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U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights

Feb. 13, 2018

Having cake in Kern County

People clamored onto the courthouse steps in the case of the baker who declined to make a cake for a gay couple’s nuptials — only it wasn’t in Washington, but in our own backyard.

Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, works on a wedding cake in Lakewood, Colo., Oct. 30, 2014 (New York Times News Service)

People clamored onto the courthouse steps in the case of the baker who declined to make a cake for a gay couple's nuptials. Only this time it was not in Colorado or on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2017 when the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case was argued. It was February 2018, in our own backyard, the Imperial Valley. In the case which pundits are calling "the Kern County Cake Case," a superior...

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