How a Cake Maker Became a Christian-Right Hero

FEATURING SARAH POSNER – On Tuesday the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a major case around religious freedom that has made its way through the legal system over several years. At the heart of the case is the right of a Colorado cake maker named Jack Phillips to not design cakes for people who he feels are violating his religious beliefs – namely same sex couples seeking to get married.

Backing Phillips is a well-funded organization called Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Now, a new investigation by reporter Sarah Posner has uncovered the veritable army of lawyers that ADF trains and deploys to further its religious fundamentalist agenda.

Read Sarah’s article on The Nation ‘The Christian Legal Army Behind ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’, HERE.

GUEST: Sarah Posner, reporter with the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Her 2008 book is entitled God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.