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Barbara Boland The Washington Examiner 7/15/2015 The Christian owners of the Oregon “Sweet Cakes by Melissa” bakery had until this past Monday to pay a financially-crushing $135,000 fine for their refusal to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding — but a crowdfunding campaign set up for them has raised $358,500. Aaron and Melissa Klein, […] July 15th, 2015 | Tags: 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Continue to Give, contraception, insurance mandates, Little Sisters of the Poor, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), same sex marriage, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, wedding cake | Category: 1st Amendment, Health Care, Oregon, Politics, Progressives, religion | Comments are closed
Andrew Malcolm Investors.com 6/23/3015 Barack Obama made a revealing — and disappointing — observation in a podcast interview the other day. The interview with a comedian named Marc Maron received extensive news coverage because Obama used a crude term for black people, usually bleeped in audio or described in print as n—–. But that’s not […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: Clementa Pinckney, DNA, gay marriage, Gov. Nikki Haley, same sex marriage, Sen. Tim Scott | Category: Barack Obama, Racism, South Carolina | Comments are closed
Office of the Governor Greg Abbott The State of Texas 6/11/2015 Governor Greg Abbott today signed Senate Bill 2065 (Estes, R-Wichita Falls; Sanford, R-McKinney), the Pastor Protection Act, which protects religious organizations and individuals from performing marriage ceremonies that violate sincerely-held religious beliefs. Governor Abbott hosted the signing ceremony at the Texas Governor’s Mansion and […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: "Pastor Protection Act", Greg Abbott, religious freedom, same sex marriage | Category: legislation, religion, Texas, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Alex Pfeiffer The Daily Caller 6/26/2015 …Thomas’ dissent focused on the idea of negative rights, “As one later commentator observed, ‘[L]iberty in the eighteenth century was thought of much more in relation to ‘negative liberty’; that is, freedom from, not freedom to, freedom from a number of social and political evils, including arbitrary government power,’” […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: "disparate impact claims", 1968 Fair Housing Act, due process, gay marriage, human dignity, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, same sex marriage, slavery | Category: Civil rights, Racism, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Lydia Wheeler and Ben Kamisar The Hill 6/26/2015 The Supreme Court in an historic 5-4 ruling on Friday said there is a right to same-sex marriage in all 50 states, delivering a monumental win for gay and lesbian couples across the country. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the swing vote on the court, sided with its […] June 26th, 2015 | Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, culture, gay marriage, homosexuals, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, Obergefell v. Hodges, religious liberty, same sex marriage, Star Parker, The Radiance Foundation | Category: 14th Amendment, religion, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Rob Port SayAnythingBlog 7/8/2013 Gay marriage has been banned in Colorado since 2006. Yet, despite that, a baker in Denver is facing a year in jail for refusing to bake a cake for a gay marriage ceremony: A Denver bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple is about to face […] July 8th, 2013 | Tags: Charlie Craig, Dave Mullins, gay marriage, Jack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakeshop, same sex marriage | Category: 1st Amendment, Colorado, Massachusetts, Politics, Progressives, religion | Comments are closed
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