Posted on 12/06/2017 8:43:11 AM PST by pgkdan
Yesterday morning, I had the honor of attending oral argument before the United States Supreme Court. The case being argued was Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, commonly referred to as the "gay wedding cake case."
The case involves a humble Christian baker, Jack Phillips, in the sleepy town of Lakewood, Colorado, who received a phone call one day to create a custom wedding cake for two men attempting to marry each other. Phillips responded by inviting the couple to purchase any goods in his bakery while declining to create a custom cake for the celebration because his Christian values forbid him to promote an understanding of marriage that includes same-sex couples. Five years, a plethora of fines and penalties from the State of Colorado, and several boycotts of his bakery later, the state is still forcing Phillips to make custom cakes for these same-sex celebrations, and Phillips finds himself fighting in the nation's highest court for his First Amendment freedoms of speech and religious exercise. The couple who called Phillips ended up receiving their cake for free from a different baker. The cake was a replica of the rainbow flag to celebrate the gay rights movement.
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...Then Justices Kagan and Sotomayor administered a pop quiz, naming foods, art, buildings, and creative enterprises and demanding to know if the objects or general categories of study they posed are expression and, therefore, protected speech under the First Amendment. At one point, Justice Thomas covered his face with his full palm at the incomplete responses and failures to get to the relevant.
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You stated “I’d make the cake, all right. It would be a complete disaster and ruin the whole wedding.” If it were me I would give them a chocolate pie so it would blend with their sexual parts, clothing and sheets upon their wedding night. I’m sure they would be extra excited over that because they could eat it too.
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That sounds like some TV sitcom.
Any bakery that objects to same sex wedding cakes should agree to make the cake and when the “boys” come to pick it up, stumble and drop it.
There are videos on YT of people doing this and being soundly rebuffed. Now, I'd like to see a real gay couple try it and then try to sue a muslim baker.
That’s a great idea.
At the point they both turn 18, details of their adoption become moot.
“Funny how muslims can express and retain what the left consider “bigoted values” but dare a single christian to be true to some of the MILDER forms of the same beliefs and KATIE BAR THE ###### DOOR!”
It’s no mystery. If Christians did some “terrorizing” of their own they’d be left alone, too.
I knew some girls who made a teacher [she deserved it] a cake frosted with "ex-lax" chocolate frosting. That recipe immediate comes to mind for the fudge packers.
If you can be compelled, essentially at the point of a gun, to bake a cake, then you can be compelled to bake a good cake.
An expert is one who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
You’re an expert.
Words mean things, HTR. You know that.
Don’t be peeved by corrections, learn from them.
Good luck with that.
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