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I am sure most of you have heard about the Supreme Court case involving a man's refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple in Colorado.  Fox News  adds that this disagreement began in 2012, so it has been six years coming. This case, Masterpi ece Cakesho p vs Colorado Civil Rights Commission, is just one of many ongoing debates regarding the issue of gay rights and religious practices/any type of opinion against same sex marriage. From the Daily Signal The legislative issues behind this case is the debate between first amendment rights and discrimination. Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, claims that according to his first amendment rights he is legally allowed to refuse service because making cakes are a version of self expression/art. So Jack is saying that the state of Colorado forcing him to make this cake is an infringement of his right to free speech and free expression of religion. In his official statement on  Alliance Defending Freedom , h...

Transgenders face a number of issues, one I already discussed being the disagreement on whether being transgender is a mental illness or an identity. Aside from that, when they complete their transition you'd think they would be content and finally happy. But that isn't the case at all. They are still challenged with discrimination, for example, the use of bathrooms. Bathrooms have always been an area of debate in America's history for people of color, people with disabilities and for now people that don't identify with their biological sex. Ashton Whitaker , from Kenosha, Wisconsin just recently settled a lawsuit with the Wisconsin School District in which he was paid $800,000 for his degrading experiences within the high school. He was told by administrators and teachers at his school that he wasn't allowed to use the boy's bathroom, even though that was the gender that he identified with. They also used female pronouns despite Whitaker's request to be i...