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After a legal battle lasting nearly five years, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today that it was legal to deny accreditation to Trinity Western University’s proposed law school in British Columbia. That means graduates of the Christian law school may not have the paperwork needed to practice law in certain provinces, making their diplomas effectively useless. […]

In Pennsylvania, the proposed law regarding what kind of schools could benefit from tax credits said any beneficiaries couldn’t discriminate against employees on account of their “gender, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.” But after a group of Christian schools whined about how it was their religious right to discriminate against homosexuals, the

An Arizona court just ruled that ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’ protects LGBTQ people from discrimination. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the anti-LGBTQ hate group that defended the Colorado baker Jack Phillips in the U.S. Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop, was just handed a big defeat for one of their other clients. And the decision cited Masterpiece Cakeshop throughout to actually

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple in a 7 to 2 decision. That decision is in contrast to popular opinion: Most Americans don’t support allowing gay Americans to be denied services because of the religious convictions of a business owner. Justice Anthony M.

The Supreme Court’s 7-2 ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case is a narrow win for Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who declined to create a custom cake for a wedding between two men. Although this case was litigated for years as a free-speech case, the justices instead found a way to decide the case on very narrow

The ruling will likely be interpreted by lower courts, which are currently being stacked with Trump appointees. Legal analysts have rightly noted that Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commissionwas narrow — though that’s not a reference to the 7-2 count (with Justices Breyer and Kagan joining the Court’s five Republican

The Supreme Court ruled Monday for a Colorado baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in a limited decision that leaves for another day the larger issue of whether a business can invoke religious objections to refuse service to gay and lesbian people. The justices’ decision turned on what the court