Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Colorado baker discriminated by denying gay couple wedding cake: judge
Chicago Tribune ^ | Dec 6, 2013 | Keith Coffman

Posted on 12/07/2013 8:03:14 AM PST by Innovative

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last
To: bayliving

Salt and sugar look a lot alike ;-)


41 posted on 12/07/2013 9:06:48 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: IronJack

I wonder what would be the ruling if one went into a fag bakery and wanted a Dan White commerative cake with a twinkie on top?


42 posted on 12/07/2013 9:10:24 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

How about the cost to society of screwed up kids in ‘nontraditional’ families and the statistically disproportional rates of drug and alcohol abuse etc among the so called gay community?

PC nonsense that has nothing in common with law.


43 posted on 12/07/2013 9:10:36 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Innovative
why would you want somebody that sees you as something he stepped in and scraps off of his shoe to make you something to eat unless you simply want to sue them?
44 posted on 12/07/2013 9:11:08 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jonty30
don't think so ...

Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer

45 posted on 12/07/2013 9:13:44 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

“So sorry you didn’t care for your cake. I was certain you asked me to substitute Habanero for sugar in the cake mix.”


46 posted on 12/07/2013 9:15:17 AM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

It’s one thing to discriminate between people based on immutable characteristics of what they are.

It’s quite another to discriminate based upon their behavior. The social costs of failing to do so are enormous.


47 posted on 12/07/2013 9:19:50 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: darkwing104

Simple solution - always the best. Post a sign saying:”Forced out of business by homosexuals. Some Tolerance, eh?” and move to a less queer state.


48 posted on 12/07/2013 9:19:53 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

“This view, however, fails to take into account the cost to society and the hurt caused to persons who are denied service simply because of who they are.”

WERE they being denied service because of who they are... Or instead, based upon what they are doing.


49 posted on 12/07/2013 9:21:54 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

A private business has no obligation to be honest with these predators. Those who do not want to fight in court should:

(1) Agree to make the cake - but quote an insanely high price without specifying why.

(2) If the perverts agree, write a contract that specifies there is no penalty for failure to perform.

(3) Regretfully cancel at the last minute due to a personal emergency.


50 posted on 12/07/2013 9:22:20 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
Enemies all


51 posted on 12/07/2013 9:22:31 AM PST by Praxeologue
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

WHY mention the couple was “gay”


I’m guessing that it had to do with some aspect of the cake...like two brides or two grooms, or two female names.


52 posted on 12/07/2013 9:24:13 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

Christian Photographers will be targeted as well and its just about getting these cases in court.

1% of the population advancing their agenda.


53 posted on 12/07/2013 9:25:16 AM PST by Rightly Biased (Avenge me Girls AVENEGE ME!!!! ( I don't have any son's))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Innovative
Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer ordered Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, to accommodate sex-couples or face fines and other possible penalties.

The very term, "Administrative Law Judge" is an abomination to the separation of powers principle.

54 posted on 12/07/2013 9:25:54 AM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Innovative
...the hurt caused to persons who are denied service simply because of who they are.

Except that a person's sexuality is experienced by society as something they do (e.g. having a same sex relationship), not as something they are (e.g. being black). This means the civil rights reasoning that works for race doesn't work for sexuality. It's wrong to judge someone by a physical trait like skin color, but society has a right, even an obligation, to judge actions and behavior.

It's the false equivalence with race that bugs me most about the whole gay issue. They want to smuggle their behavior into the protected place that we have created for race.

55 posted on 12/07/2013 9:30:38 AM PST by Yardstick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lepton

the appropriate shame of yesteryear appears to be all but gone....


56 posted on 12/07/2013 9:35:56 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

How about the pain imflicted upon the rest of us when we a targeted by the homosexual mafia?


57 posted on 12/07/2013 9:36:04 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lepton

You beat me to it and said it better...that is exactly right. It’s the difference in doing and being.


58 posted on 12/07/2013 9:40:11 AM PST by Yardstick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

Gone? How about celebrated?


59 posted on 12/07/2013 9:41:34 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: xzins

I wish the world made sense.


60 posted on 12/07/2013 9:42:58 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson