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Gays Picket Cake Shop Owned by Christian Baker
foxnews.com ^ | 8/7/12 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 08/07/2012 5:23:54 AM PDT by onlylewis

The owner of a Colorado bakery said in spite of picket lines and online petitions he will not change a store policy against baking wedding cakes for homosexual couples – a policy that critics call hateful and bigoted.

More than 4,200 people have signed an online petition calling on the Masterpiece Cake Shop to ends its policy banning gay wedding cakes. Over the weekend, several dozen people picketed the privately-owned store in Lakewood, Colo.

Jack Phillips, the owner of the cake shop, said his ban on making cakes for gay weddings is a result of his religious beliefs.

“I’m not going to change my business because of a petition,” he told the Denver Post. “I’m just going to do the best I can do to honor Jesus Christ.”

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: equalrights; gays; homosexualagenda; smallbusiness
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Why don't all the people that support this man go order a cake to celebrate freedom from intimidation by the homosexual crowd in this nation? Just like people did for Chic-fil-a.
1 posted on 08/07/2012 5:24:04 AM PDT by onlylewis
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To: onlylewis
a policy that critics call hateful and bigoted

Homosexuality makes one look for love in all the wrong places.

Does it also mean that one's irony gene is recessive? What is more hateful and bigoted than attempting to bring financial ruin to someone because their beliefs differ?

2 posted on 08/07/2012 5:27:16 AM PDT by relictele
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To: onlylewis

He will bake birthday cakes for anyone, so he’s not a bigot. He simply will not take part in the ungodly ritual homosexual call “marriages,” but God and most states do not.


3 posted on 08/07/2012 5:29:59 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: onlylewis

How is this any different than the brown-shirts harassing Jewish shop owners in the 30’s?


4 posted on 08/07/2012 5:31:17 AM PDT by theDentist (FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: onlylewis

I sure wish I lived there.


5 posted on 08/07/2012 5:32:40 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: onlylewis

Wonder how the AMWAY boycott is working out? LOL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2914535/posts


6 posted on 08/07/2012 5:33:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: onlylewis

One wonders if they’ll ship cookies by mail.

Just asking.


7 posted on 08/07/2012 5:35:30 AM PDT by ripley
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To: onlylewis

He just needs to BAKE THE CAKE, leave out the sugar, add extra baking soda, and charge them double. Why make a fuss?


8 posted on 08/07/2012 5:35:34 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: theDentist

I was thinking the same thing.

But, actually one step further...OMG, it is starting.

With an open and free marketplace people can make choices. It isn’t like this guy is the only shop in town.


9 posted on 08/07/2012 5:36:53 AM PDT by EBH (Obama took away your American Dreams and replaced them with "Dreams from My (his) Father".)
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To: onlylewis

Donations

Thank you for your support and taking the time to donate.
Please add the name of one of these organizations below to the PURPOSE line of the PayPal form. Donations will be delivered when we can do so.
1. Alternatives Pregnancy Center
2. V. A. Hospital
3. Salvation Army
4. A local Senior Center
5. Children’s Hospital
6. Red Cross
7. Denver Rescue Mission
8. Local Fire Stations
9. Masterpiece Cakeshop’s choice of the above
Donations to Masterpiece Cakeshop are not tax exempt and are considered sales. All due sales taxes will be paid.
Thank you!
 
http://masterpiececakes.com/donations/
 
 
 
 

10 posted on 08/07/2012 5:41:22 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: theDentist

“How is this any different than the brown-shirts harassing Jewish shop owners in the 30’s?”

A bit different; this crop of intimidators likes black clothing with white lettering instead of brown shirts. (Some of them were running around town during the 2008 Presidential campaign, as if they were celebrating the second coming.)

Very disquieting sight.

IMHO


11 posted on 08/07/2012 5:44:32 AM PDT by ripley
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To: ripley
I'm on the east coast. As soon as they open I will check.

"STOP HOMOSEXUAL TERROISM AGAINST NORMAL PEOPLE"

12 posted on 08/07/2012 5:44:42 AM PDT by onlylewis (libs want a two class system, one rich one poor)
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To: ripley; Jim Robinson

>>Just asking.

Dunno about cookies but...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2915522/posts?page=10#10

Anybody else feel like sending a cake or FRew to the VA?


13 posted on 08/07/2012 5:45:36 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: onlylewis
If you don't like a business stand on "XYZ" then shop elsewhere. Lots of business I will not shop, because they openly support the homo agenda. Last I checked I have the right to an opinion.

You don't like my opinion OK, I don't have to like yours either. I am so tired of the media, calling me intolerant and hateful because I disapprove of an unnatural destructive behavior.
I disapprove of drug use, does that make me intolerant of potheads? is that hate speech?
If people would let their own morals judge how they spent money, everything would work out just fine. You want to support only black, female, lesbian owned business then do so. Personally I will spend a little more to support Christian owned shops.

I do not have homophobia. Phobia= fear. I am not afraid of homos, in fact just the opposite, I fear for them.

/soapbox

14 posted on 08/07/2012 5:47:16 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: onlylewis

So will I.


15 posted on 08/07/2012 5:47:32 AM PDT by ripley
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To: ripley; theDentist

Q:“How is this any different than the brown-shirts harassing Jewish shop owners in the 30’s?”

A: http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm

Same Ol’


16 posted on 08/07/2012 5:49:07 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: OldEarlGray

Thanks for the link! Hope everyone will take a look and support this business!


17 posted on 08/07/2012 5:49:22 AM PDT by onlylewis (libs want a two class system, one rich one poor)
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To: onlylewis

Welcome FRiend.


18 posted on 08/07/2012 5:51:29 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
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To: OldEarlGray

Bump


19 posted on 08/07/2012 5:53:17 AM PDT by Roses0508 (th)
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