Primary Education Topic:
Policy and Advocacy
Other Education Topics:
Leadership in Aging
Legal & Ethical Issues
LGBTQ Aging
Following the Supreme Court’s 2015 marriage equality decision, many LGBT elders dared to believe that they could live out the remainder of their days in dignity, as full and equal citizens.
By Michael Adams, Robert Blancato and Jack Nadler
When Jack Phillips, owner of the Denver-based Masterpiece Cakeshop, told a young gay couple that he would not sell them a wedding cake because he has a religious objection to same-sex marriage, he set in motion a chain of events that led from an encounter in his bakeshop to a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court.