Posted on 12/07/2013 8:03:14 AM PST by Innovative
Colorado does not recognize gay marriages. How can someone be forced to do something that is contrary to state law?
Me
Make their cake, and tell them you “made it special, just for them.” Then laugh maniacally.
they could have baked one like my loony sister had at her wedding (she married a guy so the comparison is not perfect). She got some organic fruit loop cake that looked beautiful and tasted like cardboard and had the texture of cardboard
I’m waiting for these folks to pull the same stunt on a Mohammedan baker. I have a sense that I will be in for a very long wait.
That sounds more logical than anything this judge said.
If the judge was elected, get rid of him.
I would, if I were the baker, put the judgement in the front window, with the judge’s name highlighted and the name of the plaintiffs also highlighted.
Maybe even have the pictures of the plaintiffs so everybody can see what they look like.
When somebody owns your body, that makes you their slave, and you have to do whatever they say.
I kind of doubt this was anything other than a publicity stunt.
This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that causes hate. You are taking the rights of others. This is not equality.
Look, I am not anti-gay. I am a conservative. What you do is your business, not mine. With that in mind, no one has the right to tell me what to think. A private business has the right to refuse service. If this was actually a couple looking to be married, then why in the world would they want to force someone into making their cake? This was a publicity stunt!
Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer committed a crime against liberty.
http://www.colorado.gov/pacific/oac/judges
But, no photos or bio on him.
And what of the cost to society and the hurt to persons who are compelled to act against their religious beliefs?!
It’s only by throwing out the politicians is change going to be effected.
Bake them their cake. Make it so foul tasting that no other homo would want to get a cake from them but by all means bake the homos their cake.
Seriously, I wonder if a hypothetical sodomite couple would still take a businessman (B&B owner, baker, etc.) to court if the businessman announced that he was going out of business when presented a request for service like that?
(There is precedent...how many property developers routinely change corporate identities upon the completion of major developments?)
Well, if two guys come in to discuss a cake, with five tiers, white icing roses, two little grooms on top, and what kind of cursive “Jim and John” should be in, it might not be a wedding and they might not be gay. But you might guess.
“This ruling, however, fails to take into account the cost to society and the hurt caused to persons who are denied the right to live their beliefs.”
I’m going to find a Muslim business to sue for not doing somethimg which explicitly caters to my Christian beliefs. Wait, that probably wouldn’t go anywhere. I’ll pretend to be a homosexual and sue them for not catering to my sodomite lifestyle. I’d like to see how that would work out, just as a matter of curiosity.
It has occurred to me that decorating a cake is sort of an art form. And we wouldn’t want to deny anyone their “artistic freedom.”
So, if I were a bakery, I would agree to do the cake and then I would express myself liberally :-)
But, since I’m a nice guy, and since it’s only fair, I’d show the prospective customers examples of my past work before they bought.
I might add, no Judge can force these people to carry products of which they disapprove (I hope.) And that includes same-sex versions of those little couples that go on the top of the cake.
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