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To: Fishtalk
Pat, the court agreed with the baker and defended his right not to bake the cake. The state of Colorado came down on the baker like a ton of bricks. It almost killed his business. The court held that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed hostility toward the baker based on his religious beliefs.

In 2012, David Mullins and Charlie Craig asked Phillips to bake a cake to celebrate their planned wedding, which would be performed in another state. Phillips said he couldn't create the product they were looking for without violating his faith.

"The Bible says, 'In the beginning there was male and female,'" Phillips said.

He offered to make any other baked goods for the men. "At which point they both stormed out and left," he said. Mullins and Craig filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which ruled in their favor, citing a state anti-discrimination law. Phillips took his case to the Colorado Court of Appeals, arguing that requiring him to provide a wedding cake for the couple violated his constitutional right to freedom of speech and free exercise of religion.

The court held that the state anti-discrimination law was neutral and generally applicable and did not compel Phillips' Masterpiece Cakeshop to "support or endorse any particular religious view." It simply prohibited Phillips from discriminating against potential customers on account of their sexual orientation.

The Trump administration sided with Phillips. "A custom wedding cake is not an ordinary baked good; its function is more communicative and artistic than utilitarian," Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued. "Accordingly, the government may not enact content-based laws commanding a speaker to engage in protected expression: An artist cannot be forced to paint, a musician cannot be forced to play, and a poet cannot be forced to write."

75 posted on 06/10/2018 8:04:35 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Next, two gay guys will want to rent a Tux for their wedding.

The tux store owner will deny for sexual preference.

Then we have the caterer and he sure ain’t going to cook for friends of a queer couple, so he refuses.

I think these people ought to concentrate of banning same sex marriages from being legal.

the other stuff is....well I said silly so I say it again.

Moving on....OMG Susan Rice on Face the Nation.

She says the Obama admin did everything to control Kim Jong-Un and Trump won’t be able to do it either.

Does anybody remember Yassar Arafat?

I recall Hillary and Madeline Albright laughing it up with Arafat, such a wonderful man, spent his old age locked in a building and is now buried in somebody’s yard.

Nobody ever mentions Arafat anymore.

As I conclude, get elected in America and collect lots of bucks with despots and dictators. Drink win with them. Smile and laugh and make toasts.

Susan Rice. Woman wouldn’t know the truth if it came up and spit in her face.


84 posted on 06/10/2018 8:22:32 AM PDT by Fishtalk
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