Video on Muslim bakers points to double standard on gay weddings

The Washington Times ^ | April 3, 2015 | Valerie Richardson

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It turns out some Muslim-owned bakeries are no more willing to create wedding cakes for same-sex ceremonies than their Christian counterparts.

Conservative podcast host Steven Crowder posted hidden-camera video Thursday showing employees at several Muslim-owned bakeries in Dearborn, Michigan, declining his business or referring him to other shops when he asked for a wedding cake with the message “Ben and Steven forever.”

Which was fine with Mr. Crowder. “I’m not even saying these Muslim bakeries shouldn’t have a right to do whatever they did — they absolutely should — and many more of them would than Christian bakeries,” he said in his podcast on the website Louder with Crowder.

His video makes a point that has long rankled the right: That Christian-owned shops have been targeted for legal action and derision for refusing to serve same-sex weddings even as gay-rights activists and media outlets ignore business owners of other faiths known for their conservative social views, notably Islam.

The fierce national debate over religious-freedom bills, particularly in Arkansas and Indiana, has increased the attention on Christian-owned businesses, which suddenly find themselves the subject of intense and potentially ruinous media focus.

“There is a witch-hunt now for Christian business owners,” said conservative radio talk-show host Dana Loesch on her Thursday program.

[GeronL]

at the mosque

[Savage Beast]

So the Left cannot avoid a conflict between two of its favorite Official Victim Groups! What a laugh!

The real fun's going to start when Muslims finally succeed in taking over this country and the Left gets what it deserves!

[realcleanguy]

Muslims and Gays, like 2 peas in a pod. Protected classes of people. Jews and Christians are no longer protected. In fact they see us, Jews and Christians, as the problem

[cripplecreek]

Christianity very much created America. The seeds of the revolution were planted in colonial churches.

[Yaelle]

This needs to get into the MSM. We need brain cells popping and Palm skin peeling from hand wringing on whom to support here.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Tolerance Sucks Rocks. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Regarding legal action against Christians, the only references that I am seeing to 14th Amendment protections for Christians have been in FR. Note that the 14th Amendment prohibits the states from unreasonably abridging any constitutionally enumerated rights, freedom of religious expression one of those rights.

So is the problem possibly that Christians have never been taught their constitutional religious protections beyond the 1st Amendment?

Otherwise, what am I overlooking?

[MichaelCorleone]

Witch hunt, eh? Lock and load baby.

[MichaelCorleone]

“This isn’t about gays or wedding cakes, this is about the hatred of Christianity and the nation it created.”

Yep. Plain and simple.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

The very fact that there is no ‘equal protection’ should be grounds to have the convictions or civil judgments overturned for the Christian bakers (this is, after all, a constitutional guarantee).

[sergeantdave]

“their throats are in danger of being slit, too. Useful idiots.”

Absolutely. Leftists don’t have the mental capacity to comprehend what you stated. American leftists are clods, morons.

We saw examples of the typical leftist inability to understand reality during the Stalin era. People in the Soviet concentration camps really believed they were in the camps because of some bureaucratic snafu. They stupidly believed that Stalin would rescue them, if only he knew about the camps.

Useful idiots, indeed.

[concerned about politics]

In fact they see us, Jews and Christians, as the problem

The Antichrist left vs. Gods chosen people.
We win in the end and inherit a paradise on earth. They get tossed into a burning lake of fire for 1,000 years.
Sounds like justice to me.

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[I want the USA back]

What a country! fly occupied planes into occupied buildings and you become a certified victim group and can do anything you want.
Live peacefully and get blamed for all the world’s problems.

[hoosiermama]

If it’s not in MSM it’s not because we haven’t tried -— dropped or emailed it to dozens of talking heads and politicians.
Included it in a reply to Governor Pence when his committee asked for funds. Told him I’d contribute when Christians were added to the list of protected people

[laplata]

You’re right and that’s a good example.

And when Stalin died, many in the camps wept.

I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector. He helped “handle” people like Ted Kennedy and other useful idiots/sympathizers when they visited the Soviet Union. We learned a lot from him.

[laplata]

Live peacefully and get blamed for all the world’s problems.

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And don’t dare to even defend yourself.

[ladyjane]

Christian owned shops are targeted.

Of course. They don’t fight back.

Time for the Crusades. In the Middle East and here.

[cripplecreek]

They fear us.

"It was Sunday morning early in the year 1776. In the church where Pastor Muhlenberg preached, it was a regular service for his congregation, but a quite different affair for Muhlenberg himself. Muhlenberg's text for the day was Ecclesiastes 3 where it explains, 'To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted...'"

"Coming to the end of his sermon, Peter Muhlenberg turned to his congregation and said, 'In the language of the holy writ, there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.' As those assembled looked on, Pastor Muhlenberg declared, 'There is a time to fight, and that time is now coming!' Muhlenberg then proceeded to remove his robes revealing, to the shock of his congregation, a military uniform."

"Marching to the back of the church he declared, 'Who among you is with me?' On that day 300 men from his church stood up and joined Peter Muhlenberg. They eventually became the 8th Virginia Brigade fighting for liberty."

"Frederick Muhlenberg, Peter's brother, was against Peter's level of involvement in the war. Peter responded to Frederick writing, 'I am a Clergyman it is true, but I am a member of the Society as well as the poorest Layman, and my Liberty is as dear to me as any man, shall I then sit still and enjoy myself at Home when the best Blood of the Covenant is spilling? ...So far am I from thinking that I act wrong, I am convinced it is my duty to do so and duly I owe to God and my country."



A Christian who isn't politically active is no Christian at all.

[sergeantdave]

American leftists are like monkeys; they dance to the tune of the organ grinder.

[laplata]

American leftists are like monkeys; they dance to the tune of the organ grinder.

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You nailed it.
And when the organ grinder puts the banana up their butts, they smile because he says so.

[Engedi]

and a gay hair-stylist for Governor Martinez refused to do her hair after he found out that she was not for gay marriage. He had been doing her hair for years and one day just said I will no longer do your hair. You don’t see me as an equal therefore, I refuse to provide hair services to you.