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
The Supreme Court heard the oral arguments in Masterpiece Cake shop, the Civil Rights Commission tuesday. Jack phillipss lawyers and respondents, along with their lawyers made their remarks outside the Supreme Court following the orbital oral arguments. I michael ferris. Thediscussion was lively, session was longer than the scheduled hour because there was such interest on all sides of the case. This is the first time in American History where there is serious consideration of compelling people to deliver a message that is contrary to their beliefs. Freedom of speech means the ability to refuse to speak a message you do not agree with and the freedom includes a context where other people might be offended. We recognize, on each side of this question, people will be offended. If that was enough to curtail someones religious freedom are really freedom of speech, this would no longer be the same country founded over 200 years ago. Because the essence of america has been for a long time, i
Andity to refuse to speak includes the context where other people might be offended. We recognize on each side of the question, people are going to be offended. If being offended was enough to curtail someone elses religious freedom or friend most beach, this would no longer be the same country that was founded over 200 years ago because the essence of america has been for , i may disagree with everything you say but i will defend until your death the right to say it. In this case, it is worse. Defending to be the death the right to refuse to engage in streets that violate a persons core religious and political conventions. Chris wagner will come up here in just a second from our team. In a great job. She was peppered with a lot of questions. I think the court heard from four able lawyers. At the end of the day we had a good chance of prevailing. It will be close. The court paid a lot of attention to it and i expect to see the very vigorous discussion amongst the judges in relative opi
Reality. They provide thousands of paying strangers with public ordinances Public Performances over the tv. Thank you. The case is submitted. Following the oral argument, attorneys representing both abc ereo spur brief spoke briefly to reporters. Clement, paul clement. I just want to say we are very glad to get before the court filedon the case that we trying to seek review of the second circuits decision because we thought the second circuits decision was profoundly wrong and was a real threat to the nature of the broadcast industry. We are very happy to be in court today. We are very pleased with the way the Court Considered the arguments. They understood the technology. They understood the stakes. Obviously, they were focused on the interpretation of the statute and we convey to them are relatively straightforward position which is that a service can not provide live tv over the internet to thousands of paying strangers without engaging in a Public Performance. It is really as simpl
Tweets and personal stories, i will share a few of them but it seems we are tweeting about marriages and tweeting about birth and showing photos of our kids and death is the inevitable cycle of life and people are sharing with it and roger gets poetec says we go through our way through emotions and instant ways to find others going through emotions and on Facebook Allen has a heartwarming story of blogging during 8 years of his wifes cancer and declining as she passed and getting emotions and frustrations out and used to be a stress reliever for him and got this from better schuller is suffering from cancer and shares her journey on facebook and setback with family and friends ares are exhausted and hopes to go through the medium. If you had a terminal illness would you open up online . I think i would because we share our lives with the community and i think death and getting to that stage i probably would want to share it and not feel alone and also talk to my community about the imp