Posted on 08/13/2015 1:12:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A state appeals court in Colorado ruled Thursday that a baker could not cite religious beliefs in refusing to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples.
The decision is the latest in a series of similar rulings across the country that have been cheered by civil rights groups but attacked by conservative Christians as assaults on religious liberty.
Whether photographers, florists, bakers and other vendors who are Christians should have a right to refuse services for same-sex marriages has emerged as a major cultural and legal battle, one that has intensified since the Supreme Court decision in June establishing same-sex marriage as a constitutional right.
In the Colorado case, the court squarely said that this is discrimination based on sexual orientation and its not to be tolerated, even if its motivated by faith, said Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the gay couple. Religious liberty gives you the right to your beliefs but not the right to harm others.
But lawyers for the cake shop said the appeals panel got it wrong and that they would probably appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court.
Our client did not engage in sexual-orientation discrimination, said Jeremy Tedesco, a senior lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group based in Arizona. He argued that an objection to same-sex marriage was not the same as discriminating against a gay person and noted that the baker, Jack Phillips, of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., also refused to make cakes celebrating Halloween because he associates the holiday with Satan.
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Someone please tell me how NOT having a cake baked by this particular baker is harmful?
And tell me when the gaystapo are going to start doing stings at Muslim owned businesses. I have a lot of popcorn for that one.
Even D Trump can’t change this
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Dont tell him that. He’ll post a nasty tweet.
Trevor: "Yes. Oh it looks gorgeous! Doesn't it look gorgeous, hon?"
Jason: "My, my it is beautiful, you did an awesome job."
Cake Baker in Colorado: "Okay, here is the tab. Hope you have a nice event."
Couple leaves and the camera takes a peek into a lone trash container where there lies an empty box of Ex-Lax.
Freedom of association is dead and getting deader by the year.
This is all nonsense, the libertarians here at FR assured me that homosexual marriage would have no effect on anybody else’s life.
Didn’t Justice Kennedy say this kind of thing wouldn’t happen?
It’s almost like it’s time to leave the Late Great United States. its becoming too hostile to live and work here.
I also think an Andrew Dice Clay routine on Homosexuals may be warranted here!
#gaycakessplatter
2 eggs, 1 tbsp oil, 1/2 Cup Holy Water
Sadly, you’re right. The political process is rigged — a collusion between anti-Christian progressives and big business.
And whenever we overcome long odds and win via the political process, the next wave of leftists comes in to reverse the result. The judges.
Tails they win, heads we lose.
Don’t hold your breath...their view on homosexual marriage is “evolving”...
Just throw them off your property and when they go to court just say it was because they were being a$$holes and you don’t want to do business with them
ALL WATER USED IN OUR ESTABLISHMENT IS HOLY WATER
I've been surprised NO ONE even tries to engauge me in conversation about the statement
Or keep it to those who are Christians what you have posted.
Great idea!
Aren’t there laws on the books about bullying? If so, use them against the queers. They are the bullies. Turn the tables on them.
that’s about what you have to do- a business has the right to refuse anyone for causing disruptions- throw them off the property AND sue them in court for causing a loss of business for their disruptive behavior
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