Posted on 12/05/2017 2:21:07 AM PST by markomalley
The Supreme Court is taking up the highly anticipated case of the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Tuesday’s clash at the high court pits baker Jack Phillips’ First Amendment claims of artistic freedom against the anti-discrimination arguments of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and two men Phillips turned away in 2012.
The commission ruled that Phillips violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when he refused to make a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins.
The argument is the first involving gay rights since the Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that states could not prevent same-sex couples from marrying.
The Trump administration is supporting Phillips in his argument that he can’t be forced to create a cake that violates his religious beliefs. It appears to be the first time the federal government has asked the justices to carve out an exception from an anti-discrimination law.
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“Gay rights”. When did it become a right to force others to do things they don’t want? That’s what “gay rights” is all about I think. Not the right to do what they want, the power for force others to do what they don’t want.
>>Tuesday’s clash at the high court pits baker Jack Phillips’ First Amendment claims of artistic freedom against the anti-discrimination arguments of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and two men Phillips turned away in 2012.
Same sex marriage wasn’t even recognized by Colorado in 2012 (not until 2014).
How can you be compelled by the state to produce a wedding cake when the state itself does not recognize the wedding or marriage???
The objective is destruction of the traditional family, and squashing people of faith.
I agree... The whole pageantry of the thing is one of force and idolizing it. If it’s to be permitted to carry on, please I hope our government will not require the unwilling to be caught up in it.
Catching up the unwilling is what takes it from a closet activity towards a Sodom-grade activity.
But he didnt refuse to make a cake for 2 homosexual men
He refused to make a cake for a homosexual ceremony
If 2 straight people wanted to order a homosexual ceremony cake he woulda denied them too
If the lads wanted a birthday cake I’m sure he woulda baked one for them
> When did it become a right to force others to do things they
> don’t want? That’s what “gay rights” is all about I think.
> Not the right to do what they want, the power for force
> others to do what they don’t want.
Best distillation of the problem I’ve seen.
Bears repeating.
The left wants to force people to choose between their job and their faith. By making them go against their faith, they hope to destroy their faith.
A fine line that the court will have to take into consideration.
Did they refuse to sell him a cake? Or did they refuse to embellish the cake with words that conscience wouldn’t allow them to use? Methinks there’s a difference.
That is an argument that could be used against the baker as well.
What can you say about the sodomites. They have regained the power of their glory days in Sodom as the enemies of decency, the purveyors of diseases of mind and body, and the open hatred for Christians.
Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court will side with the plaintiffs using the rationale it is not lawful to refuse to sell to blacks. I agree with your sentiments, I just do not foresee a favorable decision.
Militant homosexuality wants to eliminate Christianity since they will not celebrate their lifestyle.
Agree, except you left out access to children.
By your reasoning, I should not have to serve black people at my lunch counter, allow interracial couples to ride in my taxi, let Asian people rent one of my cars, or provide a room to Hispanic people at my hotel.
Behavior is NOT ancestry.
It is what these people DO that violates the religious conscience.
NOT their ancestry.
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