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Christian Baker Must Make Cakes Celebrating Gay Marriage, Appeals Court Rules
The Daily Signal ^ | August 13, 2015 | Ken McIntyre

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: christianbakerlogo; christianpersecution; chtistianbaker; gay; judicial; lgbt; weddingcake
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To: YourAdHere

“Upside down cake?”

Packed with fudge.


81 posted on 08/14/2015 12:30:45 PM PDT by Leep (Vote Bush! Why? Because we say so!)
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To: Lazamataz

I do like your thinking.


82 posted on 08/14/2015 12:31:44 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: EvilCapitalist; All

Stores ban problem customers all the time.

I told them i wouldnt design a cake for them and they keep harassing me to do it, threatening me to do it. Banned from the store.


83 posted on 08/14/2015 12:32:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Liberty Valance
Bake the cake.

That is the only thing they care about. Your futile gesture beyond that is completely irrelevant to them. They have simply scored another legal victory in their efforts to use the legal system to force homosexual normalization on everyone.

84 posted on 08/14/2015 12:33:07 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: martinidon

They should not have to make a bad cake, an Ex-Lax cake, or anything like that. Purposely baking a bad cake, or one that will make people at the “wedding” sick, is against the Christian faith just as much as approving of a gay “wedding” is. They should not have to do it at all.


85 posted on 08/14/2015 12:34:31 PM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, when you realize all this is designed to bring Christians into subjection, marginalize them, and end Christ’s influence in society, you’ll known that would be met with more state censure.


86 posted on 08/14/2015 12:34:59 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: EvilCapitalist; All

If he is an artist/artisan, they decline projects and commissions all the time for a wide number of reasons.

Already have other projects. Dont really do what youre asking. Dnt have a good idea for what id do for that. Dont like the subject area. Dont do the kind of subject art youre asking for. That isnt what im known for making. Not interested in doing that project. Not schooled in that form or style or school of art.


87 posted on 08/14/2015 12:35:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: martinidon

88 posted on 08/14/2015 12:36:04 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Cheerio

Or just sell the cake you make and let them modifying for whatever type of sodomy they prefer. Perhaps a man and his cow or horse.


89 posted on 08/14/2015 12:36:28 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

When push comes to shove, there are probably issues I would throw my life away for but this just isn’t one of them even though I strongly believe that any private business has the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.


90 posted on 08/14/2015 12:38:37 PM PDT by RC one
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To: demshateGod

Of course. But our founding fathers tried for decades before the final spearation from others. They at least could say they had exhausted all other avenues, and had no resort but their last one.


91 posted on 08/14/2015 12:38:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
If a porn company wanted him to make a sexually explicit dirty cake, would the court force him to?

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

If planned parenthood wanted him to make a torn apart fetus cake, would the court force him to?

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

If a southern company demanded he make a confederate flag cake, would the court force him to?

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

No. They are not regarded as a "protected class."

Homosexuals have been working for a very long time to be regarded by the legal system as a "protected class." They have been arguing that being a sick, mentally ill, disease ridden, feces pushing faggot is the same thing as being Black, and that they ought to be protected from people discriminating against sick, twisted, mentally ill, drama queens who in a sane nation would be locked up in Asylums.

92 posted on 08/14/2015 12:39:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

I could, but i doub2t they’d be able to get a knife through it.


93 posted on 08/14/2015 12:39:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I think I’m starting to see how a society cannot exist for very long when open deviance is tolerated. There’s an asymmetry here that isn’t sustainable and can’t coexist.


94 posted on 08/14/2015 12:40:30 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Pollster1
Every judge, gay-thug plaintiff, and other petty tyrant involved in this war against religion should be hunted down and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as soon as the rule of law is restored. There is no statute of limitations for federal crimes that carry the death penalty. Whether it takes until January 20, 2017, or fifty years, these thugs need to be hunted down and given life without parole. The First Amendment is closer to an absolute than anything else in law other than the Second Amendment. Those who trample freedom of religion are as bad as Nazis and should be treated the same as those criminals, hunted down like Adolf Eichmann, Klaus Barbie, Josef Mengele, and their other fellow arch-criminals.

I like the way you think.

95 posted on 08/14/2015 12:41:18 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I have a theory. In the book of Job God grants permission to satan to attack Job. Satan was the source of attacks, but the attacks were separate. Job lost his children, his livestock and his crops in a short period of time. Then Job lost his health.

These were separate attacks, but from the same source, Satan.

America has always been recognized as a Christian nation and satan hates that. But now there's a multi pronged attack to destroy it. Homosexuals granted divine status. Christian businesses refused the luxury of their convictions. The potus bringing in the enemies of America by the hundreds of thousands.

These are not coincidences, and it's no accident that they're happening at about the same time.

Just a theory. More like a notion. But something's going on, that's for certain.

96 posted on 08/14/2015 12:44:48 PM PDT by LouAvul (Ted Cruz and the presidency goes together like a gun and bullets. Nothing else works.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Ifm they go that way their argument legaly falls apart. Any good Christian lawyer would pray they say this.

Plenty of businesses deny service to customers regardless of protected class status. It doesnt matter if they are or are not.


97 posted on 08/14/2015 12:45:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: demshateGod

As the lawless increase, the law of the lawless becomes increasingly wicked.

Its why we have to know how to use it and get rulings that protect us and in reality, them too.

We also have to know when were at aa separation point like the founding fathers and go separate ways. And that will not be pleasant either but it wil need to be done again at some point. Can alway pray more and more people are saved, for themselves, and for us too. And for the country.


98 posted on 08/14/2015 12:48:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

“Wedding cakes for sale: Flour represents male; Sugar represents female. Two males get double flour, no sugar. Two females get double sugar, no flour.”

PERFECT... except

Also be sure to include another line to state that

“One male and one female get traditional portions of flour and sugar.” (just to be fair, balanced and complete.)

This is a really good response to update bakery policy to be totally fair to future clients.


99 posted on 08/14/2015 12:50:38 PM PDT by Repent and Believe (...prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects. - Saint Thomas Aquinas)
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To: RC one

I literally could not bake the cake. My limbs would fail. This stuff is real to me.


100 posted on 08/14/2015 12:52:15 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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