Posted on 02/02/2023 11:46:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Supreme Court took the easy way out when it first heard a dispute between Jack Phillips, a baker, and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Justices sidestepped the fundamental issue, which was whether the state could compel speech from private citizens, and instead impugned the commission's actions by pointing to the bigoted statements that its members directed at Christians .
Now the commission is back, persecuting Phillips again. Its case proves that the Left will stop at nothing to force everyone, irrespective of moral objections, to celebrate lifestyle choices of which they disapprove.
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He made clear that he was not discriminating against homosexuals, telling the couple, “I’ll make your birthday cakes, shower cakes — sell you cookies and brownies. I just don’t make cakes for same-sex weddings.”
Instead of finding another Denver baker, the couple tried to force Phillips to bake the cake by filing a discrimination complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
The inaptly named commission ruled against Phillips after commissioners showed "a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs motivating his objection,” as the Supreme Court put it. The court ruled for Phillips, holding that the commission violated his civil rights because it did not handle his objections in a neutral manner.
Now the commission is at it again. A man who identifies as a woman wants to force Phillips to bake a cake celebrating his "transition." Phillips is willing to sell the customer premade pink and blue cakes, but he won't bake a special cake. This is the crux of the new lawsuit. The commission ruled against Phillips again, holding that forcing him to bake a custom cake celebrating a "gender transition" does not violate his right to free speech.
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Next will be pedophile cakes.
I never really liked the term she chose for it, but Ayn Rand was right on target with her concept of “sanction of the victim”.
The people destroying Western Civilization will turn us all into real victims — and they will try and force us to approve of their actions and make us thank them for victimizing us.
I increasingly see only one way out of this.
“Instead of finding another Denver baker, the couple tried to force Phillips to bake the cake by filing a discrimination complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission”
This has absolutely not to do with cakes or any other pastry. That’s all incidental.....these people are being attacked for their faith and beliefs.
If they were in the gretting card business and refused to carry homosexual greeting cards (and that’s a thing BTW) this would still be going on.
So can I go to a queer baker and tell him to bake me a cake that says faggotry is an abomination?
They cannot compel speech. The court ruled that the commission violated the baker’s civil rights. Would that not open the door for an horrendous lawsuit by the baker? I would have sued the pants off of them long before the tranny showed up. Also, the baker needs to post a sign of what he will bake and what he will not bake.
“I increasingly see only one way out of this.”
That’s because there is only one way out of it.
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And here we thought all they wanted was to be left alone. At least that’s what they told us.
The Left’s persecution of Phillips is not isolated vindictiveness. Activists also sue florists and web designers who won't celebrate same-sex weddings or gender transitions. This is a deliberate and programmatic effort to put traditional or individual belief beyond the protection of standard civil and human rights. It is part of a culturewide effort to force conformity on a public that does not agree with the corrosive falsehoods being peddled by a vociferous and odious cult of leftist militants.
I can't say what he should do. But if it were me, I would view the homo request as a threat on my life and livelihood and treat the "perps" the same as armed robbers.
that was my question
whats next?
sadly you are probably right
i think the left will keep pushing hoping to start a shooting war
While reserving to themselves the right to condemn others for their lifestyles.
It’s not to approve of their lifestyles, it’s to endorse and celebrate their lifestyles.
Even if “a homosexual” or “a transgender” was actually real, when in the history of this country has it ever been okay for people to force other people into a perception of them?
“forcing him to bake a custom cake celebrating a “gender transition” does not violate his right to free speech.”
Grand logic of the tyrannical leftist democrats.
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