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Colorado baker to stop making wedding cakes after losing discrimination case
CBS News ^ | May 31, 2014

Posted on 05/31/2014 10:00:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The owner of a bakery in Lakewood said he will no longer sell wedding cakes after the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled he did discriminate against a gay couple when he refused to sell them a cake.

"We would close down the bakery before we would complicate our beliefs," Phillips said after the hearing, according to CBS Denver. Phillips also admitted he had refused service to other same-sex couples.

The commission also ordered the baker to submit quarterly reports about the customers he refuses to serve and retrain employees to serve everyone.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; antichristian; antireligion; bakery; baking; freeexercise; gaykk; homosexualagenda; lawsuit; weddingcakes
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To: Seruzawa

Bingo.


61 posted on 05/31/2014 10:49:58 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Genoa

62 posted on 05/31/2014 10:50:51 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They will simply order him to make wedding cakes. This is how it is done in a Soviet State like America.


63 posted on 05/31/2014 10:52:54 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Alberta's Child
You're right. Soldiers should be at the front line. Any "civil rights commission" that took action against me for this kind of sh!t would need to replace all of its members.

Roger that.

Subsequent anti-gun agitation be damned.

Materials have uses; it is important to decide when to employ materials.

64 posted on 05/31/2014 10:55:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The commission also ordered the baker to submit quarterly reports about the customers he refuses to serve and retrain employees to serve everyone.

Pure unadulterated fascism.

65 posted on 05/31/2014 10:55:13 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the owner of the bakery has them sign a contract for the work all he has to do is have a clause in the contract that states that he can farm out work to other bakers. I’m sure their are plenty of bakeries in the area that would be glad to have the work.


66 posted on 05/31/2014 10:56:54 AM PDT by KirbDog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does this bakery have a website? I’d be down for ordering something from them to show my support.


67 posted on 05/31/2014 11:00:37 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How sad!


68 posted on 05/31/2014 11:00:43 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Alberta's Child

Wedding cakes are a huge part of a baking business they are high dollar
items, I would assume this couple is VERY involved in their church, I
would do cakes for church members ONLY!!!!


69 posted on 05/31/2014 11:00:45 AM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: laweeks

Start making Divorce Cakes


70 posted on 05/31/2014 11:02:03 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Republican Wildcat
"Refuse service" is another bold-faced lie by the left and the media so they can create a false narrative.

Good point on Post 7. The Satanic Media-Politician-Academia complex wordsmith their comments and remarks so while not always being an out an out lie (although sometimes they do cross into the the realm of flat out lying) they twist the truth to their gain.
Satan's the father of lies, and the Media willing works for him.

71 posted on 05/31/2014 11:03:01 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Just made a donation.


72 posted on 05/31/2014 11:03:29 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: ForYourChildren
A member of our church that has military background pointed out that we are in a spiritual battle....

Picked up a calendar at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, and. guess what . . . there's no EASTER written in the appropriate spot. The Air Force will not acknowledge Easter even on their calendar.

Good Lord Almighty! What has this country come to?

73 posted on 05/31/2014 11:04:10 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks

The whole world has gone insane.

There is almost no country that has not embraced the sick perversion of homosexuality as normal, that then goes on to celebrate this sickness and promote it, and then goes on to create hate crimes or create an environment where people lose their jobs if they disagree with this sickness.

On top of this, the rest of the world is insane with the sick cult of islam; possibly the only countries that do not embrace the sick perversion of homosexuality.

We live in a world gone insane.

Homosexuality is a judgement on America.

This needs to be pointed out consistently - homosexuality will not bring judgement upon our country; homosexuality IS the judgement. Romans 1:26 starts with “For this reason” and continues “God gave them up to vile passions.” “..men with men committing what is shameful”; so this is a judgement upon our society.

It also continues and says that they give approval to others for more and more evil acts. We see this today with our legislatures accepting homosexual marriages and the teaching of it as acceptable in the schools.

Note also that Romans 1:32 points out that those who approve of such conduct are just as guilty as those who engage in it.


74 posted on 05/31/2014 11:06:58 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
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To: laweeks

Your Republic of Laws has been usurped by a Republic of Lawyers.


75 posted on 05/31/2014 11:14:56 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will Jewish markets be required to carry halal products too? For that matter, how about halal stores being compelled to stock kosher?


76 posted on 05/31/2014 11:14:59 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Cementjungle

Next thing you know those same gay ba$tards will come in and want to order rolls for the wedding dinner. The baker will refuse and then another lawsuit will force the baker to close his doors completely. I’d make the rolls all right but things would turn out a lot different.


77 posted on 05/31/2014 11:18:17 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: jiggyboy

The voting booth?

A nonvote is the same as a yes vote in a referendum. What % of Traditional Value people don’t vote?


78 posted on 05/31/2014 11:21:28 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: laweeks

“Picked up a calendar at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, and. guess what . . . there’s no EASTER written in the appropriate spot. The Air Force will not acknowledge Easter even on their calendar.”

This nation was clearly founded on Christian principles.

When we removed the Lordship of Jesus Christ from our person and country, something will take up that authority. What we have been seeing playing out for many many decades is the authority being replaced. The authority is being taken up by FedZilla and supported by vile and perverse rituals as can be seen with the homosexual movement and their gay parades and public acts; the support and government development of sickening cults like islam; and other anti-Christian acts.

By natural law, there always is a right and wrong. There always are blasphemy laws and other similar laws. When we remove the Lordship of Jesus Christ, then evil becomes good and good becomes evil. Laws get reversed, perversion becomes acceptable, tolerated, and then forced on people. This is where we are.

As pointed out, this is spiritual warfare, on a global scale.


79 posted on 05/31/2014 11:23:23 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
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To: Republican Wildcat
I was going to post a comment on the same line from the article. The media are very fond of the word "admit"; they use it far more often than justified. If you "admit" to doing something; that implies that you are confessing to doing something wrong. It also implies that Phillips only divulged this information after skillful interrogation by the reporter.

Phillips stated he had .... (neutral, also implies that Phillips offered the information without prompting).

Phillips bragged he had ... (pretty much the opposite of "admitted").

80 posted on 05/31/2014 11:33:26 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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