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Clarence Thomas facepalm: Oral arguments for Masterpiece Cakeshop
The American Thinker ^ | 12/06/17 | Erin Mersino

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.

***SNIP***

...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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To: Spruce

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.


81 posted on 12/06/2017 11:04:36 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: pgkdan

bump


82 posted on 12/06/2017 11:06:52 AM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: dfwgator

That sounds like some TV sitcom.


83 posted on 12/06/2017 11:12:39 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: pgkdan

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.


84 posted on 12/06/2017 11:13:41 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper
Actually it was a movie....


85 posted on 12/06/2017 11:13:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger
Why don’t gays ever go to Muslim bakeries?

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.

86 posted on 12/06/2017 11:14:19 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Ban pre-shredded cheese now! Make America Grate Again.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman
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87 posted on 12/06/2017 11:16:14 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: GraceG

That’s a great idea.


88 posted on 12/06/2017 11:17:27 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: thingumbob
In a September 2005 People Magazine article, it had "Today their daughter Josie is 5 and son Jack is 4", which would make their ages as of Sept 2018 be 18 and 17 (with the younger sibling 4 months younger than the older, that would mean his turning 18 sometime before Jan 2019).

At the point they both turn 18, details of their adoption become moot.

89 posted on 12/06/2017 11:23:06 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: GraceG

“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.


90 posted on 12/06/2017 11:52:25 AM PST by aquila48 (Bookmark)
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To: Spruce
I’d make the cake, all right. It would be a complete disaster and ruin the whole wedding.

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.

91 posted on 12/06/2017 1:50:10 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Uranium One = BRIBERY and TREASON - HANG THEM ALL!!!!)
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To: Spruce

92 posted on 12/06/2017 1:52:28 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Spruce

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.


93 posted on 12/06/2017 2:45:39 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: sparklite2

An expert is one who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

You’re an expert.


94 posted on 12/06/2017 3:54:11 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Words mean things, HTR. You know that.
Don’t be peeved by corrections, learn from them.


95 posted on 12/06/2017 4:49:05 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: GraceG
You're assuming some kind of consistency, flowing from some deeply held principles.

Good luck with that.

96 posted on 12/07/2017 12:46:50 PM PST by gogeo (Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
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