Masterpiece Cakeshop, LTD and Jack C. Phillips vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Dr. Marie Hilliard, PhD, MS, MA, JCL, RN
President-Elect, NACN-USA

NACN-USA in collaboration with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Colorado Catholic Conference, Catholic Bar Association, Catholic Medical Association (CMA), and the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) signed on to this AMICUS Brief in the Masterpiece Cakeshop, LTD and Jack C. Phillips vs. the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The question presented was “Whether applying Colorado’s public accommodations law to compel an artist to create expression that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage violates the Free Speech or Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment. You can read the oral arguments to SCOTUS from Alliance for Defensing Freedom.  This case was heard by the Supreme Court of the United States of America on December 5, 2017. Dr. Carolyn Laabs, PhD, MA, FNP-BC, RN, Chair, Ethics and Spirituality Committee represented the NACN-USA at the dinner hosted by the Phillips family following the Supreme Court hearing.  Read more from Dr. Laabs about the court hearing and the reception in this message to the membership.

Dr. Carolyn Laabs, PHD, MA, FNP-BC, RN at the Dinner following the Supreme Court Brief