Posted on 08/15/2018 7:24:38 AM PDT by Ennis85
The Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple and was vindicated by the Supreme Court earlier this year is mounting another legal challenge this week after refusing to bake a gender-transitioning cake. Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled in June that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission discriminated against baker Jack Phillips for his religious beliefs, an attorney requested he create a cake that was pink on the inside and blue on the outside to represent a gender transition from male to female. As a Christian, Mr. Phillips would not make the cake since it conflicted with his beliefs, which was his same reasoning for refusing to bake the same-sex couple’s wedding cake. The state of Colorado has come after Mr. Phillips again, suggesting state law requires him to bake the gender change cake. It’s the newest complaint mounted against him, which has forced Mr. Phillips to file a federal lawsuit Tuesday. “The state of Colorado is ignoring the message of the U.S. Supreme Court by continuing to single out Jack for punishment and to exhibit hostility toward his religious beliefs,” said Kristen Waggoner, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty law firm defending Mr. Phillips.
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Agreed.
The war on Christianity continues.
The State is apparently trying to force him to leave. They don’t want anyone that thinks for themselves, or stands for something other than what the liberal State wants. Colorado is on its way to becoming another California.
Next thing you know we’ll all be refusing to do stuff for one another because I’m straight, you’re gay, he’s black, she’s asian, he’s a Christian, she’s wearing a scarf, he has a gold watch, I don’t like the look on her face... Where does it end? Huh?
So what?
He was represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which the Southern Poverty Law center considers a hate group. Please consider thanking them with a small donation, they are on the forefront of defending religious freedom cases.
Deliberate harassment. By government and token offendees.
Eventually this guy is going to learn how to just put people off until they go away. I give him props for being a fighter though!
And, why not just request a blue and pink cake without mentioning the purpose if one just wanted service and wasn't trying to bully the baker?
Bakers are usually small independent businesses where you lack both the finances and support system for a protracted legal battle.
Once you make a few examples, the thought was, the rest will cave. Especially with those on the "right" pushing that the person do everything BUT stand up for their rights under the First Amendment.
Two things have stopped that. They went overboard with the penalties and Donald Trump.
If the fines had been small the temptation to just pay it so it would go away would be profound. Once you give in you admit that they have the "right" to punish you. Once that ground is given up you never win it back.
As for Donald Trump being the other factor, this decision would not have been in his favor with that obama nominated shoe scraping on the SCOTUS.
They did and the mohammedan's refused. The board said that was perfectly fine as it would have violated their beliefs to make the cake.
In liberal land being mohammedan trumps being a sodomite every time.
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Don’t think you are going to be competing with me here! This was MY idea.
Your post #63 is exactly correct. This is happening because the grounds for Kennedy’s majority opinion were too narrow to set a precedent on the core issue.
I’m a simple redneck who believes in live and let live....I have no idea how people who are harassed like this don’t go Postal on these sorry MF’ers....
Not bake the cake.
So how long have you had this tendency to want to enslave people?
Just because you offer me money to do something does not mean that I am obliged to do it.
I am not your slave, I am a free person and if I don't want to make a "Hurray for Mao" sign, or design a "Happy Abortion" card or design your "sex before eight or else it is too late" website, I am not going to do it.
That is the right of a free person.
Agree completely.
Just watch. He's going to lose this time.
I wouldn't be so sure. Kavanaugh apparently doesn't have the same idiosyncratic views on gay/gender issues as did Kennedy.
Patty cake, tranny cake, give the wog your home…
Maybe these psycho pervs should learn to bake their own disgusting ass cakes.
He would? When was Jesus violent??
“”10 years ago who would have thought that bakers and cakes would have been the vanguard of this battle?”
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60 years ago the person who requested the cake would have been beaten to a pulp. That would have been the end of that type of request.
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He should grab a loaf of bread from his shelf and tell the customer it is a cake...it identifies as a cake that is. If things are what we say they are the baker can do it too.
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