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FILE - In this March 10, 2014 file photo, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips cracks eggs into a cake batter mixer inside his store in Lakewood, Colo. The Supreme Court is taking on a new clash between gay rights and religion in a case about a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado. The justices said Monday, June 26, 2017, they will consider whether a baker who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds can refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
Colorado’s highest court, ostensibly there to protect the civil rights of all citizens, should rule favorably and broadly in favor of Phillips and all creatives who have objections to promoting activities they view as immoral, such as same-sex weddings, abortion, and transgenderism. “Ms. Smith stresses, too, that she has not and will not create expressions that defy any of her beliefs for any customer, whether that involves encouraging violence, demeaning another person, or promoting views inconsistent with her religious commitments,” the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in the
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