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Denver Cakeshop refuses to bake wedding cake for gay couple
Denver Westward ^ | July 20 2012 | Kelsey Whipple

Posted on 07/22/2012 1:38:27 PM PDT by scottjewell

Edited on 07/22/2012 1:44:39 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: SeaHawkFan

I know exactly where this cake shop is, and I’m sure these men knew exactly the type of reaction their request would get. Why didn’t they go to the gay-owned alternative-themed cake shop to begin with? Like you said, it’s all about extortion, and attention.


61 posted on 07/22/2012 2:24:46 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: rabidralph
what about their gay friends in Denver, couldn’t they recommend some gay-friendly bake shops?

Of course they could. But this is about creating an "incident" to generate negative publicity about Masterpiece. I'm pretty sure their gay friends in Denver told them what would happen when they went into the shop.

63 posted on 07/22/2012 2:26:55 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: scottjewell

Look, if these two guys want they can open their own bakeshop and when a man and woman come and ask for a wedding cake, they can say: “Sorry, we don’t do ‘his and hers’ wedding cakes.” That would be THEIR right, just as it is the right of Masterpiece Cakeshop to not do ‘his and his’ wedding cakes.


64 posted on 07/22/2012 2:27:44 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: scottjewell
The owner of Lakewood's Masterpiece Cakeshop could have prevented all of this. And kept his high reviews. All he had to do was comprise his morals and standards just this one time.
and maybe the next time. And the next time. And the next. And maybe just a few times more.
But he would have been held in very high esteem by Denver's deviant community.
65 posted on 07/22/2012 2:29:36 PM PDT by Tupelo (TeaPartier ..... but no longer a Republican)
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To: Steamburg
Then they got bent over by a limp wristed defense of the Amendment by none other than, then Attorney General Ken Salazar.

Revisionist history. Gale Norton was the Attorney General when Amendment 2 was argued at the Supreme Court on 10 October 1995, Romer v. Evans. The court rendered its 6-3 decision that Amendment 2 was unconstitutional on 20 May 1996. Salazar was sworn in as Attorney General on 12 January 1999.

66 posted on 07/22/2012 2:30:42 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: scottjewell

The precedent has been set; when the flying feathers finally settle, the building in which this bakery formerly operated will probably be a gey bar, massage parlor and/ or bath house.

Remember; back in Biblical Sodom these cats didn’t want to just seduce the pretty angels; they wanted to RAPE them.

It’s not about “rights”; it’s all about POWER.


67 posted on 07/22/2012 2:36:37 PM PDT by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: scottjewell

Business owners could avoid a lot of trouble if they only said the following:

“Sorry, but we’re all booked up.”


68 posted on 07/22/2012 2:37:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: scottjewell

3...2...1 I am waitng fo Ellen DeGereres to show up and pay for their wedding trip to Provincetown and reception in Denver.


69 posted on 07/22/2012 2:40:53 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: scottjewell

I would not make a cake for them either. My business, my right to not act in a way that promotes immorality, indecency and perversion


70 posted on 07/22/2012 2:56:04 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

The courts might be able to force them to make a cake, but they can’t force them to make a good cake.


71 posted on 07/22/2012 3:09:47 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1279 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: dfwgator

That would be good for a business that is truly booked up but for a business that isn’t and the owners are Christian, lying like that would probably bother them more than the job itself.

I believe the business owners should go ahead and take the job, do the best they can with it like they would with any customer and let these agitators know that their payment will be donated to the local Exodus International, P-FOX (Parents and Friends of EX-Gays) or any other organization (Christian or not) dedicated to helping homosexuals escape this sin. In fact, mention that on the first visit if they bring up their “proclivities”. Draw up a legally binding contract that would provide major grief if they decide to breach it.

That would probably stop a lot of these “set ups”.


72 posted on 07/22/2012 3:11:04 PM PDT by Sister_T
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To: Sister_T

That sounds like a pretty good idea.


73 posted on 07/22/2012 3:13:12 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: scottjewell

Does Denver have gay inclusive non-discrimination laws? If yes, the owners of the cakeshop need to close up shop and move their assets overseas. They will shortly be getting a short letter from the ACLU, and the next several years will be spent in nerve wracking court battles. Also personal harassment, and protesters outside their shop.


74 posted on 07/22/2012 3:13:19 PM PDT by BurningOak (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830849/reply?c=1)
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To: scottjewell

Gays should be denied using the rainbow in any way. It disgusts me how they just up and stole the f-ing thing, and now we can’t buy our kids ANYTHING with a rainbow on it. Sickening.


75 posted on 07/22/2012 3:15:58 PM PDT by montag813
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To: yoe
Bravo Mr. Phillips....this is still a free country and Mr. Phillips just exercised his Constitutional Right

HAHA! I guess you haven't read the New International Version of the Constitution, with the right to abortion, "equal rights" for homosexuals (and soon pedophiles and polygamists) and without any right to bear arms. THAT is the version which 80% of judges across the land use now, and it is what will DESTROY Mr. Phillips before the end.

76 posted on 07/22/2012 3:18:57 PM PDT by montag813
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To: scottjewell
This incident smells like a carefully contrived set-up to garner attention and, most of all, sympathy for'gay marriage'. First, this guy picks a cake shop probably well-known for being run by someone who does not approve of 'same-sex 'marriage' and tries to order a wedding cake, making it clear that it's for his wedding to another man. Predictably, the shop owner says no and the gay guy storms off, all offended and running to the media with this 'story' of intolerable discrimination. He knows full well the media will run with it because they want to champion 'gay rights' and the pretension of 'gay marriage' sanctity. He also knows that plenty of useful idiots, assuming they are demonstrating tolerance (the teenagers cheering this guy's alleged 'outrage' are just uninformed) will chime in with internet support and perhaps some threats of violence, which he can oh-so calmly discourage, showing his deep desire for 'justice', not revenge.

Thus, the media wars against traditional values take another turn and homosexual behavior gets yet another face-lift in the public eye. Not as the gross misuse of our human sexuality it is but some sort of pure, love-based human right being horribly abused by a guy who bakes cakes for a living and didn't sell one to the gay man who cursed at him as he left the baker's shop. Only in Obama's America.

77 posted on 07/22/2012 3:20:14 PM PDT by Jim Scott (Obama must be defeated)
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To: Marcella

The social media calls it a “cash mob.” People are tweeted to show up at a local business and spend money. The purpose is to support locally owned businesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_mob


78 posted on 07/22/2012 3:28:50 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Public unions exist to protect the unions from the taxpaying public)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Right on all counts. Yep, they spoiled the rainbow.


79 posted on 07/22/2012 3:49:28 PM PDT by scottjewell
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Thank you, I stand corrected.


80 posted on 07/22/2012 3:50:12 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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