcoming Supreme Court case about a baker who refused to make a custom cake for a same-sex wedding reception—pits religious believers against the nonreligious. After all… Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:55:29 EST Patrick Hornbeck 7b013805-033d-4f1b-97ad-a5ca1b2af0f5 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/13/subway-sandwich-artist-argument-when-religious-freedom-isnt-about-religious-freedom Consider this faintly ridiculous hypothetical: I am in line at my local Subway sandwich shop, ordering my favorite sub with a generous helping of hot sauce. “I’m sorry, sir,” says the person behind the counter, “but that much sriracha will… Mon, 13 Nov 2017 02:58:53 EST Patrick Hornbeck e1e84e02-e193-4087-b857-3b183ab072bf https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/10/dear-mr-president-we-get-it-you-really-love-white-conservative-christians The Trump administration’s latest gift to its far-right, white conservative Christian base is the DOJ’s “religious freedom” memo, which is actually a pair of documents purporting to instruct all government agencies how to be appropriately deferential to those who express… Tue, 10 Oct 2017 03:11:21 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 2950f227-ab16-4f5c-b1bb-c3d1dc8d3ccf