http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/10/foxs-hasselbeck-are-gay-rights-the-death-of-fre/197220
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Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck interviewed the owner of a Colorado bakery who was recently found to have violated the state’s non-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, asking if he believed his rights had been violated by efforts to prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination.
During the December 10 edition of Fox & Friends, Hasselbeck invited Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Denver, to discuss a recent ruling by a Colorado judge that found that Phillips had violated that state’s law against discrimination when he refused to serve a same-sex couple. Phillips was joined by his attorney Nicolle Martin, who does volunteer work at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a group notorious for pushing for the criminalization of homosexuality internationally.
During the segment – which featured a graphic declaring “The Death Of Free Enterprise” – Hasselbeck asked Phillips why he believed he shouldn’t have to abandon his “personal religious beliefs just to make a buck.”
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Fox’s “death of free enterprise” framing isn’t surprising. The network has spent the last several months championing business owners who choose to discriminate against gay customers, falsely pitting basic LGBT equality against an extreme and legally baseless conception of religious liberty.
From the 12.10.2013 edition of FNC’s Fox and Friends:
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