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DENVER — It’s shaping up to be a battle between religious rights and civil rights. The owner of a Lakewood bakery accused of discriminating against gays appeared in civil court Wednesday. A judge will decide if Jack Phillips violated discrimination laws—by refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple last summer. Dave Mullins […]

DENVER — A Lakewood gay couple is moving ahead with a discrimination complaint against a cakeshop that refused to prepare their wedding cake. The Colorado Attorney General’s office filed a formal complaint last week against Masterpiece Cakeshop on behalf of Charlie Craig and David Mullins. The complaint stems from an incident on July 19, 2012, […]

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A Lakewood gay couple may end up having a masterpiece of a wedding, but they won’t have a “Masterpiece” cake to go along with it. Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, told the couple they have their sexual orientation to thank for that. It’s an event that occurred on […]

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Gay rights activists held a demonstration in Lakewood to protest a baker’s decision not to sell a wedding cake to a same sex couple for a September wedding. David Mullins and his partner Charlie are upset with the owner of the Masterpiece Cake Shop  who declined to sell them a cake after […]