The U.S. Supreme Court, in ruling Monday on behalf of a Lakewood baker who in 2012 refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, dealt a major rebuke to Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission by finding that the panel rejected the baker’s First Amendment rights. That decision — focusing on the commission’s “hostility” and unfair decision-making — is likely to raise questions about how the commission operates in the future. But in terms of tangible changes to the panel, which was at the center of fierce debate during the recently ended 2018 legislative session, major alterations seems unlikely. “The decision, while very critical of the (Colorado Civil Rights Commission) and how it handled this particular case, doesn’t say anything or make any effort to curtail the CCRC’s authority,” said Christopher Jackson, an attorney at the Denver law firm of Sherman & Howard who focuses on appeals cases. The justices found that members of the commission made “official expressions of hostility to religion” during their deliberations on the case centering on Masterpiece Cakeshop and baker Jack Phillips and his refusal to make a cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins. “The Colorado Civil Rights’s consideration of this case was inconsistent with the state’s obligation of religious neutrality,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision.
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