Trump’s Labor Office moves to protect religious freedom, freedom of conscience
The Trump administration has proposed a rule which protects faith-based organizations that contract with the federal government by allowing them to make employment decisions consistent with their sincerely held More...
ADF files motion to dismiss latest lawsuit against Jack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakeshop over transgender cake
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips and his Masterpiece Cakeshop filed a motion in state court Monday to dismiss the latest legal attack against him for declining More...
SCOTUS rejects Oregon baker gay marriage case due to Jack Phillips ruling
In a victory for Sweet Cakes Bakery and Melissa and Aaron Klein, today the U.S. Supreme Court sent their case back to the Oregon Court of Appeals in light of the June 2018 decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. “Lesbian” More...
Court dismisses Jack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakeshop case as Diann Rice’s remarks prove hostility against baker
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission announced Tuesday that it will dismiss its most recent charges against cake artist Jack Phillips in the wake of newly discovered evidence of the state’s ongoing hostility More...
Transgender lawyer Autumn Scardina sues Colorado baker Jack Phillips over refusing ‘trans cake’
Just when you thought Jack Phillips was out of the headlines, he’s back. The Colorado baker won a Supreme Court case over whether he can refuse service for same-sex weddings is suing the state again after More...
Chris Cuomo likens Red Hen expelling Sarah Sanders to Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling, Rick Santorum calls out ‘intellectual dishonesty’
Monday on Cuomo Primetime, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum called out CNN host Chris Cuomo on his “intellectual dishonesty.” Photo/Donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com Cuomo tried to compare More...
Supreme Court rejects Barronelle Stutzman, Arelene’s Flowers case after gay wedding cake verdict
The U.S. Supreme Court sent the case of floral artist Barronelle Stutzman back to the Washington Supreme Court Monday, after vacating that court’s decision and instructing it to reconsider her lawsuit in light More...
Supreme Court sides with Jack Phillips, cake shop in Christian baker, free of conscience, gay wedding case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 today in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a historic case that protects the right to free exercise of religion against the LGBT “sexual orientation” More...
ADF to Supreme Court: ‘Artists shouldn’t be forced to express what government dictates’
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing cake artist Jack Phillips filed their final brief Wednesday prior to oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights More...
Support grows for Colorado cake artist, Jack Phillips, in gay marriage case headed to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has received at least 45 friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the freedom of a Colorado cake artist to decline to create custom artistic expression that celebrates events in conflict More...
Supreme Court to rule on gay wedding cake, freedom of conscience case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh in on whether the government can force a Lakewood, Colorado, cake artist to use his artistic talents to create a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex ceremony. In July More...
Colorado: ADF fights for web site designer, graphic artist’s right to reject gay wedding projects
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Colorado graphic designer who specializes in designing and creating custom websites filed suit in federal court Tuesday to challenge a state law that forces her More...
Colorado baker Jack Phillips trying to take freedom of conscience case to US Supreme Court
A Lakewood, Colorado, cake artist who declined to use his artistic talents to create a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex ceremony asked the nation’s highest court Friday to take his case and rule that the government More...
Colorado baker still fighting for religious freedom, right to refuse gay weddings
A Lakewood, Colorado, cake artist who declined to use his artistic talents to create a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex ceremony asked the state’s highest court Friday to take his case and rule that the government More...
ADF heads to court to defend Coloado baker who refuse to make gay wedding cake
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco and ADF-allied attorney Nicolle Martin are speaking out following Tedesco’s oral argument before the Colorado Court of Appeals on behalf of a Lakewood, More...
Colorado religious freedom double standard revealed after ruling defends refusal of ‘anti-gay cake’
The battle over gay rights and religious freedom heated up Monday as conservatives and Christians pointed to a Colorado panel’s ruling in favor of three bakeries that refused to bake anti-gay cakes as evidence More...
Colorado cake maker, Jack Phillips, still fighting right to refuse ‘gay wedding’ cake
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys and allied attorneys filed a reply briefTuesday with the Colorado Court of Appeals on behalf a Lakewood, Colorado, cake artist who declined to use his artistic talents to create More...
Colorado Civil Rights Commission compares Christian cake artist to Nazi, slave owner
A new brief filed with the Colorado Court of Appeals reveals that a member of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission compared a Christian cake artist to slave owners and perpetrators of the Holocaust when the commission More...
