A Colorado appellate court ruled earlier this month that Jack Phillips, the evangelical owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, had violated the rights of a gay couple when he declined on religious grounds to design and bake a custom wedding cake for them in 2012 -- two years before same-sex marriage was even legal in the state. (The couple had actually married in Massachusetts.) The court ordered Phillips to “take remedial measures, including comprehensive staff training” on how conscientious objection must give way to anti­discrim­ination law in these situations, and to “file quarterly compliance reports” with the state on this mandated retraining. In July, the Commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries upheld fines of $135,000 against another small bakeshop, Sweet Cakes by Melissa near Portland, and its devout Christian owners, Aaron and Melissa Klein, for declining to bake a cake for a lesbian commitment...(Read Full Article)