4.1 Religious Freedom
1. government can't intrude on a person's religious rights unless it has a compelling government interest and is acting in the least intrusive way possible.
2. It could protect discrimination against LGBT people
3. Because of pressure from public figures and businesses.
4. the court ruled someone could be fired for using peyote, a hallucinogenic drug, during a religious Native American ceremony
5. the state's RFRA would help "Christian bakers, florists and photographers" so they're not "punished for refusing to participate in a homosexual marriage!"
6. In 2014, the US Supreme Court cited the federal RFRA to exempt some employers from Obamacare's birth control mandate
7. The cake shop refused to serve the same sex couple and they sued.
8. Craig and Mullins filed charges of discrimination in response, citing a Colorado law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation by public accommodations
9. the first amendment
10. The US DOJ filed a friend of the court brief in support of the cake shop.
11. Phillips’s attorneys point out that he even offered to provide other kinds of cakes, brownies, or cookies to Craig and Mullins — showing that the issue was not that the men are gay. But he did refuse all wedding cakes to the couple, including cakes that were made for other customers before and a “nondescript” cake — showing that he was singling out gay people in refusing at least one kind of service.
12. the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, that declares, in short, that it’s unlawful to deny goods or services to someone due to their disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or ancestry.
2. It could protect discrimination against LGBT people
3. Because of pressure from public figures and businesses.
4. the court ruled someone could be fired for using peyote, a hallucinogenic drug, during a religious Native American ceremony
5. the state's RFRA would help "Christian bakers, florists and photographers" so they're not "punished for refusing to participate in a homosexual marriage!"
6. In 2014, the US Supreme Court cited the federal RFRA to exempt some employers from Obamacare's birth control mandate
7. The cake shop refused to serve the same sex couple and they sued.
8. Craig and Mullins filed charges of discrimination in response, citing a Colorado law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation by public accommodations
9. the first amendment
10. The US DOJ filed a friend of the court brief in support of the cake shop.
11. Phillips’s attorneys point out that he even offered to provide other kinds of cakes, brownies, or cookies to Craig and Mullins — showing that the issue was not that the men are gay. But he did refuse all wedding cakes to the couple, including cakes that were made for other customers before and a “nondescript” cake — showing that he was singling out gay people in refusing at least one kind of service.
12. the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, that declares, in short, that it’s unlawful to deny goods or services to someone due to their disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or ancestry.
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