And they issued this ruling right after the Masterpiece ruling in the SCOTUS.
The appellants in Brush & Nib v. Phoenix:
Posted on 06/08/2018 1:05:19 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
PHOENIX — An Arizona appeals court on Thursday upheld a Phoenix anti-discrimination law that makes it illegal for businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples because of religion.
The ruling comes days after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The high court found Monday that a Colorado civil rights commission showed anti-religious bias when it ruled against Jack Phillips for refusing to make the cake at his Masterpiece Cakeshop.
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The three-judge panel said a stationery store that includes the customized design of wedding event merchandise is not “entitled to First Amendment free speech protections.”
“The case before us is one of a blanket refusal of service to the LGBTQ community,” the judges said.
Phoenix expanded the ordinance in 2013 to include protections against discrimination and bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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And they issued this ruling right after the Masterpiece ruling in the SCOTUS.
The appellants in Brush & Nib v. Phoenix:
” blanket refusal of service”
So they’ve denied selling them birthday cards?
I’ll see your Arizona Appeals Court and raise you one SCOTUS.
Overruled and remanded.
The three-judge panel said a stationery store that includes the customized design of wedding event merchandise is not “entitled to First Amendment free speech protections.”
I wonder if these gay couples go to several card designers and cake bakers until they find one who refuses them, then they raise a stink about being refused.....
Walk the streets of Provincetown Cap Code in the summertime? Can’t bring a child through the streets unless you have planned to use it as an educational field trip of what a scintilla of Sodom and Gomorrah was like.
You got it.
Because it’s so difficult to locate a homosexual who chose cake decorating or floral arranging as a career field.
I know there’s a lot of people in this world who dislike me. The last thing I ever intend to do is to force them to cook food for me.
Absolutely unconstitutional federal ruling as the feds have no constitutional authority in matters of marriage or sodomy. These are states’ issues.
It is up to the people of the state of AZ to strike down this foul Phoenix law. Changes are very good the law violates AZ Constitution. if not, it is up to the pole of AZ to vote for an amendment to the AZ constitution supporting life, liberty, and free pursuits and forbidding government coercion against such.
Arizona’s courts tend to be liberal. All courts do, I guess. The legislature needs to slap them down. Maybe a statewide religious freedom act, overruling all localities?
They actually do.
Reddit and Freeper threads investigated this story. Would you believe there were around 50 (FIFTY) bakeries who specialized in wedding cakes within 100 miles of the 2 faggots who made the first case..and chose the ONLY Christian baker outside that 100 mile radius?
Of course they targeted the Christians specifically just to make a point!
This sh!t will go on until the U.S. Supreme Court rules (correctly) that most anti-discrimination laws are blatantly unconstitutional.
Thank former Governor Jan Brewer for cowering before the sodomites hordes and vetoing their religious liberty bill.
That is why women in executive positions is far inferior to equally competent men.
Arizona is in, what appellate federal court district? That’s right, the 9th Circus.
I live in a state where the legislature *and* the courts have an unapologetic contempt for the 2nd Amendment.In fact,SCOTUS recently struck down a Massachusetts law restricting these rights by a 9-0 vote.
OTOH,this Arizona court has violated someone's First Amendment rights.
It is unfortunate that so many Bill of Rights cases are being decided in the courts and not in the legislatures.
The distances and circumstances may change, but the goal rem ains the same. I am only surprised that this is happening in Arizona rather than, say, Oregon or Vermont.
These ladies truly are artists. Ya gotta love red blooded American women. Check out their website.
Those amendments are pointed directly and exclusively at the feds and nowhere else.
The Constitution does NOT forbid the people of each state to decide for themselves about these matters. Again, marriage and sodomy are constitutionally state, not federal, issues.
And may I remind you that since the feds have unconstitutionally taken it upon themselves to enforce on the states their own exclusive constitutional prohibitions, they have perpetrated a parade of horribles including forbidding prayer and the Bible in schools, forcing quotas and affirmative action, overturned state anti-abortion laws, forcing the gay agenda in the name of “civil rights”, threatening to snuff out the 2nd amendment and on and on.
The feds are NOT your friend. If you don’t keep the feds chained up tight with the Constitution the feds will destroy you, me, our freedoms, our lives, and America.
Why didn’t they go to a Muslim Owned business?
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