It doesn’t take a great deal of sophistication, expertise, or vision to destroy somebody else’s work. Like a sledgehammer on demolition day, it doesn’t take much to damage the reputation of a company, group, or public figure. Often a false accusation will do the job, especially in this social-media age.

The oral arguments the Arizona Supreme Court heard today on a Phoenix anti-discrimination ordinance centered on a what a message conveys.

The Arizona Supreme Court court is poised to decide exactly how far business owners can go in refusing to serve customers because of their sexual orientation.

The city of Phoenix is fighting back against a bid by a Christian law firm to get the state's high court to conclude that businesses have a right to refuse to provide certain services to gays.

A Christian law firm is making a last-ditch effort to convince the state's high court that businesses -- at least some of them -- have a constitutional right to refuse to sell their services and products to gays.

The state Court of Appeals has rejected arguments by owners of a Phoenix business that a city ordinance that bars them from refusing to design wedding invitations for same-sex couples violates their constitutional and religious rights.

A conservative non-profit that last year won a First Amendment victory at the U.S. Supreme Court for a Gilbert pastor is now challenging the free speech policy of Paradise Valley Community College.

The gay rights movement is going to try to parlay 2014 successes in the courts and Legislature into outlawing discrimination statewide.

Attorneys for the state are using a largely technical argument in a last-ditch effort to salvage Arizona’s laws that prohibit gays from marrying.

Attorneys for the state are warning a federal judge that fewer “straight” couples will marry and existing marriages will become less stable if he allows gays to wed.