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No, Donald Trump would accept my bill. The reason why is because he thinks LGBT people should not be a thing.

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The bill that I would make is that LGBT people would have the same rights as the people that rights if they are not LGBT.

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In 2002 there were two gay couple who wanted to go and get a wedding cake made for them. So they went to a bakery and asked the manager of the cake business to make them cake for them because they were getting married. The manger refused and he was very loyal to Christianity. SO the couple took the problem to court.

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided Tuesday in the case of a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple's wedding reception.

The baker, Jack Phillips, said it would violate his freedom of expression. But the couple he turned down said refusing to serve gay customers was illegal discrimination.

Justice Anthony Kennedy will likely cast the deciding vote. He has written all the court's gay rights rulings, but he is also one of the court's most ardent advocates of free speech rights. And both sides of Kennedy's legacy were on display.

"If you prevail," he asked the lawyer for Phillips, "and bakeries put signs in the window saying, 'We don't bake cakes for gay weddings,' wouldn't that be an affront to the gay community?"

Kennedy seemed to take the opposite side of the case when he told a lawyer for the gay couple, "Tolerance is essential in a free society," but added that Colorado wasn't very tolerant of Phillips' religious beliefs when the state's human rights commission ruled against him.

The incident that brought the case to the high court lasted only a few minutes, the day David Mullins and Charlie Craig of Denver walked into Masterpiece Cakeshop.

When Phillips found out they wanted a cake for a reception to celebrate their wedding, he said, "I'm sorry, guys, I can't do that."

After the couple filed a formal complaint, the Colorado courts ruled that the state's public accommodation law, which bans discrimination by companies offering their services to the public, did not allow Phillips to refuse the gay couple's request. So he appealed.

Requiring him to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, he said, would violate his First Amendment rights by requiring him to express a view, through his cakes, that is counter to his religious beliefs.

Much of Tuesday's 80-minute argument involves what-ifs. If a cake is a form of expression, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked, what about flowers, the invitation or the wedding menu? Justice Elena Kagan, in the same vein, asked what about the make-up artist or the hairdresser?

"That's not speech," said Kristen Waggoner, appearing on behalf of Phillips.

"Some might say the same about cakes," Kagan replied.

Colorado courts said a reasonable person would assume that the cake expressed the message of the couple, not the baker. And the ACLU's David Cole, arguing for the gay couple, said that was correct.

"If a mother asks a bakery for a cake that says 'Happy Birthday' and serves it at her child's birthday, no one thinks that's the baker's wishes. They think it's the mom's."

While the court struggled with the issue of whether a cake is a means of expression, the justices also seemed troubled by whether a ruling for Phillips could open the door to more widespread discrimination in the name of religious freedom.

"We want to find some kind of distinction that won't undermine every civil rights law since the year two," said Justice Stephen Breyer.

The justices will decide the case by late June.

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Supreme Court hears why baker refused to make a wedding cake for gay couple

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided Tuesday in the case of a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple's wedding reception. The baker, Jack Phillips, said it would violate his freedom of expression. But the couple he turned down said refusing to serve gay customers was illegal discrimination.

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David was discharged from the army because he is gay. But now he is the director and information technology manager of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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In 2002, David Hall was discharged from the U.S. Air Force for being gay under now extinct Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Now, Hall, who serves as OutServe-SLDN's development director and information technology manager, has been named as one of eight Americans as "citizen co-chairs," where he'll watch President Obama get sworn in at the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C. on Jan. 28.

"This is certainly the honor of a lifetime, and I am grateful to President Obama for his leadership in repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no qualified American who wants to serve this country in uniform will ever again be denied that right simply because they are gay or lesbian," Hall said.

The former Airman penned a letter to Obama dated May 13, 2010, in which he questioned the commander-in-chief: "How many more careers will be ruined before we see repeal?"

He ended his message poignantly, saying, "I assure you I am fit for military duty and so are the 66,000 lesbian and gay service members currently serving. Please keep your promise and stop discharging patriotic Americans. I did my part; now, sir, please do yours!"

See a photo of David Hall below, courtesy of OutServe-SLDN, then scroll down to keep reading:

"There is a great deal more to do on the road to full LGBT equality in our military, but it's important for us to take a moment this weekend to honor the leadership of this President and recognize just how far we have come," said Army Veteran and OutServe-SLDN Executive Director Allyson Robinson. "There could be no better personification of that than former Air Force Sergeant David Hall."

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Gay Soldier Discharged Under DADT Gets Major Honor

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In 2002, David Hall was discharged from the U.S. Air Force for being gay under now extinct Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Now, Hall, who serves as OutServe-SLDN's development director and information technology manager, has been named as one of eight Americans as "citizen co-chairs," where he'll watch President Obama get sworn in at the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C.