Posted on 07/23/2014 9:38:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Colorado baker who was found guilty of discrimination for not baking a wedding cake for a same-sex couple is appealing the decision.
Jake Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop hopes to win at the appellate level after being told that he must serve gay couples wedding cakes and take a diversity course.
Phillips is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, who filed the appeal in the Colorado Court of Appeals last Wednesday.
ADF lead counsel Nicolle Martin, who is involved in the appeal, said in a statement that Phillips did not unlawfully discriminate against anyone, but rather refused to endorse something he morally disagreed with.
"This is not about the people who asked for a cake; it's about the message the cake communicates," said Martin.
"Just as Jack doesn't create baked works of art for other events with which he disagrees, he doesn't create cake art for same-sex ceremonies regardless of who walks in the door to place the order."
In 2012, Charlie Craig and David Mullins wanted Phillips to make a cake for their wedding reception.
Phillips explained to the couple that he could make them other baked items but, because of his Christian beliefs, he will not make them a cake for their reception.
With the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Craig and Mullins filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division.
The division determined that Masterpiece Cakeshop had discriminated against them. According to the ACLU, the division's findings led the state attorney general's office to file a formal complaint against the company via the state courts.
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RE: I don’t know (or care)if it’s constitutional. It’s my business.
Well, I personally believe that it is.
ALLOWING a racist to NOT associate with blacks does not necessarily mean that one ENDORSES what he does.
LET HIM. The constitution gives him that Freedom.
If he wants to lose business because of his racism, that’s his foolish choice. I’m sure there are those who will pick up the slack.
Let SOCIETY ostracize the man (I personally will). Get government out of it.
So you think destroying the black family structure and raising the illegitimacy rate from 17 to 78 per cent was a bad thing?
You must be a conservative....
RE: What if PRIVATE BUSINESSES in the south had been allowed to continue to discriminate.
I believe that the PRIVATE BUSINESS that discriminate will soon be OSTRACIZED by most Americans and OTHER BUSINESSES that don’t discriminate will soon overtake them and run them out of business because customers will flock to the latter and shun the former.
religious freedom is the trump card... i shouldn’t have to condone someone’s bad behavior...
but if we set rules against discrimination, where do we draw the lines.
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RE: but if we set rules against discrimination, where do we draw the lines.
precisely. If I were in charge ( which i am not of course ), I would NOT outlaw ANY form of discrimination (racial or otherwise ).
Let people choose who they want to associate with.
The morally repugnant business will soon be shunned.
A cake laced with poison would be the best thing in the world to the LGBT crazies. It would have the same effect as a dead Palestinian child under a missile launcher in Gaza.
A lot of good came out of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It would have been better if the law applied only to governments.
The private sector has a profit motive and most businesses would eventually not dicriminate on the basis of thosed covered people. Those that did discriminate would have been shunned by the good citizens of any area.
If you know anything of the bus strikes in some southern cities, the were successful because good Christian white women used their vehicles and gas to transport blacks around town to the point the public transit agencieswere losing so much money, they had to treat blacks the same as whites.
Exactly.
Make the cake, but make it badly.
Will all this injustice be corrected should the GOP take over?
Just don’t do it.
This rehab person must have read about Stalin’s Gulags and took it to heart.
They'd never get me in the van. There'd be blood and entrails all over the place, along with some just dulled knives.
The Bill of Rights does not give you anything nor does it have the power to ALLOW you to do anything. What it does do is acknowledge that you have certain rights by birth (call them God-given or natural or whatever you choose) and guarantee that government will do nothing to deprive you of those rights.
Too many people make the mistake of saying that “the government gives you the right” to do this or that that. The only thing government gives anybody is a hard time.
RE: Just don’t do it.
What happens to your business if you don’t?
And oh BTW, what happened to the gay couple whose service was refused? I’m sure they got “married” anyway .... or are they still waiting for this baker to bake them the cake?
we would have to allow competition for those who are shunned to open similar businesses to service the shunned population... separate but equal???
teeman
like the cake made in that movie about southern maids...
yes. why not. the law should protect his decision. and the law should protect anyone wanting to open a business to compete with his business.
well i am glad we solved that one.
Yeah, understood.
I did think of something I could put in the cake, but the gays would probably like THAT, but then again, the lesbians would be repulsed.
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