Reports: $40 million from Levi Strauss fortune spent to promote same sex marriage, destroy Colorado baker

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Reports: $40 million from Levi Strauss fortune spent to promote same sex marriage, destroy Colorado baker

by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2018 A foundation funded by the Levi Strauss fortune, which has pumped some $40 million into the effort to legalize same-sex marriage since 2001, has also targeted  Christian baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, reports say. Having triumphed with the 2015 Supreme […]

Supremes: Resolve same sex disputes ‘without undue disrespect’ to religious beliefs

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Supremes: Resolve same sex disputes ‘without undue disrespect’ to religious beliefs

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2018 The Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated a baker’s First Amendment rights when it ruled against him for his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, the Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision on June 3. Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion that the […]