shoulda told them Do you really want somebody that thinks you are nothing but filthy disease ridden queers to make you a cake?
Posted on 06/06/2013 2:33:40 PM PDT by markomalley
A gay couple is pursuing a discrimination complaint against a Colorado bakery, saying the business refused them a wedding cake to honor their Massachusetts ceremony, and alleging that the owners have a history of turning away same-sex couples.
As more states move to legalize same-sex marriage and civil unions, the case highlights a growing tension between gay rights advocates and supporters of religious freedom.
"Religious freedom is a fundamental right in America and it's something that we champion at the ACLU," said Mark Silverstein, the legal director of the group in Colorado, which filed the complaint on behalf of the couple. "We are all entitled to our religious beliefs and we fight for that. But someone's personal religious beliefs don't justify breaking the law by discriminating against others in the public sphere."
The attorney for Jack Phillips, one of the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, sees it differently.
"We don't believe that this is a case about commerce. At its heart, this is a case about conscience," said Nicolle Martin. She said the matter is important because it will serve as an example for future cases across the country as more gay couples gain legal recognitions for their relationships.
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Perverts get “married” and then start suing! No one saw that coming........
Speaking of which, I would just agree to bake the cake for them. With "special" ingredients.
Why do the gays have to be such bigots? Why do they have to target businesses who do not hold their beliefs or want to do business with them?
Geez....just go give your business to someone else.
shoulda told them Do you really want somebody that thinks you are nothing but filthy disease ridden queers to make you a cake?
To answer the question: How does our gay marriage affect you? You either acknowledge it and bake our cake or we’ll sue your pants off.
This isn’t about cake but rather the destruction of religious beliefs.
“They didn’t want a wedding cake. If they did, they wouldn’t have gone to a bakery that has “history of turning away same-sex couples”.
They just wanted to start something.”
Exactly. If I know that a business is run by someone that has a philosophy that I disagree with, the last thing I would want to do would be to reward them with my money.
That's actually the way I see. If I was preparing for a once in lifetime event I would rather be told up front that a business I approached did not want my business for whatever reason. Than for the government to FORCE them to serve me and end up with a half-@ssed, dog's breakfast disaster because they aren't putting 10% into the effort let alone 110%. And while I understand that I could try and take them to civil court after the fact if they REALLY screwed it up, the damage is already done, that special day is ruined. I would rather pay the money to a company that doesn't despise me anyway...
Aye, Kizzy!
100%... it would be the most bland cake ever baked
It is interesting: private businesses can refuse to serve those open carrying. Even though carrying a firearm is a constitutional right.
Yet they apparently can’t refuse to serve homos, although faggotry is not a constitutional right.
I hope an attorney out there points this out to the Supreme Court. This is madness.
Throw them a bone so they can stay in business.
Gay cats! Riiiight!
The Civil Rights movement destroyed the right to freedom of association.
There's an old restaurant adage: Don't be rude to the waiter.
They control exactly what comes out of the kitchen.
It would be like a white guy asking for a piece of pie delivered by Jesse Jackson.
Would YOU eat that?
I sure as hell wouldn't.
And for good reason.
Exactly. It is the targeting of religious beliefs. As the bakery is well know for refusing ‘gay’ cakes.
So...it is the gay community in this case that are being the bigots/Nazi-like minions of secular society.
I don’t ask the Amish to bake my cake...
I would have made the cake...complete with little black pellets sprinkled all over.
No, they purposely bully *wedding* cake bakers, *wedding* planners, *wedding* photographers, and florists for *wedding* flowers, agitating for these specific services. In doing so they force the businesses to either contract into (i.e. validate) what is a brazen lie, or be legally persecuted for refusing to exchange the truth for that lie.
These malicious malcontents aren't *merely* trying to suppress and stomp out subjective religious beliefs... they are in all-out war against reality itself. The truth is that there is no such thing as a same-sex "marriage", but having the beast system on their side embracing the lie, they feel perfectly free to terrorize those whose core values remain firmly grounded in reality.
Bowing down is the expected position these days. You either bow down or get fined and prosecuted to death.The latest wave of laws on abortion and gay marriage are meant to make it impossible to hold beliefs, religious or otherwise, in contradiction to those of the state. That's a somewhat new phenomenon in the United States, but a familiar one in Europe. And the consequence of these Orwellian measures is the stratification of these societies into three categories.
They didn’t get their cake so they are forcing this person out of business.
What a love affair they must have. Perverted basterds.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 nullified that idea.
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