Posted on 06/04/2014 7:23:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Leave the state. Go somewhere without re-education camps
What’s next, concentration camps?
That means you have to close down or sell your business... sell your house, uproot your life...
Not as easy as it sounds but it can be done. It really depends on whether this baker values freedom of religion like the Pilgrims of old.
But here’s a question — what if this case becomes a precedent and Obama packs his courts that will one day FEDERALIZE what happened in Colorado?
What next?
If I were him, I would agree to bake the cake and include 2 cups of ground black pepper to the ingredients...see if the judge forces making a “good” cake.
I would complete my morning business paperwork with it and send it back to sender.
Have the Khmer Rouge taken over Colorado?
RE: Have the Khmer Rouge taken over Colorado?
Something like that. And New Mexico as well. And then, coming soon to your state and then the entire country.
These Human Rights Commissions are just the Progressive’s Inquisition. The Civil Rights Movement really harmed liberty when they forced people to like other people no matter what. What’s happened to freedom of thought?
Orwell’s 1984
Then some enforcers of this ‘re-education’ get up close and personal with the 2nd Amendment
He ought to leave the state, after selling the business to a baker who just “happens” to be Muslim! ;)
I’m sorry, I refuse to perform any of these actions under the rights given to me by the constitution. I refuse to perform actions without compensation, I refuse to surrender my freedom of association, I refuse to surrender my right of religious belief and expression. I refuse to follow any gag order as it restricts my freedom of speech. I make marriage cakes for weddings. A marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and my artistry is not subject to the public accommodations act.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the Constitution guarantee freedom of association?
No one should have to explain themselves for refusing to associate with anyone.
Many stores post signs saying something along the lines of, “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
I hope this baker continues to fight this; it is a dangerous infringement of free speech rights.
RE: Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the Constitution guarantee freedom of association?
Well here’s the problem... the courts have made a comparison between not wanting to serve a gay couple because of religious and moral beliefs to not wanting to serve a black man.
You will begin to notice a pattern... when a Christian businessman refuses to help celebrate a lifestyle he considers sinful, it becomes akin to racism.
THAT is the reasoning put forth by the liberal courts.
What would happen if the baker had ignored the commission’s requests ?
What law enforcement powers does the commission have?
What other cases have this commission been involved in?
And what was the outcome?
Did any other people (than this baker) enjoined by the commission ignore the commission?
What happened with those other cases ?
RE: Many stores post signs saying something along the lines of, “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
What if anyone includes black people? Should the law step in?
RE: What would happen if the baker had ignored the commission’s requests ?
What law enforcement powers does the commission have?
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I would think a fine, and if they refuse to pay it, jail time.
EDIT TO ADD.... a courageous Christian would probably go to jail the same way Peter and Paul did for preaching the gospel.
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