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...
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...
Glenn Beck interviews Gary Johnson on freedom of conscience, religious liberty topics
Many voters feel disenfranchised by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the two main candidates for president and have looked at Libertarian Gary Johnson, who is now rising a bit in some polls. The former New Mexico 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...
ADF defends Phoenix artists refusing same-sex weddings who are threatened with jail time
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Phoenix art studio that specializes in hand-painting, hand-lettering, and calligraphy for weddings and other events filed suit in state court Thursday to challenge More...
Colorado baker Jack Phillips loses appeal in gay wedding lawsuit
The Colorado Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Christian baker accused of discrimination for declining to make a wedding cake for a homosexual service. Jack Phillips and his attorneys now claim they are More...
Obama goes to London, bashes North Carolina, Mississippi transgender bathroom laws
President Obama used his visit to the United Kingdom on Friday to lament new laws in North Carolina and Mississippi requiring use of government restrooms in accordance with birth gender as “wrong and should be More...
Pat Boone calls out SNL ‘God’s Not Dead 2’ parody as offensive to Christians, Jews, gays, ‘feeding cynicism’
Pat Boone says Saturday Night Live parody skit about God’s Not Dead 2 is offensive to Christians, Jews and homosexuals, and thinks the long-running show is feeding cynicism in America. “I think a general antipathy More...
John Kasich attacks religious liberty bills, Mississippi, business owners don’t have freedom to say ‘no’ to gay weddings
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich criticized Mississippi’s religious freedom law during a CNN town hall event Monday. “I read about this thing they did in Mississippi where apparently More...
NFL opposes Georgia’s religious freedom bill, may prevent Atlanta from hosting Super Bowls
The NFL came out against a proposed religious exemptions bill in Georgia Friday, saying the deal could have an effect on the Super Bowl selection process for 2019 and 2020. Protecting religious freedom, providing religious More...
Texas bakers attacked, insulted and threatened after refusing gay wedding cake
Two more Texas bakers are facing threats to their family and their business after declining to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, according to an attorney who is representing them. Problems reportedly began More...
Franklin Graham to Christians: ‘Stand up’ for faith in ‘culture of intolerance’
Franklin Graham said the gunman who killed nine people at a college in Oregon did so because he was “filled with hate” and encouraged Christians to “stand up.” “This was not about gun control,” More...
