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became president, this is to be stated that recently, in many of the cases, the judiciary has
provided the decision that prevented the practices of years. However, the development is not a
sole result of the judicial decision of a single case, but certain other administrative decisions also
acted as a force behind the same.
According to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, every citizen of US has a right to
practice her/his own religion or no religion.
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. ___ (2018)3
The case is very recent and significant in the sector of civil right. The same is significant due to
the decision of the Supreme Court that has made a new development in the sector of the religious
right. The issue of the case has been started when in the year 2012 when the same-sex couple
Craig and Mullins have visited Masterpiece Cakeshop to buy a cake for their wedding return
celebration4. The owner of the Cakeshop, Jack Phillips denied giving the cake to this couple
stating that he is a Christian and his religion do not allow him to prepare cakes for same-sex
couples5. Under state's public accommodations law, the couple has filed a complaint against the
owner of the Cakeshop with Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The commission has considered
the whole case and provided the decision in the favor of Craig and Mullins. In the reasoning of
the decision of the case, Commission stated that giving the decision in the favor of Cakeshop
owner can held an issue of the breach of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act6. This act
3Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. ___ (2018)
4 Supremecourt.gov (2018), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf (last visited Dec 4,
2018).
5 Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, American Civil Liberties Union (2018),
https://www.aclu.org/cases/masterpiece-cakeshop-v-colorado-civil-rights-commission (last visited Dec 9, 2018).
6 Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission - Global Freedom of Expression, Global Freedom of
Expression (2018), https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/masterpiece-cakeshop-v-craig/ (last

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