Posted on 09/07/2017 3:05:10 PM PDT by reaganaut1
In a surprise move, the Trump administration on Thursday sided with a Colorado bakery whose owner is arguing to the Supreme Court that he should not need to bake a cake for a same-sex couple when their ceremony violates his religious beliefs.
Colorado's public accommodation law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, and its courts have ruled that means businesses catering to the public cannot discriminate against same-sex couples seeking services for weddings or other commitment ceremonies.
Masterpiece Cakeshop, however, is run by Jack Phillips, a man who incorporates his Christian faith into the way he runs his business. Baking a cake, which he maintains is a form of creative expression, for a same-sex couple would violate his religious beliefs and, as such, he has refused to do so.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled against Phillips, as did Colorado courts, but the Supreme Court agreed this June to hear his case this fall.
On Thursday, in a filing at the high court, the Justice Department announced that it agrees with Masterpiece Cakeshop, arguing that it would create an "intrusion" on the First Amendment "where a public accommodations law compels someone to create expression for a particular person or entity and to participate, literally or figuratively, in a ceremony or other expressive event."
"Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a ceremony that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs invades his First Amendment rights," the Justice Department lawyers wrote.
In July 2012, Charlie Craig and David Mullins attempted to order a wedding cake from Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, but owner Jack Phillips declined, saying that it would violate his religious beliefs.
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Way to go, President Trump!
Agree with you that holding religious views is not bigotry. It’s the religious views that drive homosexuals crazy, though. The thought that God is condemning their behavior infuriates them. Otherwise, they’d go to a ‘gay-friendly’ bakery.
The left goes after a Christian bakery for not wanting to bake a cake for a same sex couple yet they have NO problem with a Muslim bakery doing the same thing..ask a liberal if they think a Muslim bakery should be forced to bake a game for a homo couple and watch them quickly change the subject
They should just get a Muslim owned bakery to make it.
I was just about to yell at you when I saw your moniker and knew you were being sarcastic, lol!!
Of course, Trump was going to side with the baker. Just because he touched a “gay flag” during the campaign means not a thing. It’s not his words, it’s his actions.
>>Question is, why would they want such an inferior cake, by their own accounting
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They don’t. It’s Christian persecution, readily engaged, to affirm their perversion.
Pelosi allowed him to dissent? Nice circus.
I admit that I did not go to the link, but I am trying to figure out why this is a “a surprise move”.
And therefore it is a suprise move because nothing government does these days makes any sense.
Well said.
Ditto.
Well said.
Ditto.
Colorado allows Muslim bakers to have the same policy of no homosexual weddings. It’s only Christians they hate with the white hot rage of social justice.
I agree.
It was a rhetorical question, and most of us know the answer.
Good call...
Add to this that nobody want a fruitcake.
Wow, 30 posts in and nobody said it yet? Ok, I will say it...WINNING!!!
Thanks for being very nice about my comment. You could have chosen sarcasm and cut me down, but chose a kinder path. I thank you, Doughty One. Blessings to You : )
Bol!
I try to use Jvanka, in a sarcastic, boogieman context, as often as possible. It defangs the term.
I’m delighted with Trump. Stopping the transgendered madness in the military was great.
Not entirely.
If you ever find yourself in a position where you have to hear them talking among themselves you will learn that Christians teaching and promoting chastity outside of marriage makes many of them furious.
Theirs is typically a lifestyle of moving from one sexual conquest to the next.
Thank you Kalamata.
I’m just glad I didn’t cut you down.
I do try. LOL
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