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Supreme Court takes case on cake for same-sex marriage [Colorado Case]
Washington Examiner ^ | Jun 26, 2017, 9:36 AM | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 06/26/2017 8:17:29 AM PDT by GonzoII

The Supreme Court decided Monday to hear a case involving a Colorado baker's refusal to design and make a cake for a same-sex marriage.

The baker, Jake Phillips, declined to make the custom cake and said it conflicted with his religious beliefs. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission decided that Phillips' actions amounted to sexual orientation discrimination under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; scotus; scotzs
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To: Kazan

It’s the decision that counts.

We’ll see.


21 posted on 06/26/2017 8:55:28 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: BAW
What they really want is a Christian baker to REFUSE so the law suits and court cases ensue.

Clearly. In real life, who would want to buy a cake from someone who is being forced to make it for them?

"I hate you. Here is the cake you forced me to make for you to eat. Enjoy."

22 posted on 06/26/2017 8:55:29 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Principled

And, the bakery didn’t refuse service to a person because they were homo, they refused a service that they wouldn’t provide to anyone. If a homo just wanted a cake that said “Happy Birthday”, they’d get it, just like anyone else.

I’d like to see the case where someone goes to a black-owned bakery and demands that they make a cake saying “White Power”.


23 posted on 06/26/2017 8:55:48 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: lurk

Muslims get away with all kinds of discrimination in this country, and even in the leftist bastion of Canada. The left won’t mess with people who will physically fight back. Hypocritical bullies.


24 posted on 06/26/2017 8:57:20 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GonzoII

Gorsuch may use this case to show he is pro gay rights.


25 posted on 06/26/2017 8:57:51 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: GonzoII

They should have bake the cake and loaded it up with laxative. That would have given the fags a memorable wedding night


26 posted on 06/26/2017 8:58:23 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: lurk

“Any bakery owned by muslins would refuse a homosexual cake. But they don’t get targeted, baited, entrapped or fined by social justice commissions.”

Excellent point. If we lose this case, we should set up a muslim bakery the same way these people were set up, and watch what happens.


27 posted on 06/26/2017 9:01:33 AM PDT by _longranger81 (In a Yadda-Yadda Da-Vita, Baby)
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To: yoe

>>double standards.

The only "standard" is the facilitation of the end game of Cultural Marxism:  The destruction of existing culture so the social engineering process can fill the vacuum.

 

Here is our progressive, "spiritual", tolerant, inclusive, opinion

- now you shut up and agree to disagree...

you nazis!

[IDIOTS REACT TO MAN WITH SIGN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL0tRHvBlQQ

 

[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM&t=18m 

28 posted on 06/26/2017 9:01:41 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Democrats hate too much

Yep.

That would be consistent with the doctrine of the religious organization he put his family under the purview of.


29 posted on 06/26/2017 9:03:38 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Zarro

The Hobby Lobby decision gives hope that the SC will rethink this nonsense. Sooner or later muslims will be targeted by big gay and that will probably force the issue.


30 posted on 06/26/2017 9:06:22 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I think the real reason for these actions is to socially engineer acceptance of this lifestyle or resist and face economic ruin.


31 posted on 06/26/2017 9:16:38 AM PDT by 31R1O
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To: 31R1O

Frankly, I don’t see either of those things happening as a result of dumb lawsuits like this.


32 posted on 06/26/2017 9:24:23 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Sacajaweau

Cool. Have a great day!!!!


33 posted on 06/26/2017 9:25:18 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I saw two business owners in Oregon ruined by these type of lawsuits and following sanctions. Sweetcakes by Melissa and the Twilight Room nightclub.


34 posted on 06/26/2017 9:34:07 AM PDT by 31R1O
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To: GonzoII

We should’ve been there all along.


35 posted on 06/26/2017 9:39:13 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: lurk

Liberals have been fighting conservatives in a culture war for a century. They see Muslims as poor, backward oppressed people, hence their reflexive and excessive sympathy for them. They also use Muslims as allies in the culture war, since a Muslim joining atheists for saying “take down those Christian symbols” can’t be called an attack by atheists when a Muslim deist is involved.
The horrible irony is that liberals think they can convert Muslims to liberal secularism, when Muslims have far more history and a much stronger, reinforcing memeplex. So very few Muslims convert to liberal secularism, for fear of their very lives. But liberals keep “accommodating” Muslims while importing them, naively or deliberately ignoring the fact they aren’t assimilating to either traditional Judeo-Christian culture or liberal secular ones. Or they think that Muslims citing multiculturalism to exploit our weakness and weaponized empathy are assimilating, instead of using our social system against us.
Liberals end up bringing in people far more antithetical to liberal secular values than Judeo-Christian Westerners or even Asians and Christian Africans, while at the same time giving them prayer space in public facilities and segregating by gender, excusing Muslim abuse of women and hiding reports of Muslim rape gangs.
Their excess of empathy and misplaced compassion leads to direct undermining of liberal secular society, whether Western women are afraid to go out at night for fear of gang rape or walk uncovered for fear of acid attacks. Attacks on Jews and homosexuals are skyrocking in the EU. And liberal secularists double down on the appeasement - if we just arrest those criticizing Islam, they’ll stop making demands and stop hurting people!
Liberals are replicating the martyr syndrome of the battered wife, defending her husband’s reputation in the hope of redeeming him or preventing a beating and refusing to act because action would be as immoral as his beating her. But it is on a civilization scale. It is also enabled by liberals reflexively using the increased police state not to monitor mosques and end Islamic oppression in the West but arresting their long time rivals conservatives instead.
You see the same thing in the revived “Handmaids’ Tale” with liberals seriously believing that Christians are just waiting to set up an oppressive theocracy, a Christian boogeyman, while ignoring Shariah law doing all that’s in that book and more (killing homosexuals, state sanctioned rape) in Iran, Saudi Arabia, ISIS territories.
Their irrational hatred of traditional Western society blinds them to the evils Islam is committing today, and multiculturalism as an empty faith causes them to defend Islam, such as “but the Crusades” or “that one Christian terrorist last year”.
False immoral equivalence, but they don’t want to admit the horrors they are enabling. That would require admitting their desire to do good is enabling evil and they overwhelmingly derive both their identities and morality from liberalism. No, better to engage in a savior complex to save the Muslims and try to radiate even more love in the desperate hope it reforms Islam because it costs too much emotionally to admit you imported and then enabled the Islamic terrorists.


36 posted on 06/26/2017 10:08:34 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: GonzoII

How can there be discrimination if the baker refused all requests from all sodomites?

All sodomites are treated equally.


37 posted on 06/26/2017 10:22:59 AM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (A Irredeemable Deplorable Texan)
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To: 31R1O

“Sweetcakes by Melissa” WOULDN’T bake the cake??


38 posted on 06/26/2017 11:12:44 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/10/sweet_cakes_by_melissa_bakery.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/04/twilight_room_annex_will_close.html


39 posted on 06/26/2017 11:25:49 AM PDT by 31R1O
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To: TangledUpInBlue

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/10/sweet_cakes_by_melissa_bakery.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/04/twilight_room_annex_will_close.html


40 posted on 06/26/2017 11:26:31 AM PDT by 31R1O
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