Posted on 12/08/2013 5:59:59 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
A Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple has been given an ultimatum by a judge; serve gay weddings or face fines.
Administrative law judge Robert N. Spence found Friday that Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Denver, Colo. violated the law when he turned away David Mullins, 29, and Charlie Craig, 33, from his shop last year.
In his written decision, Spence ordered that Phillips "cease and desist from discriminating" against gay couples, or face financial penalties, and cited Colorado state law that prohibits businesses from refusing service based on race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.
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say no,
force them to close your business because you refuse to provide services to people you don’t want to associate with.
then you’d have a 4th amendment violation
So far the bakery owner has followed his religious beliefs. Now he is being tested further.
If he believes what he says, he won’t bake that cake.
Period.
The tricks about donating, etc. are all bogus.
That Alinski stuff works both ways. Freeze them and ridicule them.
Since they could have gone to a different bakery, and didn’t ... they chose to be bullys. Ridicule them! Don’t bake a cake to celebrate their wedding, make one to shame them for bullying you.
Bake the cake. Decorate it with “Shame on the Bullys!” on one side, and “eat at your own risk” on the other. Deliver it with people with tamborines and drums, singing “Shame on the Bullys that made us bake this cake ... Bullys ... Bullys ... Bullys”
While the cake is being delivered, friends to decorate their car with “Bullys”.
Video it. Put it on Youtube. Send a copy to the local TV news. Send a copy to Letterman, and American Home Video. Send a copy to Fox News.
When you are interviewed, be reasonable. “My daddy taught me two rules: don’t bother other people and don’t be too easily bothered. If we are all going to get along, we need to respect eeach other’s beliefs. These guys didn’t want a cake, they wanted to bully me with the law to do something against my beliefs. They obviously need to repeat first grade where you learn that it is not nice to bully people.”
your honor, I apologize for my attitude and I see that it was wrong. I will, indeed, bake their cake and I will personally see that it is a very special cake....a memorable occasion suce as this gay wedding should not go without a VERY special acknowledgement. Just leave it to me, I will guarantee that they will remember this for the rest of their lives.....guarantee!!!
Welcome to the Mark of the Beast.
While very one was looking at bar codes and RFID chips for evidence - the actual Mark is one that most Christians refuse to acknowledge as existing- yet the evidence is right in front of them and acting exactly as scripture says it will.
Without the Mark - you cannot buy or sell - which means if you do not think and act as the Beast demands - you starve and you die.
Put it right on the price sheet... “Custom cakes for gay weddings - $12,000.00” so all gays are treated equally.
Actually, with these cases... I recall a freeper explaining a good workaround.. for wedding photographers. Insistance on being officially invited to the wedding... so if they do not want to do it, they can RSVP no.
Why does the gay couple even want a cake baked by this man? In my opinion they don’t. What they want is along with their friends in the media, they want to persecute someone who disagrees with their lifestyle on a national level.
Exactly. This is an “attack” on this man’s religious beliefs, an attack on his very livelihood, and in effect, both an attack and an act of intimidation against all folks who share his Christian faith. It’s morally the equivalent of an act of violence.
The “law” be damned. People need to hit these scumbags back, and hit them hard.
Bake it with the “ Jesse Jackson Secret Sauce”...
Deliver a fruitcake “by mistake.”
perfect. then if the fags try it again they will be putting money directly in the pocket of their enemies - they’ll stop these lawsuits fast.
No shoes, no shirt, no gays
I wish that I lived in a land where people could have beliefs and follow them as long as they did not harm the freedom of others. Like the freedom to deny service, because you conclude it is for an immoral purpose. Also, the others had the freedom to use another business and give them their money. Or to start/fiance a business to cater to their neglected needs. I wish someone would tell me if such a country exists and where it is. I might want to start living there some day and give them my tax money and hard work...
Is this really what it is coming down to? People: Do what we want! You: No. Government: Do it or suffer.
I don’t think it would be very Christian to sabotage the cake, but I don’t think it would be Christian to help others celebrate defiance to Jesus. Is there truly no other moral options than: pay the fine or move to another land?
In Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division, the US Supreme Court ruled that a worker’s religious beliefs barred him from participating in the production of armaments. (Go read the opinion)
...it has nothing to do with a cake they would actually eat.
And they've made their point.
I think this is a baker who no longer offers wedding cakes, doesn’t bake them, doesn’t know how to decorate them. How about some twinkies for you twinkies?
Oh, they’re having a wedding? Who is the bride, and who is the groom - the basic requirements for a wedding, by definition?
Another judge who went to law school, but doesn’t even understand the concept of language - yet was awarded a degree and was admitted to the bar.
Good answer.
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