Tag Archives: Colorado

Heritage Foundation: Please Send Jesus Bucks To Martyred Colorado Christian Baker Jack Phillips

Last week a Colorado appeals court affirmed that Colorado baker Jack Phillips had violated state law by refusing to sell wedding cakes to gay couples. Today the Heritage Foundation is promoting, what else, a Christian crowd-funding drive for their newly-minted martyr. Phillips, it’s important to note, has not been fined at all. But send him some Jesus Bucks, stat! Via …

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Freep This Colorado Poll

Yesterday the Colorado Appeals Court upheld a state commission’s ruling that the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop had violated public accommodations laws. Today the Denver Post wants to know if that was the right decision. (Tipped by JMG reader Joseph)

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Todd Starnes Has The Colorado Sadz

“Jack will be required by the government to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples. If he denies anyone service, he will be required to explain why. He is also expected to retrain his staff in the state’s anti-discrimination policies – including his 88-year-old mother. It sounds like the government wants to round up Phillips and his staff and haul them …

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COLORADO: Appeals Court Upholds Ruling That Anti-Gay Bakery Violated Public Accommodation Laws

Yet another big win for the good guys! Via the Denver Channel: The Colorado Court of Appeals says a Lakewood bakery owner cannot refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples. The appeals court reaffirmed the Colorado Civil Rights Commission order from May that Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips cannot refuse to prepare wedding cakes for gay couples. Phillips’ attorneys …

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COLORADO: Ballot Measure Seeks To Limit Same-Sex Marriages As Civil Unions

Via the Denver Post: A proposed ballot initiative filed Thursday would redefine same-sex marriages in Colorado as civil unions. A second initiative would allow wedding-related businesses opposed to gay marriage to hire a contractor to serve the couples. Keeping gay marriage out of Colorado could be difficult, if not impossible, since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 26 that …

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COLORADO: State GOP Invites Log Cabin To Share Booth At Right Wing Convention

Via the Denver Post: The Colorado Republican Party has invited a gay GOP group that wasn’t allowed to set up a table at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver to share its booth. Party Chairman Steve House, who took over in March, made the announcement Thursday afternoon, one day after a firestorm over the snub by summit organizers to the …

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Right Wing Convention Bans Log Cabin

Via the Associated Press: Organizers of a conservative conference in Denver this summer have told a gay Republican group it cannot have a booth at the event. The Western Conservative Summit is scheduled for June in Denver, where thousands of conservative activists will gather to hear Republican presidential hopefuls like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Pennsylvania Sen Rick Santorum …

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TSA Agents Fired For “Groping” Scheme

The wingnuts are going to have a field day. Two Transportation Security Administration officials at Denver International Airport (DIA) have been fired for conducting a scam on male passengers. A male and female agent collaborated so the male could fondle the genitals of men he found attractive. At some point in 2014, the male TSA agent told a female coworker …

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COLORADO: State Senate Committee Rejects “Ex-Gay” Torture Ban Bill

Via the Associated Press: A bill to ban gay-conversion therapy for kids has been rejected by Republicans that control the state Senate. The bill would have banned therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of children. It was rejected 3-2 on a party-line vote in a Senate committee Wednesday. The bill earlier passed in the House, …

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COLORADO: State Dismisses Complaint Against Bakery That Refused To Make “Homosexuality Is Detestable” Cake

Via the Washington Post: Owners of a Denver bakery did not discriminate against a customer by refusing to fulfill an order requesting two cakes with ant-gay imagery and wording on them. That’s the message from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, which ruled that the Azucar Bakery was within its rights when employees refused to carry out an order from …

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COLORADO: House Passes “Ex-Gay” Ban

The battle in the state Senate is expected to be tough.

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COLORADO: “Ex-Gay” Torture Ban Advances In State House Committee

From the Associated Press: Colorado mental health professionals would be barred from practicing gay conversation therapy with minors under a bill given initial approval Friday by the state House. The House advanced the bill on an unrecorded voice vote. A final vote this week could send the proposal to the more conservative Senate, where its chances were less clear. The …

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VIDEO: Trans Activists Storm Stage At Task Force’s Creating Change Convention

I reported on this early today and this afternoon the Task Force posted video. The audio cuts in and out early in the clip but returns after few minutes.

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DENVER: Mayor Cancels Speech To Task Force After Trans Advocates Storm Stage

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock canceled his planned welcoming address at the Task Force’s annual  Creating Change conference last night after a large group of transgender advocates stormed the stage in protest of the recent killing of a Latina teen by Denver police. Michelle Garcia reports at the Advocate: Task Force deputy executive director Russell Roybal and Creating Change director Sue …

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COLORADO: Pro-Gay Bakery Launches Legal Defense Crowdfunding Campaign

From Azucar Bakery’s GoFundMe page: As many of you know some time ago a person came into my bakery asking to make a Bible shaped cake with discriminatory and hateful words against the LGBT community. I did not feel comfortable writing said message. I would gladly make the cake but would give him the tools to write the message himself. …

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COLORADO: Media Names Man Who Filed Complaint Against Pro-Gay Bakery

Last week a complaint was filed against a Colorado bakery after its owner declined a customer’s demand for a cake that would have featured anti-gay slurs. The complainant has now been identified. Via Denver’s Fox affiliate: The man who filed a discrimination complaint against a Denver baker after she refused to make him a cake with an anti-gay cake message …

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COLORADO: Wingnut Files Discrimination Complaint Against Pro-Gay Bakery

A Denver bakery has been hit with a discrimination complaint after declining to make a wedding cake that would have featured anti-gay slurs. Here’s how the incident went down, via Out Front: The gentleman took a seat at one of the tables as the team served him free samples and began building his order. He swiped through pics of Bible …

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COLORADO: Church Cancels Funeral For Lesbian Minutes After Scheduled Start

Via Denver’s NBC affiliate: A “Dignity in Death” rally will be held Tuesday afternoon for a lesbian woman who was denied a funeral at New Hope Ministries in Lakewood, Colo. last week. Vanessa Collier’s friends say the funeral was canceled by the church 15 minutes after the service was supposed to start because the church would not allow a picture …

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FLORIDA: Pete Coors, Head Of MillerCoors, To Speak At Anti-Gay Catholic Convention

The virulently anti-gay Catholic group Legatus, which counts Brian Brown among its members, will hold its annual convention in Naples, Florida at the end of the month. Among the speakers are Fox News anchor Bret Baier and failed 2004 US Senate candidate Pete Coors, the chairman of brewing giant MillerCoors. Over at Good As You, Jeremy Hooper points us to …

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David Pakman Interviews New Colorado Lawmaker & Exorcist Of Gay Demons

Clip recap: “Gordon Klingenschmitt, former Navy Chaplain and recent Colorado State Representative-elect, joins David to discuss his 70-30 victory, his legislative goals, and whether lesbian exorcism will be part of his legislative platform.”

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