Posted on 07/29/2014 8:14:09 AM PDT by xzins
Jack is my baker. If you knew Jack, as I have for nearly 20 years, you would know he would never purposely make a bad cake. He is proud of his “art” and does an incredible job. He has made me everything from foot long Macaws, to motorcyles, “drunken” tulips (21st birthday) and peacocks. He is a good kind man and does not deserve the treatment he is getting. I have a feeling that Jack will be teaching them a thing about tolerance.
Shut the business down and restart as something else.
# the state and its statist scumbags.
There's the rub; the supreme communist has already declared: "You didn't build that"
The idea that you did something without them, that you are somehow independent, is abhorrent.
I think you’re missing the point. They would bake for the gay couple. They had no problem cooking for the gays. They objected a “gay wedding cake”. They said their shop doesn’t make that kind of cake.
There’s a very simple and elegant solution to this:
He agrees to bake the cake. But upfront tells the couple that all profits will be donated to a Christian organization that provides Gay Conversion Therapy. He can even offer to provide the donation in their name, if they’d like him to.
The problem will quickly solve itself.
Also, we need to deliberately hire homosexual signmakers to make signs for our protest rallies . . . and sue them if they discriminate. Just to get the opposite test case on the table.
Shalom.
As easy as it is to do an LLC online, they could change their business every year without changing their location. That would be a fun dodge.
But the real issue here is that they’re being told to report on how they’re complying with an order to keep their beliefs out of their business.
If I will make all kinds of other cakes but do not make gay wedding cakes, then who should tell me I have to or be arrested?
Why not tell the auto dealer that he must sell bicycles? Some people, you know, just don’t believe in internal combustion. You sell transportation, then you must sell to them, too.
“He must also re-educate his staff about Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act. Under that law, artists must endorse all views. “
Then they aren’t artists anymore. Art has apparently been outlawed in Colorado.
“While I don’t agree with the decision, I don’t understand why the shop owners don’t make a hidious cake for these customers.”
They don’t want to leave this battle for someone else to fight in the courts, I think. Someone has to do it, and God bless these folks for having the courage to stand their ground.
Is there a difference between ‘refuse to do’ AND ‘don’t do that kind’?
I do regular brownies, but I ‘don’t do peanut butter brownies’.
I do garlic bread, but I don’t do ‘pumpkin seed bread.’
I do wedding cakes, but I don’t do a ‘gay wedding cake.’
This is no different than having a requirement to bow to the Golden Calf whenever the “Diversity” music is played. Good for him for disobeying. No King, but King Jesus!
That’s funny, his staff for the last o’ 20 years or so has included his daughter. I think she knows exactly how valuable this “re-education” is.
masterpiececakeshop@msn.com
Well that was a malarkey accusation. He is happy to serve customers regardless of their 'sexual orientation' - because he should not even know the customer's sexual orientation. He just refuses to make cakes that have messages on them that he - the baker and owner - finds offensive.
Would the Colorado Commission take Mr. Phillips to task if he refused to make a cake that had white hooded Klansmen (modeled after Grand Keagle Robert Byrd) lynching a black man? He'd be infringing on the Klan's right to free speech -- for consistency sake the Commission should insist that the baker should provide that product also. They'd be wrong -- as they are for insisting that a Christian baker bakes a cake celebrating a sodomite liaison.
The federal government ended those freedoms in the 60s as it dismantled segregation with laws many so called righties like Hannity and looney Beck trumpet
Then someone needs to gin up a sting for these bastards. Find a gay owned flower shop, for instance and order Nazi and KKK themed floral displays. Let’s see whether or not they enforce the law in this case.
Gettin’ a couple of OT accounts mixed together there, but we get the point.
The company I work for started the b.s. called “diversity” training only a few months before I retired in 1999, large company and attendance was mandatory.
I missed the class three different times, boss knew I was about to retire and left me alone about it. Wink and a nod type situation.
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