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Seattle Gay News S E AT T L E ’ S L G B T Q N E W S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T W E E K LY
SCOTUS rules for anti-Gay baker
Decision is terrible or fine depending on what you read
Colorado “cake artist” Jack Phillips – Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The US Supreme Court issued an equivocal ruling on June 4 in the case of Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which a Colorado baker claimed a religious exemption from the state’s civil rights laws.
The case arose when Charlie Craig and David Mullins visited Jack Phillips’ bakery to order a wedding cake. Phillips turned them away, claiming his religious beliefs would not permit him to endorse a samesex wedding – even to the minimal extent of providing a cake for the reception.
see SCOTUS page 6
LGBTQ candidates make history in Democratic primaries across the US
NAACP statement on Supreme Court decision
in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Charlie Craig (l) and David Mullins talk to reporters about a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sets aside a Colorado decision against a baker who would not make a wedding cake for the same-sex couple. – Photo by David Zalubowski / AP
BALTIMORE – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s premier civil rights organization, released the following statement on the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court ruling: “The US Supreme Court yesterday char-
acterized as ‘unexceptional’ the principle that state law ‘can protect gay persons, just as it can protect other classes of individuals, in acquiring whatever products and services they choose on the same terms and condi-
see NAACP page 7
HRC kicks off Pride Month by launching a “Summer of Action” to rally millions of equality voters coast to coast
Image courtesy of HRC
Democratic voters across the nation spoke out [on June 5], craving more diverse leadership. From Alabama to Montana to California, LGBTQ candidates are poised to make history. Here’s a snapshot of some of the new LGBTQ candidate successes so far this primary season:
June 5: MONTANA Amelia Marquez (HD-52): If elected in November, Amelia will not only flip another legislative from red to blue but also become Montana’s first openly transgender legislator, and dependent on other elections,
see LGBTQ DEMS page 17
WASHINGTON – [On June 1], the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, launched a nationwide “Summer of Action” anchored by more than 500 local events in all fifty states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. [On June 1], HRC President Chad Griffin [kicked off]
a monthlong series of campaign events in half a dozen battleground states with events in Madison, Wisconsin. HRC staff, members, and supporters are fanning out across the country to support voter registration efforts, phone banking, candidate events, [and] grassroots
see SUMMER OF ACTION page 17