Arlene Flowers, gay wedding case headed to Supreme Court
Maybe the Supreme Court will finally decided this type of case: discrimination or freedom of conscience. The U.S. Supreme Court has received numerous friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the freedom of a Washington 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...
Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski continue battle for freedom of conscience as gay marriage case heads to Arizona Supreme Court
The Arizona Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up a pivotal artistic and religious freedom case. The case, Brush & Nib Studio v. City of Phoenix, involves two artists who risk jail time and fines if they More...
Florist Barronelle Stutzman to court in gay marriage case: ‘I serve all customers, I just can’t celebrate all events’
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing floral artist Barronelle Stutzman of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland filed their opening brief Tuesday with the Washington Supreme Court. The brief on behalf of More...
Jack Phillips asks Colorado officials to stop intolerance of his faith, asked to make transgender and a satanic cake
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Masterpiece Cakeshop and its owner, Jack Phillips, filed a motion in federal court Tuesday to stop Colorado officials from violating his constitutional rights 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...
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...
Minnesota filmmakers, Carl and Angel Larsen, headed to appeals court to fight being forced to film gay weddings
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a pair of Minnesota filmmakers filed their opening brief on appeal Friday in a lawsuit challenging a state law that allows the government to control the stories More...
SCOTUS allows Mississippi’s freedom of conscience law, no injury shown to LGBT community
The Supreme Court declined yesterday to hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that allows religious organizations to refuse to hire persons or provide services to LGBT people in 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...
Minnesota: filmmakers Carl Larsen, Angel Larsen appeal gay marriage rules, forcing Telescope Media Group to film gay wedding
A pair of St. Cloud filmmakers on Friday appealed a court order from last month that dismissed their lawsuit challenging a state law that allows Minnesota officials to control the stories they tell. The law More...
Phoenix artists Joanna Duka, Breanna Koski appealing ‘jail threat’ ordinance over gay weddings
Two Phoenix artists will appeal a court rulingreleased Wednesday that allows a sweeping Phoenix ordinance to stand even though it uses the threat of jail time and fines to silence their desired speech and forces 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...
Arizona artists lose first court battle to refuse gay weddings, judge calls objection ‘absurd’
An Arizona state judge is not convinced that a pair of Christian calligraphers should be exempt from serving same-sex couples, refusing to temporarily suspend enforcement of a Phoenix ordinance against two artists 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...
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...
Whole Foods countersues Pastor Jordan Brown over gay cake allegation
The openly homosexual pastor Jordan Brown made headlines after filing a lawsuit claiming that a Whole Foods in Austin, Texas added an anti-gay slur to a cake he ordered. Now, the chain has launched a lawsuit alleging More...
