Posted on 04/04/2015 10:15:06 AM PDT by lowbridge
One law for us, one law for them.
Separate and unequal
Marjorie Silva, the owner of the bakery ... but would not decorate them with the biblical verses and the image of the groomsmen that he requested ...
I sugged Ms. Silva look up the definition of "discriminate." She most certainly does.
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Segregation is back!
Clear violation of a persons right to free speech, they need to fine the Azucar Bakery 130,000 and they need to open up a GOFUND me page for these person to get his money back. Yep... What is good for the goose, is good for the gander.
Apparently not.
This is going to become settled law, only Christians will be forced to make and do things that offend them.
Very simple. Homosexuals are defined as a protected group, Christians are not.
Therefore, a business can refuse to provide specific services to Christians but not to homosexuals.
“only Christians will be forced to make and do things that offend them.”
Not this one. Leftism is evil, and I never have, nor will I give into it.
These activists are doing this wrong.
He should NOT have asked the bakery to make an anti-anything cake. He should’ve asked for a cake that was PRO-traditional marriage. He should’ve asked for wording that was positive for something (not negative) so that it was PRO-marriage.
Then he still would’ve made his point, and the bakery would’ve refused to make the cake, but he might’ve made a better argument in court.
We now know how all of these are going to go. I’m struggling to find the right words, but essentially, the problem is not a lack of laws, or a logical argument. The problem is the people we have in power. This same “Civil Right Division” is trying to put a Lakewood baker out of business. Does anyone really think a law will stop them? Why should it?
I just really think everything we’re doing to fight this is completely wrong. We’re trying to get them to obey their own rules, be consistent, be tolerate when they’ve shown us over and over they’re not interested in that.
Let this also be another lesson to all you COS people. The Left will not comply with any amendment. Not a single one. We need to disobey them, or remove them from power, or get out of their reach. We need to do that unilaterally: no law or process is needed to legitimate it.
He would have lost no matter what because the ruling class’ goal is the suppression of Christianity.
Well, if we’re now at the point in which we live under a government that is forcing us at the point of a gun to directly go against our religion and our concsciences, we will are also arriving at a point in which a gun needs to be pointed back at the government.
The same thing for Christian florists. Sell them the flowers, but have them delivered in big boxes. Allow the customer to arrange and place the flowers as they see fit.
He would’ve made his point, though. This doesn’t make his point.
I’m not reading stories about anyone walking into a Christian bakery and asking for a cake decorated with a message like, “Christianity is evil,” for example. (Oh, they might believe that, but that’s not the wording they’re asking for on the cake.)
They’re asking for cakes with two grooms, two brides, or rainbows with “pro-” messages. Yes, in a way, they’re saying the same thing, but in a different way.
That’s what pro-Religious Freedom activists need to do - ask for a message that comes across as pro-something, not anti-something. Such as a message that’s pro-National Organization for Marriage.
They should ask for the NOM symbol on the cake:
https://www.nationformarriage.org/
With words such as: “National Organization for Marriage celebrates traditional marriage.”
No one is being directly attacked that way. The bakery still would refuse to bake that cake. But, this way, a better argument could be made in court.
different laws for different people
The new apartheid
She discriminated against Christians.
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