This is not about refusing to sell someone a cupcake that’s on the shelf in your bakery. It’s about refusing to actively participate in preparing for a gay parody of what some devout Christians see as the most joyful religious sacrament in life - holy matrimony. I have known bakers who do wedding cakes, and they don’t make as much per hour for that as they would with more routine tasks. It pays well in dollars, but not when you consider that it’s a time-intensive task that requires creativity. Those I know do it out of love and as an opportunity for artistic expression.
Kasich doesn’t care about freedom, only following the current fad in the hope that it will bring him power. Being compelled to participate in an activity that violates your religious beliefs is reprehensible. It is an act of supreme evil. My personal hope is that those who abuse government power in support of this goal will eventually be held accountable.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution . . . shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
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I’m okay with prosecuting the Gay Mafia thugs (those who sue and those who implement these draconian punishments in violation of the First Amendment) whenever the rule of law is restored, even two or three decades from now. They should eventually be locked up for the remainder of their malignant lives. They can look at pictures of their grandchildren from behind bars or visit through a glass window during visiting hours (oh, right, homosexuals won’t have grandchildren, so they’ll be alone in their final years, but that is okay so long as they are locked away from decent people). As for Kasich, this is not the only area where he sides with democrats instead with freedom.
- Kasich voted for the “Assault” Weapons Ban. https://grabien.com/file.php?id=53463 and as of last year did not regret that vote
- Kasich supported and implemented Obamacare’s Medicare expansion http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kasich-bible-medicaid_us_56140a54e4b022a4ce5fb1e3
- Kasich supports Amnesty for illegals. http://www.ontheissues.org/John_Kasich.htm
- Kasich dismissively said Christian bakers should “bake the cupcake” and participate in a gay parody of the sacrament of marriage, even if it violates their religious beliefs. https://www.frcaction.org/updatearticle/20160225/kasich-pushes
- Kasich supports Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kasich-id-consider-nominating-merrick-garland-supreme-court-election-2016/
These cases haven’t even come to a full First Amendment challenge anyhow. It’s possible the USSC, seeing the inevitable, will declare a protection for dedicated artistic works. Then Christian bakeries that use computer aided designs will declare them dedicated to certain religiously sanctioned purposes and that should be where the buck stops.
It’s a bother that such hoop jumping has to take place, but it still beats getting eaten by lions.