Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentIn 2012,a baker in Colorado refused to make a cake for a gay couple’s wedding. The couple sued setting the stage for a legal drama that, after a series of appeals, or has lead all the way to the United States Supreme Court.nowadays the justices hear verbal arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission,front and center in the case is the issue of free speech. It's an worn debate with a complicated twist: the baker, Jack Phillips considers himself a cake “artist, and ” and his cakes are his art. As such,Mr. Phillips argues he cannot be compelled to sell a custom cake for a same-sex wedding, because same-sex marriage is against his deeply held devout beliefs.
David Gans is director of the Human Rights, and Civil Rights,and Citizenship Program at Constitutional Accountability Center. He signed onto an Amicus Brief supporting the couple in this case. Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. and he signed a brief in support of the baker. Here, they debate the issues at the heart of the case. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich
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