Tag - First Amendment

National Pro-Life Bridges Day 2019

Abortion takes a human life

Stand on a highway overpass in your community and display a pro-life banner bearing the message “Abortion takes a human life”

Abortion takes a human life

Volunteers will reach highway commuters in both directions of traffic with the message “Abortion takes a human life”, with the goal of encouraging people to think and talk about the abortion issue.

The Pro-Life Action League will collaborate with 50 pro-life activist leaders from around the country, each of whom will assemble a team of five or more individuals who will stand on a highway overpass in their community and display pro-life banners bearing the message “Abortion takes a human life” during rush hour.

Police throughout the nation are expected to cooperate with this bold exercise of the First Amendment, which has been firmly upheld by the federal courts. The Pro-Life Action League is working with 50 local leaders to select suitable bridges for this project.
Locations will be posted here when the final bridges have been selected. You can find more information here on what is involved in coordinating this national outreach on highway overpasses. – View more at: https://prolifeaction.org/event/bridgesday/

United States Supreme Court Gets One Right

“Tolerance is essential in a free society. And tolerance is most meaningful when it’s mutual”.

“Tolerance is essential in a free society. And tolerance is most meaningful when it’s mutual”.

The justices asked tough questions for the attorneys in a case that will go down as a landmark free speech and religious liberty case.

The irony of the comparison of Phillips to a Nazi the state could rightfully force cake artists to celebrate the racist ideals of white supremacy, or one of the most infamous events in world history, the Holocaust. Like many Americans, Phillips seeks to work in a manner consistent with his deeply held religious beliefs, including on marriage. In order to follow his conscience, he has turned down requests for cakes that contain messages expressing certain ideas: Halloween and divorce, anti-American themes, and even anti-gay messages.

In 2012 he had politely declining to design and create a cake for a same-sex wedding.

Colorado Cake Artist Jack Phillips goes to United States Supreme Court

Colorado Cake Artist Jack Phillips goes to United States Supreme Court

He has asked the court to uphold his freedom to live and work consistent with his religious convictions, a freedom the First Amendment guarantees. Full Article

The justices are being asked in the case — known as Masterpiece Cake shop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights — whether shop owner Jack Phillips has to make a cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins’s same-sex marriage under Colorado’s public accommodations law.  Video

Phillips claimed that decorating cakes is a form of art, that he can honor God through his artistic talents and that he would displease God by creating cakes for same-sex marriages.

Craig and Mullins claim Phillips discriminated against them based on their sexual orientation by refusing to make the cake they requested in 2012, in violation of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA).