Publications
Bread-Breaking Time at SCOTUS: How a Narrow, Process-Based Free Exercise Clause Loss for Colorado Can Still Be Positive (if not a Win) for the LGBT Community
June 2018 - Equality Blog
Publications
Bread-Breaking Time at SCOTUS: How a Narrow, Process-Based Free Exercise Clause Loss for Colorado Can Still Be Positive (if not a Win) for the LGBT Community
June 2018 - Equality Blog
Well, after much anticipation, the Supreme Court handed down its Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, ruling 7-2, in an opinion penned by Justice Kennedy, that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause rights of the baker, Jack Phillips. Those reading or viewing various news networks’ hot takes may be discouraged, even devastated—We Lost, and WE LOST BAD! Justice Kennedy Betrayed Us!! Even Justices Breyer and Kagan RULED AGAINST US!!!
Not so fast.
Read the blog post here.