Posted on 06/05/2018 6:59:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jack Phillips maintains he would 'serve everybody that comes in my shop,' but that he wouldn't 'create cakes for every message.'
The baker at the center of a Supreme Court ruling that he cannot be forced to make a cake for a same-sex wedding told “Today” on Tuesday that he doesn’t “discriminate” against anybody and that he simply doesn't want to bake cakes “for every message” — saying that he would also refuse to create a dessert that insulted the LGBTQ community.
Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cake in Denver, had argued that his cakes are works of art and that requiring him to bake them for same-sex weddings would force him to express a view that violated his religious beliefs. And in a narrow 7-2 decision, the high court said legal proceedings in Colorado had shown a hostility to the baker's religious views.
Phillips, however, maintained during an interview with “Today,” that he would “serve everybody.”
“It's just that i don't create cakes for every occasion they ask me to create,” he said.
“I don't discriminate against anybody, I serve everybody that comes in my shop,” Phillips said. “ I don't create cakes for every message that people ask me to create.”
“This cake is a specific cake, a wedding cake is an inherently religious event and the cake is definitely a specific message,” Phillips said, explaining his objection to making the wedding cake for the same-sex wedding.
But Phillips said there were several other messages he would never agree to put on any of his cakes — including anything that would disparage a member of the LGBTQ community.
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” And in a narrow 7-2 decision, “ ..Narrow???
You never bring your Lada to Cadillac Dealer to get it fixed ,LOL
They would never ever ask a muslim to do this
The LGBTQRXTUVWXZY fascists just wanted an example... without regard for any facts or truth. Sorta like in the French Revolution when people were grabbed off the street and taken to the guillotine... all about the reign of terror show, not anything resembling justice.
In their fervor to punish, I caution “progressives” with the examples of Haman of the Book of Esther and Max Robespierre of the French Revolution... Haman ended up hanged on the gallows he built, Robespierre also died on the guillotine, a victim of the terror he created.
I heard it narrowly made it. Yup, a mere 7-2. Pretty damn close according to the demolibs.
What needs to happen is that these “State Human Rights Commissions” need to be disbanded.
They do not seek to guarantee “human rights,” they have completely Liberal Agendas,
and are tools of the Blacks, Gays, or what have you! ....anti-white “govt agencies” who commit “reverse discrimination.”
From the article:
“The narrow Supreme Court ruling ruling in Phillips’ case applied to the specific facts of his case only and gave little hint as to how the court might decide future cases involving florists, bakers, photographers and other business owners who have cited religious and free-speech objections when refusing to serve gay and lesbian customers in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 same-sex marriage decision.”
If you read the decision then it's clear that it's very narrowly defined. It fits the circumstances and the laws in place in 2012. The Colorado anti-discrimination laws were tightened up since then and the Obergfell decision forced Colorado to legalize gay marriage. If Phillips were to sue under the current conditions there is no guarantee he would win.
This is interesting. I sincerely doubt these people are asking for a standard, run of the mill, wedding cake. There is something about these cakes that is offensive and why people are refusing to make them.
In the case of Phillips it was the gay marriage itself that he found offensive to his deeply held religious beliefs, and he chose not to participate in it in any way. That's all the reason he needed. That and the fact that in 2012 gay marriage was illegal in Colorado.
But Obamacare was a “decisive decision”.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, an atheist does indeed possess a belief system that drives them.
It’s called “hatred of God”, and they can be very fanatical about it.
This baker was set up - there were other bakers in the area who sell cakes to anyone who can pay for the cake. The “couple” was trying to force this into a court case and set a legal precedent. - They got their wish.
This may pave the way for getting some of our religious liberties back as guaranteed by the Constitution.
You’re joking, right?
Dude just painted a bulleye on himself. Every homo with an axe to grind will line up at his shop. They might even bring their lawyers with them, but why bother when you can video the guy saying ‘no, I am not going to bake a cake for your gay wedding ceremony’.
This was just the first of many lawsuits in his future.
“What needs to happen is that these “State Human Rights Commissions” need to be disbanded.
They do not seek to guarantee “human rights,” they have completely Liberal Agendas,
and are tools of the Blacks, Gays, or what have you! ....anti-white “govt agencies” who commit “reverse discrimination.””
They are the Liberal Gestapo, set up by their Liberal Legislatures. What amazes me is that the people tolerate these anti-Constitutional abuses as the continue to vote for these people who believe that they should be allowed to demand that you live the way that they tell you to without equivocation!
“This baker was set up - there were other bakers in the area who sell cakes to anyone who can pay for the cake.”
This is true. I have contended from the beginning that Mr. Phillips is not the sole source of goods or services as in the case of a municipal utility.
The SCOTUS ruled that the owner was not in violation of discrimination based on refusing to make a cake to celebrate a homosexual marriage.
No matter how they or you parse it, this ends the ability to claim someone is discriminating against you based on their refusal to provide a cake to help you celebrate your cause.
Therefore it is not a narrowly based decision.
Yes...which makes me ask the rhetorical question again of how this ruling is “narrow”! I predict the Colorado commie fascist’s new gaystapo empowering laws will be struck down as a result!
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