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MILLION DOLLAR PRIZE: Anti-Christian Hate Funded By Leftist Foundations with Mega Lottery "Grants"

The Catholic News Agency has just released a major report on how the multi-million dollar Hate Christians effort is tax deductible and rich liberals write off donations as foundations give it all away to fight religious liberty, says Eugene Delgaudio President Of Public Advocate.

The CNA reports:

Some opponents of broad religious freedom protections have spent over $500,000 on advocacy and public relations campaigns related to the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court decision, a CNA analysis of recent foundation grantmaking has found.

The spending is among at least $2.4 million in new anti-religious freedom grants since October 2017, according to CNA's analysis. Since 2014 at least $9.9 million in grants from multiple sources have been earmarked to oppose religious freedom protections. The grants generally come from backers of LGBT political causes, legal abortion and mandatory contraception coverage.

After a six-year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court backed Phillips, the bakery owner, who in July 2012 had declined a request to create a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding due to his religious beliefs. The court ruled 7-2 in his favor in the June 4, 2018, decision Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

While the state civil rights board had ordered him to serve same-sex weddings and undergo anti-discrimination training, the Supreme Court overruled the order, saying some commissioners "showed elements of a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs motivating his objection." The decision did not address broad constitutional questions.

That court case was the focus of the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, a San Francisco-based private family foundation with half a billion dollars in assets. Its website lists multiple grants from 2017 and 2018 dedicated to messaging related to the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case.

The Haas, Jr. Fund gave $200,000 to the National Center for Lesbian Rights for a campaign to "educate the LGBT community" about the importance of the case, and $100,000 to the Equality Federation Institute for the same purpose. It gave $100,000 to the Movement Advancement Project, a key LGBT strategy and communications think tank funded by Colorado entrepreneur Tim Gill, "to develop and test ads and other tools to educate and engage the LGBT community" about the case.

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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/masterpiece-cakeshop-case-drew-500k-in-grants-from-religious-freedom-foes-81744