worked with him behind the scenes and two cases, one involving two lesbians who wanted both names and birth certificate of their baby and arkansas was preventing that and another case involving a colorado baker, who had been sanctioned for refusing to serve to bake a cake for two gay men who wanted to celebrate their wedding and he works with justice kennedy button hold him to rule for the women in arkansas so that both names could be on the birth certificate. but then eventually to favor the baker over the two gay men who felt like he said, should be sanctioned under colorado anti discrimination law. but it just showed down and katelyn polantz. weighed in to try to make sure that the court isn t going to go too far, too fascinating direction. and he s more of an institutionalist even though he felt so strongly about that obergefell ruling. it s a
court, which so rarely we get an insight into so tell us more about this. okay so the chief dissents from the 2015 obergefell ruling and he s so angry that he descends from the bench, and it s the first time ever that he does that. and he says, you know, just who do we think we are doing? this one state legislature should do this if they re going to have any kind of right to same sex marriage. but then, just two years later, he privately worse with anthony kennedy, who was the author of the obergefell ruling to gay rights decisions. in one he joins with kennedy to uphold the interests of two lesbian women who want both names on a birth certificate of their baby in arkansas compromises there to go with kennedy within separately, kennedy does something for him. and decides that he will vote to hear this case of a colorado baker, who d been sanctioned for refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple. so how common are these kinds of trade offs? pam
The Supreme Court took the easy way out when it first heard a dispute between Jack Phillips, a baker, and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Justices sidestepped the fundamental issue, which was whether the state could compel speech from private citizens, and instead impugned the commission s actions by pointing to the bigoted statements that its members directed at Christians.
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to stop suffering? i don t know. but at least darth vader has a dance partner. look at the bright side. laura: i just want to see you on horseback managing the crowds. all right, raymond. it s so good to have you here. thank you. laura: all right. jack phillips, the colorado baker, who has been under attack from left wing activists. i think it s for over a decade. he s being targeted again. the details are here. the baker is here exclusively in moments. doctor. i m not even in a doctor s office. i m standing on the street, talking to real people about their heart. how s your heart? my heart s pretty good. you sure? i think so. how do you know? you re driving a car? you have the check engine light, but the heart doesn t have a hey, check heart sign. i want to show you something. put both fingers right on those pads. there you go. in 30 seconds, we re going to have a medical grade ekg. -there it is. -that is you. look at that.