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ALL GO FOR ARTWALK: New walking tour route ties Lakewood’s art scene together P17 Jack Phillips, owner of Lakewood’s Masterpiece Bakery, meets with supporters before a rally Nov. 8 to support him before his Supreme Court case. Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute held the religious freedom rally featuring faith leaders speaking about the importance of Philips’ case. CLARKE READER
Supreme Court rules on side of Lakewood baker Refusal to bake a cake for same-sex wedding spurred lawsuit The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Lakewood’s Masterpiece Cakeshop in a case that LGBTQ advocates and religious freedom advocates alike have been eyeing closely. Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips has been part of the passionate debate over religious freedom and equal rights since 2012, when he declined to make a custom wedding cake for same-sex couple Charlie Craig and David Mullins, citing his religious beliefs. However, those looking for a sweeping decision on these larger issues may come away disappoint-
ed. In its 7-2 decicsion in the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case, the Supreme Court decided that the commission’s actions violated the Free Exercise Clause. Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor were the two dissenting voices in the ruling, which was issued on June 4, and Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion for the court. In it, he said the state’s Civil Rights Commission did not consider Phillip’s case free of religious bias. “When the Colorado Civil Rights Commission considered this case, it did not do so with the religious neutrality that the Constitution requires,” Kennedy wrote in his opinion. “The delicate question of when the free exercise of his religion must yield to an otherwise valid exercise of state
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