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Best of 2018. #2 Bring your fussy child to church day

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As 2018 comes to a close, I am sharing some of my top posts from this year. 

Christian comedian John Crist shared this photo on Instagram this weekend that’s gone viral. The photo is a card from a church, apparently meant to be distributed to parents of fussy children, instructing them that a “connection team member” would assist them in leaving the sanctuary during worship.

It’s a sad commentary on the American church that we shame parents for bringing their kids and their kids…acting like kids in a church service.

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Colorado baker who refused to bake a same-sex wedding cake now has to defend himself for not baking a gender transition cake

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Few people can say that they’ve had a case go to the Supreme Court. Jack Phillips can. He’s the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple in 2012. The couple took this to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission who ruled in favor of the couple.

According to the Supreme Court, the case addressed whether Colorado’s public accommodations law “violates the First Amendment as applied to an individual who declines to design and create custom wedding cakes for same-sex wedding celebrations that violate his sincerely held religious beliefs.”

In a 7-2 ruling, the court ruled in favor of Phillips.

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