Posted on 03/15/2019 11:42:01 AM PDT by fwdude
(RNS) — Last week, to little notice, the Masterpiece Cakeshop case ended with a whimper. Nine months after the Supreme Court found that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had acted prejudicially in upholding the complaint of a gay couple who were refused a wedding cake by baker Jack Phillips, the two sides agreed to stop fighting.
Specifically, the commission withdrew its proceedings against Phillips for discrimination and Phillips withdrew his case against the commission for harassment. Which is to say that Phillips can keep refusing to customize cakes that, as he put it, “celebrate events or express messages that conflict with my religious beliefs.”
As you’ll recall, the justices didn’t decide that Phillips has the right to say no. Writing for a 7-2 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy declared that while “the religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are protected views and in some instances protected forms of expression,” nevertheless “such objections do not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law.”
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Let’s not forget (it has easily been forgotten in the past) that this was about decorating a cake so as to dedicate it to a specific event. Masterpiece would have sold a blank cake, or sold a generic wedding cake with no names. It said no when it came to decorating the cake so as to dedicate it to the “gay marriage.”
The best way to combat this is by recovering social standards of purity, and the best way to do that is by coming back to God. Meeting God in a church is a good first step, but will you invite God to come back home with you?
They actually do want to be worshiped.
"Meh," is what they have now.
They want to force you to worship them, in fact.
It’s part of the meanness dynamic of the devil.
I just visited Masterpiece Cakeshop’s website and was dismayed to see this notice on the wedding cake page:
“Masterpiece Cakeshop is not currently accepting requests to create custom wedding cakes. Please check back in the future.”
I seems that he is still being pressured by the state “snivel rights” commission to some degree.
Wrong case.
Come to think of it I’ve never seen a Mohomed’s BBQ before.
The bakery will need to be careful with this. If someone comes in pleading to have their cake decorated for Christian reasons, then find out later they were a plant, it could get real ugly. They’ll need to hold fast to not decorating anyone’s cake, if that’s the policy.
Then the sodomites win. Phillips lost 40% of his business by not making wedding cakes. He had to lay off people. I'll be that makes the sodomites happy.
His attorneys were fools for accepting the CO commission's agreement not to prosecute. He should have still pushed this to the Supreme Court.
Win?
How much money did he spend on lawyers?
If the victory cost him his business and assets, they beat him
Correction:
They should not be forced to bake cakes with a pro-homoerotic message.
If businesses are allowed to discriminate solely based on identity, then that will solely be used against Christians, and conservatives, and Caucasians.
Look at the Big Tech unilateral targeting of same.
Yep.
WE normies lost.
If "The Commission" wasn't disbanded, then all they will do is continue to harass Christian businesses.
That is ALL the court case said.
"The Commission" was just following orders.
So they can go on their merry way, waiting for another political viewpoint that they don't like.
Too bad, so sad for anyone who doesn't agree with "The Commission".
Oh, you *might* win this round, but you'll be bankrupt and ruined eventually.
HalleluYah!
pfl
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