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Baker Who Refused to Make Wedding Cake for Same-Sex Couple Willing to Go to Jail for His Beliefs
The Blaze ^ | Jun. 5, 2014 | Erica Ritz

Posted on 06/06/2014 3:25:33 AM PDT by kingattax

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips created a national controversy after refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, saying it violates his religious beliefs.

After Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission upheld a judge’s ruling that he must serve gay couples, Phillips calmly told Glenn Beck on Thursday that he is willing to go to jail for his beliefs.

“If that’s what it took,” he said. “I’m not giving up my faith for anything. It’s too high a price to pay.”

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courage. it took uncommon courage to win our freedom and it's going to take uncommon courage to save it.
1 posted on 06/06/2014 3:25:33 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

Have we finally found the one person with the courage to not back down unlike the Chick-Fil-A coward?


2 posted on 06/06/2014 3:30:59 AM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: kingattax

He should relocate to a sane sate.

Assuming there are any of those left, that is...


3 posted on 06/06/2014 3:33:05 AM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: icwhatudo

I think those brothers who flip homes and lost their tv show because of their beliefs didn’t back down. I thought they said that if they lose a tv show because of their beliefs, then so be it.

Going to jail - very courageous.


4 posted on 06/06/2014 3:33:47 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: icwhatudo
"Have we finally found the one person with the courage to not back down unlike the Chick-Fil-A coward?"

I think so. I love Chick-Fil-A, but my tounge will never touch another one. I supported them until they caved. Now they can kiss my grits. . . . .

5 posted on 06/06/2014 3:34:24 AM PDT by DeaconRed (D-Day Thank you brave military for a job well done. . . . . We are free thanks to You! ! ! !)
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To: MAexile
He should relocate to a sane sate.

No he should not! He should do EXACTLY what he is doing! Hopefully, it will give people enough courage to stand up to these freedom hating thugs!

At some point this shinola is going to have to be dealt with or we will all lose our freedom.

6 posted on 06/06/2014 3:37:49 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: kingattax

One has to admire Jack Phillips.


7 posted on 06/06/2014 3:55:42 AM PDT by ransacked
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To: icwhatudo; DeaconRed

What ARE you talking about?
Chick fil a never backed down!


8 posted on 06/06/2014 3:57:26 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Guenevere

Sadly he did. He even said he would keep his mouth shut from now on.


9 posted on 06/06/2014 3:59:25 AM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Guenevere
"Chick-fil-A CEO Cathy: Gay Marriage Still Wrong, But I'll Shut Up About It And Sell Chicken"

That sir is C-A-V-I-N-G.
That is why I will NEVER eat another of his sammies.

10 posted on 06/06/2014 4:06:26 AM PDT by DeaconRed (D-Day Thank you brave military for a job well done. . . . . We are free thanks to You! ! ! !)
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To: kingattax

I will send money, to support him, if this comes about.


11 posted on 06/06/2014 4:07:16 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: kingattax

Pray for this brave man. Even A few seconds of prayer will be the best thing you can do to help him today.


12 posted on 06/06/2014 4:08:17 AM PDT by kitkat (STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: MAexile

Faggies rule! Holder says so!

Now let the rest of us govern ourselves accordingly....


13 posted on 06/06/2014 4:14:06 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: kitkat

Actually, even better would be for anyone who lives in the area to order a cake.

That is, if you need a cake.

I wonder if one of the legal charities is helping him out. When a government starts bullying business owners to run their business the way petty bureaucrats want them to run the business, then we have fascism, not liberty.


14 posted on 06/06/2014 4:16:01 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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“This is your art. This is your passion. And now you’re being told exactly what you can and can’t do. This is not America. This is fascism."

Whatever happened to the concept of the conscientious objector?

Or has that concept vanished along with the concepts of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state into the quagmire of oppression in decadent America?

15 posted on 06/06/2014 4:22:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: kingattax

Yet Walmart suffered no repercussions from refusing to bake a birthday cake for a little boy named Adolph Hitler.

There is no basis to bully this man for refusing to bake a cake because of its theme.

I’m sure that the “couple” pretending to marry picked this bakery intentionally to make a scene. Getting “in your face” with their behavior in order to scream “discrimination!” is modus operandi for leftists.


16 posted on 06/06/2014 4:23:21 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: kingattax

But what of the gay bakers in Colorado? The customers bringing the allegations of discrimination have discriminated against the gay bakers by not using their services, right? Why not use a gay baker? Do they have something against gay bakers? Hmmm? Why did they choose a straight baker? Hmm?


17 posted on 06/06/2014 4:38:28 AM PDT by whatexit (What a shame that New England has become Old England)
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To: Savage Beast

Is it really possible that someone could go to jail for reufusing to bake a cake? That isn’t freedom.


18 posted on 06/06/2014 4:42:26 AM PDT by grania
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To: whatexit

Ah yes. The beautiful boycott directed against the fascists.


19 posted on 06/06/2014 4:44:05 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: grania
Is it really possible that someone could go to jail for refusing to bake a cake? That isn’t freedom.

We had freedom, but a drug-addled communist promised "CHANGE", and enough voters thought that sounded good to put the election within the margin of fraud.

20 posted on 06/06/2014 4:58:19 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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