Posted on 08/14/2015 11:45:28 AM PDT by Cheerio
A custom cake baker in suburban Denver can’t cite his religious convictions in declining to make a wedding cake for two men, a Colorado appeals court ruled today.
“Cake artist” Jack Phillips said he gladly serves gays and lesbians in his family business. But, Phillips said, he could not in good conscience design a wedding cake for a same-sex couple when, as a Christian, he believes that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.
A three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that not doing so amounts to illegal discrimination based on sexual orientation, the Associated Press reported.
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You want that cake when? No, sorry, we’re too busy that day.
Those aren’t protected classes.
I guess when you say “regardless of protected class” you mean, a few members of protected classes are getting caught up in a general rule. That doesn’t matter. What matters is if the discrimination targets members of those protected classes, either exclusively, or to a disproportionate degree. That is what the courts look at.
You know how these judges demand you dress appropriately for their court. Well, turn about fair play. Sue the pants off them for discriminating. If a baker can’t discriminate against gay wedding cakes, a judge can’t discriminate if someone wants to visit his public courtroom dressed in a pink tutu and wearing a purple glittered unicorn mask.
Freedom of association trumps protected classes.
Contract law requires it be voluntary on both side or that contrwct is invalid. One canmotbe forced into a contrsct against their will, that is slavery.
Both parties have to have equal,rights to enter ointo or decline to enter into a contrwct.
Simply bake generic white cakes with plain white icing. Have a few simple decorations for sale separately, such as candied flowers & ribbons, sets of bride & groom dolls (queers can then purchase two sets & pair up the dolls as they wish when they decorate their own cakes). - Bakers do not have to conduct an in-depth interview with their customers; IF bakers do this, they are ASKING to be put out of business by what passes for the LAW these days. (LET everyone decorate their own cakes to their own liking!)
I wish I were running for president. I would affirm, in a public speech, that anyone forced to do something against their religious beliefs would be pardoned. Again, And again, and again, if it came to that.
All the while working my rear end off to restore liberty.
These militant homosexuals and their supporters are some of the most venomous and evil people I’ve ever seen. Gaystapo is an absolutely accurate description of them.
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