U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights
Sep. 25, 2017
Government shouldn’t tell us what to support
The Supreme Court should use the Masterpiece Cakeshop case to bring clarity to the collision of rights public accommodation laws inadvertently produce.
William J. Becker Jr.
President, CEO and General Counsel
Freedom X
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Univ of San Diego School of Law
Bill Becker is founder, president, CEO and general counsel of Freedom X, a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit public interest law firm and advocacy center protecting conservative and religious freedom of expression.
OCTOBER 2017 TERM
On July 19, 2012, Jack Phillips, a sincerely devout Christian and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., refused to bake a cake celebrating same-sex marriage. The conversation he had with the gay couple who entered his bakery was brief. Phillips informed the couple that he does not create wedding cakes for same-sex weddings. “I’ll make you birthday cakes, shower cakes, sell you cookies and brownies, I just don’t ma...
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