Even when they lose, they win. The Christians win the SCOTUS hearing, but it's practically a technical win only. They've lost their fortunes during the long legal battle -- the process is the punishment.
In the 1980s I worked for city govt. Gay female boss told me many times that Denver would become a gay Mecca. She subsequently became involved in law, became a judge, etc. That’s why I don’t like Colorado and I want to leave.
“The Christians win the SCOTUS hearing, but it’s practically a technical win only. They’ve lost their fortunes during the long legal battle — the process is the punishment.”
But hasn’t the SC already decided this in the first bake-the-cake ruling? There must be some way for current and future business owners to stop Colorado dead in its tracks without having to go through the process over and over again.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. The rule of law is dead.
Lawfare … no matter if you win the case by bankrupting you they win the war.
And if there ever was a case in which SCOTUS could have made it clear that one can refuse to create special works for moral reasons then Masterpiece was it. provide Jack Phillips offered them anything available to the general public, but just as he had refuse to create a special work to celebrate divorce, so he also refused to be complicit (a legal terms) in the celebration of an immoral and illegal (as per the highest law of the state at the time, the CO constitution) sexual union/marriage,
However, since SCOTUS already had greatly erred in essentially making homosexuality to be like a matter of race, then the baker/artist is deemed to be a criminal if he refuses to create a special work to celebrate any homosexual events just as he would be to deny the same on racial grounds. When SCOTUS (by 5-4) got into bed with homosexuals they did not much contemplate what this would all give birth to.
Thank you for posting Tell It Right.
The states have given Congress the express 14th Amendment power to make penal laws to discourage the states from abridging rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect.
Excerpted from the 14th Amendment:
Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
To address your question, the problem is that, as a consequence of voters being asleep at the wheel for the last century, we have a post-17th Amendment ratification Congress that is not only as corrupt as some states are, desperate federal Democratic and RINO lawmakers stubbornly refusing to do their duty to protect constitutionally enumerated rights from abridgment by the states, but neither will career lawmakers impeach and remove activist Supreme Court justices that ignore constitutionally enumerated rights.
In fact, since constitutionally savvy school children probably could have appropriately decided this case, particularly since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect politically correct, Democratic vote-winning LGBT "rights," the question is why did this case go all the way to the Supreme Court?
The bottom line is that pro-LGBT activist justices know that they have job security thanks to a corrupt Congress divided by likewise corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties.
Hopefully Trump's red tsunami of patriot voters will weed Democrats and RINOs out of Congress this election year.
Patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this year. Their first vote is to primary RINO incumbents. Their second vote is to replace outgoing RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Corrections, insights welcome.