AZUCAR BAKERY
Posted on 04/07/2015 7:44:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A bakery in Colorado will not be punished for refusing to bake a cake requested by a Christian activist that included quotes from the Bible denouncing homosexuality.
Azucar Bakery in Denver was found not guilty of discrimination by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Regulatory Agencies when it refused to make a cake requested by Christian activist Bill Jack.
In comments sent to The Christian Post on Sunday, Jack denounced the decision by the Civil Rights Division and its use of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.
"Colorado prosecuted Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop for bringing his Christian faith to bear in his decision not to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, yet business owners who decide to refuse service to a Christian wanting Bible verses on cakes are exonerated by the state," stated Jack.
"CADA is being used to censor Christian business owners' free speech and is being used to coerce them to participate in events that violate their consciences."
Jack added that he's "in the process of filing an appeal with the CCRD" over what he calls "hypocrisy and unequal treatment before the law."
Last March, Jack went to Azucar Bakery and made a request for two cakes that had biblical messages, including a statement and image denouncing homosexuality.
In an interview with CP in January, Jack described what he wanted, noting that contrary to initial reports he did not request a cake with the statement "God hates gays."
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
Some animals are more equal than others.
“Rights for me, but not for thee.”
It seems that the way this is going, is that courts will decide it is hate speech if you ask for services critical of homosexuality or liberal causes. Thus service can be refused if you want to make a statement against a liberal cause.
On the other hand, you will be violating a liberal’s civil rights if you refuse service to someone wanting to make a liberal statement.
Probably this ends up, as courts grapple with these issues, that the liberals will end up having it both ways. You will not be allowed to criticize liberal sacred cows, but will not be allowed to not serve liberals in their quest to force everyone to bow to the liberal homosexual agenda.
too much common sense condensed into a simple image....
Good one.
Stolen from Travis.
“We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
John Adams
Bottom line: WE ARE NO LONGER THAT PEOPLE and are now nearing the end of the process fulfilling Mr. Adams’ dire prediction.
It will get worse from here.
Tocqueville spoke to the same problem after his visit here, to wit:
“I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America in her harbors...;in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution. Not until I went into her churches and saw pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” (Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840)
“When the religion of a people is destroyed, doubt gets hold of the higher powers of the intellect, and half paralyzes all the others. Every man accustoms himself to have only confused and changing notions on the subjects most interesting to his fellow-creatures and himself. His opinions are ill-defined and easily abandoned; and, in despair of ever solving by himself the hard problems respecting the destiny of man, he ignobly submits to think no more about them. Such a condition cannot but enervate the soul, relax the springs of the will, and prepare the people for servitude. Not only does this happen, in such a case, that they allow their freedom to be taken from them; they themselves frequently surrender it.”
-—Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” (1840)
The end game of the secular progressives is in sight! Will we resist or submit and surrender?
BTW, If you believe this “stuff” is just so early 1800s, you are part of the problem.
The workaround to this is right out of Alinsky. Forget about winning in the courts, just overwhelm the system with discrimination claims.
So we have one bakery reported by one customer for one incident of refusal. What happens when that one bakery refuses DOZENS of customers, who then file discrimination complaints?
What happens when a couple dozen bakeries refuse hundreds of customers, who then file discrimination complaints?
The system for reporting discrimination gets overwhelmed to the point where it can no longer effective operate.
No discrimination here. NOPE!
Excellent idea. “Overwhelm the system” has always seemed a winner to me. Like Cloward-Piven for the good guys.
These two as phrased do not sound like they are the same thing, the first one says its OK to refuse to put Biblical quoted anti-gay phrases on a cake, the other was about getting fined for refusing to bake and sell a cake for a wedding
In the second case it would be the same if they refused to put pro-gay phrases on the cake.
IOW the government now sanctions certain religions.
Picks winners and losers.
The homosexual atheist religion is endorsed by the government and all others are condemned.
Koran verses?
If you understand that this is the State putting itself in the place of the One True God,
then it all makes sense.
It makes sense that a Christian bakery would bow to the State,
and it makes sense that the State would allow a bakery to refuse a Christian.
Bakeries should be free to refuse both.
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