Disgusting....
This evil - the idea that individuals must obey all government commands regardless of their personal beliefs and that some religious beliefs are unacceptable - was underground for 70 years, but it’s back. National Socialists disgusted me long ago, and today’s socialists still disgust me. I miss the rule of law.
The Epitome of Leftist Religious Tolerance: None for Christians.
While I don’t agree with the decision, I don’t understand why the shop owners don’t make a hidious cake for these customers. The customers can then either take the cake, or walk.
I don’t see this as a big deal.
$500 for all homo cakes with “special seasonings” and $25 for all hetero cakes.
He should stop doing wedding cakes for anyone. Instead he could make a plain white stacked- layer cake. The customer can decorate it anyway they wish, and he could not be charged with discrimination by the ungodly sodomites.
The suggestion that he sell them brownies was funny, though.
Over the past several months, I have seen federal judge after federal judge strike down state laws and amendments declaring marriage to be between a man and a woman.
I expect these same judges to rule against THIS man and force him into the reeducation camp.
FAGGOTS Uber Alles.
So much for “Reserving the right to refuse service...” I don’t care if it IS your business, that you worked to develop. It’s not your business, or your home, if someone else can tell you what you can or can’t do, or require a permit, or...
In a way, I’m glad cases like this come up, because they expose the left for the tyrants they are, notwithstanding the burdens placed upon Mr. Phillips. Sometimes we are called to witness in the weirdest ways, but when called, see it for what it is and must fear not.
The Civil Rights Commission’s order requires Phillips and his staff to make cakes for same-sex celebrations if asked.
We used to call this Involuntary Servitude
So if two people came in and wanted a wedding cake done to celebrate their Muslim vows, will he do it? If they come in wanting a wedding cake that praised Satan, would they do it?
It would be worth it to have some other test cases come to his shop just to show that his refusal goes beyond simply homosexuals. That this is just “one of a group” of cakes he would refuse to do.
He should also partner with another business that would have no such objections and refer those customers to that other business, including handing them that partner’s business card. In that sense, they are not refusing the request but redirecting the request.
Now, let’s say that a person performed wedding music instead of baked cakes and they had strong anti-Catholic views. Would the state of Colorado *compel* these musicians to perform at a Catholic wedding? If the answer is “no”, tell me the difference between objecting to wedding cakes and objecting to wedding music? How is it in the state’s interest to override the views, religious or not, of those who are asked to violate their own beliefs?
Shut the business down and restart as something else.
# the state and its statist scumbags.
There’s a very simple and elegant solution to this:
He agrees to bake the cake. But upfront tells the couple that all profits will be donated to a Christian organization that provides Gay Conversion Therapy. He can even offer to provide the donation in their name, if they’d like him to.
The problem will quickly solve itself.
“He must also re-educate his staff about Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act. Under that law, artists must endorse all views. “
Then they aren’t artists anymore. Art has apparently been outlawed in Colorado.
This is no different than having a requirement to bow to the Golden Calf whenever the “Diversity” music is played. Good for him for disobeying. No King, but King Jesus!
masterpiececakeshop@msn.com
Well that was a malarkey accusation. He is happy to serve customers regardless of their 'sexual orientation' - because he should not even know the customer's sexual orientation. He just refuses to make cakes that have messages on them that he - the baker and owner - finds offensive.
Would the Colorado Commission take Mr. Phillips to task if he refused to make a cake that had white hooded Klansmen (modeled after Grand Keagle Robert Byrd) lynching a black man? He'd be infringing on the Klan's right to free speech -- for consistency sake the Commission should insist that the baker should provide that product also. They'd be wrong -- as they are for insisting that a Christian baker bakes a cake celebrating a sodomite liaison.
The company I work for started the b.s. called “diversity” training only a few months before I retired in 1999, large company and attendance was mandatory.
I missed the class three different times, boss knew I was about to retire and left me alone about it. Wink and a nod type situation.