Plus: What You Should Know About Jack Phillips' Latest Religious Liberty Case
May 11 2021
Good morning from Washington, where we have details on the questionable behavior of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., during a 2019 visit to a Border Patrol station. Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, we get an update on the legal woes of Jack Phillips, the Christian baker who chooses not to compromise his beliefs, from one of his longtime lawyers. Plus: what redefining “sex” means for doctors; a challenge to China at the World Bank; and “inclusive” math doesn’t add up. Forty years ago today, Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley, 36, dies of cancer in a Miami hospital, just as his music with the Wailers is becoming popular in America.
An “agitated and animated” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began “pointing and screaming” at a female agent during a 2019 visit to a Border Patrol station, according to government documents.
Christian baker Jack Phillips, whose case about a same-sex wedding cake went to the Supreme Court, is now being sued for declining to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
“This policy is really about forcing hospitals and medical professionals to adhere to leftist ideology regarding sexuality and gender,” says American Principles Project’s Terry Schilling.
A group of conservative U.S. senators introduces legislation that would prevent China from continuing to exploit its “developing country” status at the World Bank.
The U.S. maintains that the International Criminal Court doesn’t have jurisdiction over former officials, since the U.S. isn’t a party to the treaty creating the court.
