Happy June 1st!

Wow! can you believe its already June! where has the year gone!















Meshell Ndegeocello is back with a new Cd
Comet, Come To Me what I have heard from it its pretty Hot!

for those not familiar with here here is a little info! 

Meshell Ndegeocello

• Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, and has had ten career Grammy Award nominations. She has been credited for having "sparked the neo-soul movement."

 Colorado Baker Now Has to Make Wedding Cakes for Gay Couples

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Colorado Baker Now Has to Make Wedding Cakes for Gay Couples

In 2012, Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig sued Colorado baker Jack Phillips for refusing to bake a cake for their wedding. Today, Colorado's Civil Rights Commission ruled that Phillips did violate civil rights law by doing so. A judge found the same in December; today's seven-member panel just agreed. 

Phillips, who claims he's gotten local support for refusing to bake cakes for gay people, is not pleased. "I will stand by my convictions until somebody shuts me down," he told the AP after the ruling. But the Commission says he has to bake for everyone now. Phillips owns the Masterpiece Cakeshop in the Denver suburb of Lakewood and is a self-identified devout Christian. 

This ruling underscores the piecemeal way gay rights have come to be recognized in the U.S. Gay marriage is currently illegal in Colorado, but now it's also illegal to refuse to bake a cake for a gay marriage. Mullins and Craig, at least, are happy with today's ruling. "We're just thrilled," Mullins said.

Florida Attorney General Pam

Bondi: Gay Marriage Would Cause Harm

This women is concerned with  gay marriage doing harm....Really? this coming from the state that George Zimmerman could kill a innocent kid and allowed to walk free and she is worried about gay marriage!!!!!  sounds to me its more personal than law! Ms Bondi what about equality for all how does that fit in your law books?

• The attorney general of Florida says in court documents that recognizing same sex marriages performed in other states would disrupt existing marriage laws and "impose significant public harm."

Eight gay couples and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the state in federal court in March. The lawsuit argues Florida is discriminating against the couples by not recognizing same-sex marriages performed in states where they are legal.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican who was named in the lawsuit along with fellow GOP Gov. Rick Scott and other state officials, earlier this month filed a lengthy response that asks a federal judge to throw out the lawsuit for several reasons, saying a federal court shouldn't rule on a state's marriage laws.
Bondi's office also argues that the state has a legitimate interest in defining marriage as between a man and woman. Florida first banned same-sex marriages nearly two decades ago and voters reinforced that ban when they passed a constitutional amendment in 2008.
"Florida's marriage laws, then, have a close, direct, and rational relationship to society's legitimate interest in increasing the likelihood that children will be born to and raised by the mothers and fathers who produced them in stable and enduring family units," Bondi's office said in court documents.
The state's legal position also notes that there would be significant financial and logistical problems for the state's pension and health insurance programs if same-sex marriages were recognized.
The lead attorney for the ACLU of Florida disagreed.
"Florida's discriminatory laws cause serious harm to real families across the state," attorney Daniel Tilley said in a statement. "Despite the state's assertion that the harms to same-sex married couples aren't significant enough to warrant relief, the families living every day being treated like legal strangers by their home state know better."
Scott earlier this year said he supports Florida's constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, but added that he "does not believe that anyone should be discriminated against for any reason."
The lawsuit in Florida is part of a groundswell of challenges in the gay marriage debate.
Several federal judges have ruled in support of same-sex marriage since the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law.

Colorado Bakery Opposed To Gay Marriage Gets Out Of The Wedding Cake Business

The Colorado bakery that was ordered to bake a cake for a same-sex ceremony apparently is no longer making cakes for any weddings.
In December, a state judge found that Masterpiece Cakeshop in the Denver area cannot legally refuse service to a customer — in this case, declining to sell a wedding cake — on the basis of sexual orientation. Despite the store owner’s religious objections, his policy violated Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act, the judge concluded.
Owner Jack Phillips appealed the judge’s ruling to the seven-member Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which yesterday unanimously upheld the judge’s decision.
Anyone interested in buying a wedding cake from Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Lakewood will be out of luck as a result. “[The ruling] prompted Phillips to decide he would no longer make any wedding cakes. He said he would be fine selling cupcakes for a birthday party for someone who is gay but added, ‘I don’t want to participate in a same-sex wedding.’”

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As part of the commission’s decision, the bakery will be required “to change its policy, provide staff training, and report quarterly to confirm that the business does not turn away customers due to sexual orientation.”
Colorado currently does not recognize same-sex marriage.
Phillips, a devout Christian who doesn’t believe in gay marriage, is considering an appeal to a higher court. His attorney, Nicolle Martin, claimed that state officials are violating Phillips’ freedom of religion and of speech under the First Amendment and that “A human rights tribunal has no authority to trump the United States Constitution.” Added Phillips, “I will stand by my convictions until somebody shuts me down.”
The bakery reportedly is making plenty of money selling cakes for other occasions, as well as cupcakes and cookies.

The couple whose experience prompted the case said they were thrilled with the Civil Rights Commission decision, but vowed not to do business with Masterpiece Cakeshop. Said David Mullins, “We’ve already been discriminated against. The whole point of this case … is that the next time a gay couple wanders in and asks for a wedding cake, they won’t have the same experience that we had. They will have a professional experience and will feel they were respected.”
Setting aside your views on same-sex marriage and/or the First Amendment if possible, it’s likely that there are many bakeries in the Denver area. In general, when a consumer is unhappy with store a, the consumer often takes his or her business to store b or store c. As a practical matter, would that approach have been better or worse in this instance, rather than getting the courts involved?

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