Social media and these platforms its the disgraceful thing. That was from july at the White House Social Media summit, that is our topic this week on the communicators. Conservatives and social media, and whether they are censored. Starting as to discuss this issue are to my conservatives, Patrick Hedger and robert bluey. You at that social media summit. What are your impressions . Guest it was quite an event. I probably will never take anything quite like it as this president is know to put on events like this. Whats a combination of both a celebration of social media and the success that he and others have had taking a message directly to the American People that it also was an opportunity for him to highlight some of the areas he feels hes being suppressed in his reach. Other conservatives stood up and spoke about their own examples of bias from the social Media Companies. Its a combination of those two types of things and, of course, as the present is known to do it went on for qui
Case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado civil rights commission. The case arose when Charlie Craig and david mullins, a gay cupple who walked tomorrow when Masterpiece Cakeshop in lakewood, colorado, owned and operated by Jack Phillips, a devout christian. As with all of his customers, phillip said no problem with selling the couple anything off the shelf, but he declined to make a custom made cake to celebrate the couples wedding. Citing his religious convictions. He was willing to direct them to nearby bakeries and would design a cake as he had done with others. Unsatisfied, craig and mullins filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission alleged that phillips had violated the colorado antidiscrimination act. Finding in their favor, the commission ordered phillips, among other things torques conduct comprehensive staff things, to conduct comprehensive staff training including his family members who worked at the bakery. After supporters of craig and mullins picketed the
I dont know if your web but theres a very similar case about to go to the United Kingdom Supreme Court, ashes bakery, which is based in northern ireland. Gay marriage is still illegal. They fought issue in northern ireland, but what the bakery was refusing to do was to make a cake with a slogan on it saying support gay marriage, and they said that they were quite willing to serve gay customers. In fact, the customers they refused to serve a regular customers. They would have refused to make that cake for a heterosexual couple or whoever, what they were not prepared to convey that message. And yet they have been caught so far all the with the legal system on antidiscrimination legislation. So its discrimination against gays but indeed they are being forced to support one side of a very difficult legal debate in northern ireland. Because it causes squirted the issue of race right at the end. Right, the easy answer would be thats not this case but im not going to leave you with that. That
Injustice are just the same. The reality of discrimination is it is not just about the person, but it is also about those who are impacted a married couple whose experiences face discrimination at every turn. [indiscernible] years after their son was born, he was denied the opportunity to attend day care with his friends just be has because he had to wo moms. He and his community are living in a world that stigmatize their family, denied the opportunities as those of other children. Not the world we want for the next generation. It is time to fulfill the promise of equality for all our families with no exception. Applause]d good morning. [indiscernible] includes all of us, regardless of whether you are lesbian, a, black,l, or transgender, that you know, or a person with a disability. Not get to pick who they serve and who they will not this country has a long and sordid history of using religion justify the rights justified the denial of rights this is not a case about religious libert
Institutions for being biased or inaccurate have been a pretty prominent feature for a pretty long time. And, you know, with President Trump kind of being more explicit about attacks on the media and actually even individual reporters, thats only kind of taken a longstanding trendak and made it even more extreme. Host one of the things you at as a data point is the president and statements when he said something along the lines of the media is the enemy of the american people. Whatlo did you learn from that . Guest well, we actually thought we would ask our survey responsibilities whether they literally respondents whether they literally believe that statement. So what we found was that 31 thats, you know, certainly not by any means, but a substantial minority of americans basically endorsed that statement. But again, among Trump Supporters that figure is about twice as high. Host did that surprise you . Guest yeah. I mean, thats a pretty extreme statement, you know . So on the one han