State Supreme Court handed hot-potato discrimination case

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The Colorado Civil Rights Commission has determined that a bakery can refuse to design a cake celebrating a customer’s religious beliefs about sex and marriage if it is willing to create other cakes for the customer.

Unless the baker is a Christian.

That’s how a complaint filed with the Colorado Supreme Court by Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips describes the problem.

Phillips, in a brief by the Alliance Defending Freedom, is asking the high court to overturn a lower-court decision that concluded he can be coerced by the government to support a message that violates his religious beliefs.

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