Posted on 07/08/2013 11:57:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Gay activists protest the Masterpiece Cakeshop in 2012. Owner Jack Phillips now faces charges for not baking a cake for the gay couple. (Free Republic)
Gay marriage was banned by the Colorado constitution in 2006. But this didn’t stop the Colorado Attorney General’s office from filing a discrimination complaint against Masterpiece Cakeshop for not baking a cake for a gay couple.
The Advocate reported:
A Denver bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple is about to face the legal heat.
The Colorado Attorney General’s office last week filed a discrimination complaint against the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who last year declined to make a cake for Denver couple Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, the Associated Press reports. The couple had their marriage ceremony in Massachusetts and wanted the cake for a hometown celebration with family and friends.
Jack Phillips, one of the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had cited his Christian beliefs in refusing the men’s business......
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I wish I knew the answer to that question. A person that owns a business these days just thinks he owns it.
Yeah, they could have baked a bland cake, an Ex Lax cake, a crap cake. But why should they HAVE to? They should be able to just say “NO, we’re not baking you any cake,” and that should be the gol-danged end of it! If they can’t do that, then we don’t live in a free country. This should be fought, fought, FOUGHT against.
And hair pie for lezbos.
....a huge donut with white icing and chocolate around the donut hole.
I’d bake their damn cake, charge them double in advance then dare them to serve it to their guests.
Jury Nullification requires thinking people to impose it.
In CO, the Voters Elected Democrats to run the Government, from the Governor on down.
What you think should happen will NEVER happen.
We are living in some sort of Bizarro World my FRiend. The Authorities, with the blessing of their Sycophant supporters, are serious about putting a Man in Prison for not abandoning his Religious tenets to satisfy the State.
And the Liberals call us Nazis.
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