Posted on 12/11/2017 9:48:14 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
The Rule of Law has become the Rule of Man, and when that happens, it's normally not very long before the people begin dancing around a golden calf
The Christian Baker who refused to bake a cake with a homosexual wedding message on it lost everything. The business is gone. They went bankrupt. The court case, however, lives on, and The United States Supreme Court has heard the oral arguments on it. This is dangerous. I am not excited when the federal government, especially the courts, begins to stick their fingers into issues regarding our rights. In fact, the Constitution strictly forbids it.
Natural Rights have five characteristics, four of which are listed in the Declaration of Independence.
It’s a shame that this couldn’t wait until we had one more conservative judge on the Supreme Court (which we certainly will soon with Breyer, Ginsberg, and Kennedy at or over 80), but I’m confident that Mr. Phillips and the First Amendment will both find justice and vindication.
Sex and religion has nothing to do with it.
Bad break Kennedy is still there for this case
That's how I see it as well. Someone from the Cato Institute had a good op-ed about this issue, saying that the homosexual couple suing Mr. Phillips is no different from a homosexual taking a family member or friend to court for refusing to attend his "wedding" for religious or political reasons.
Incidentally, Mr. Phillips never refused service to homosexual customers or anyone who wanted to buy his products, he just refused to custom-make cakes for homosexual weddings. He also refused to custom-make products for (heterosexual) bachelor parties, divorce parties, and anything else that he found morally objectionable. However, straight divorcees had the good sense not to sue him for it or make this a federal issue.
LGBT is a choice of behavior. They do not have the right to demand and force anyone to endorse that behavior.
nAH. Let’s do it now asap. Cant wait for these old leftard geezers to croak. We might have another conservative judge murdered like Scalia..
There have been several times that homosexuals with businesses have refused to serve someone on account of their beliefs. These should act as precedents.
I'm not, although I hope I'm severely mistaken.
Courts these days try to craft compromises, not adjudicate law. They try to "split the baby," Solomon-style, to appease two contesting claimants, and thereby no one wins.
The bake shop could merely put a very prohibitive price on his work.
Then subcontract the work.
Really?
Maybe I’m too optimistic - once again Kennedy’s vote will decide the outcome, and his vote seems to be a coin toss on most issues. That’s why I said that this would go more smoothly had it happened a year or two from now when President Trump gets a chance to replace one or more of the octogenarian liberal judges.
“The bake shop could merely put a very prohibitive price on his work.”
I read a very good idea a while back, the bakery should make it clear at the time the order is placed that 100% of the monies charged will be donated to a pro-family charity.
“I read a very good idea a while back, the bakery should make it clear at the time the order is placed that 100% of the monies charged will be donated to a pro-family charity.”
It’s a moral issue so they’d never have done it but if they really wanted to, they could have put a sign above the cash register that said:
“100% of what you pay for your gay wedding cake will be donated to Donald Trump for President, 2020”
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