Christian bakery guilty of violating civil rights of lesbian couple

foxnews.com ^ | 1/21/14 | Todd Starnes

[GSWarrior]

I wait in anticipation for someone to approach a gay owned bakery and order a cake with the inscription God Hates Fags.

[BwanaNdege]

[Chickensoup]

Somerville, Cambridge, Andover, Stockbridge, Newton...any other Mass leftist hellholes?

[cuban leaf]

Your post nails my biggest problem with issues such as this one. The implications today are that if you own a business you have forfeited your first amendment rights and right to freedom of association.

Which, of course, is preposterous. The owners of that bakery should get the ACLU to take up their case. It is actually possible they would, if it were not for the threats they would then get from the 21st century lynch mob.

[Albion Wilde]

There was a case brought by the so-called Human Rights Commission in Philadelphia against the owner of a renowned and long-established cheese steak shop in the Italian Market because the owner posted a sign saying "Order in English." His parents had immigrated from Italy and he felt no shame in requiring his customers to speak the language of the land. The struggle came to widespread media and Internet attention, and finally he won his case. But it added a lot of misery to his final years and he died of a heart attack soon after the case was settled.

[Chickensoup]

Your post nails my biggest problem with issues such as this one. The implications today are that if you own a business you have forfeited your first amendment rights and right to freedom of association.

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That issue ended in 1963 with the Civil Rights act. These are the very reasons it was fought so hard. It wasn’t all about the blacks, it was about the future.

[Albion Wilde]

Christian bakery guilty of violating civil rights of lesbian couple

If they can get a pro bono law firm to take their case and investigate the efforts made by the lesbian couple to persecute them, they may be able to countersue. And I hope this comes to pass. These kind of abuses will not stop until the Supreme Court hears... oh, wait...

[prof.h.mandingo]

We can rant and rave all we want and it will not change the situation. We have to use the system as it is at the present. That is why Presidential elections are so important.
This is a classic case of conflict between two amendments, the 1st and the 14th. Lets hope the 1st wins the battle.
We can cry all we want but from Marbury on the Supreme Court has the ability to determine what the Constitution says.

[DJ MacWoW]

The states, Jefferson wrote, “have the unquestionable right to judge of [the Constitution’s] infraction; and that a nullification, by [the states], of all unauthorized acts done under color of [the Constitution], is the rightful remedy.”

[DJ MacWoW]

In the wake of Marbury v Madison, Jefferson wrote, in a letter to Abigail Adams, "... the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch." Simply put: if the Supreme Court has the power to say what is and is not constitutional, there is no limit to the court's power (and hence, to that of FedGov).

[Mears]

“. How does one identify a Liberal bakery?”

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Location,location,location.

Cambridge,MA;Northampton,MA;Ithaca,NY;and Berkeley,CA.

All liberal hells.

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[mosesdapoet]

This goes back to Jim Crowe days when blacks were refused service in restaurants and bars simply because they were black. During the civil rights push a slew of laws were passed particularly in northern states where this was occuring because it was a generalized practice despite the fact segregation wasn’t the law.

How this becomes extended from refusing to service to someone simply because of and no other reason offered the the color of their skin. To refusal of goods or services to someone promoting a questionable sexual activity or acts as an advocate for that matter to any other specific advocacy which that proprieter is opposed to; was not the intent of that law.

[lurk]

One wonders if this issue would be going this way if the bakers were muslim.

[prof.h.mandingo]

Yes they are LETTERS. Until we are in a position with conservative justices to overturn these decisions will anything change. Rant and rave and quoting letters will get us nowhere. We claim to support the idea of a nation of laws. Well we have to suck it up and do what has to be done to get the laws changed. That means supporting as many conservative candidates as we can. Support means using our time and money to help these candidates.

[DJ MacWoW]

Madison and Jefferson helped Kentucky and Virginia nullify a law. They aren't just letters. Check your history. The states have the power and precedent.

[MrB]

Actually, the ACLU has already weighed in on your question.
And their answer is that they would NOT indeed go after a Muslim baker for refusing to serve homosexuals.

[fwdude]

The Gaystapo is even more vicious than the Nazi Regime. I know that’s a tall order, but they have managed to top the most fascist nationalist movement of the 20th Century.

[a fool in paradise]

>>"The backlash against Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of the bakery, was severe. Gay rights groups launched protests and pickets outside the family’s store. They threatened wedding vendors who did business with the bakery. And, Klein told me, the family’s children were the targets of death threats. The family eventually had to close their retail shop and now operate the bakery out of their home."

This just highlights the evil, no holes barred, viscous approach radical homosexuals take to anyone who dares to defy their crusade. They cannot and will not tolerate any dissension at all because they know they are doomed if they do. Liberal claptrap about "tolerance, compassion, open mindedness, diversity" and such are only reserved for their fellow travelers.

So the lavender mafia can deny the observant Christians access to goods and services without prosecution from the State?

What faggotry.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE??

They sell baked goods and custom cakes?

[dps.inspect]

He fought the good fight...