How A Cakemaker Became An Enemy Of The State

The Federalist ^ | 9/6/16 | David Harsanyi

[marshmallow]

At the far end of a parking lot in an inconspicuous strip-mall in suburban Denver sits Masterpiece Cakeshop.

In the summer of 2012, two men enter the shop. One of them heads straight for the wedding cake displays, which sits in an area painted in muted colors and strewn with lace table cloths.

he employees tasked with handling the front of the shop are busy tending to consumers, so owner Jack Phillips, the kind of guy who’s more comfortable dealing with sugar paste than strangers, jumps in to help out.

We’d like you to design a cake for our wedding, the man explains, motioning to his partner at the other side of the shop.

Sorry, Phillips responds, I can’t create specialty cakes for gay weddings. If you’d like, I can sell you anything else you want — cupcakes, pastries, whatever.

Anger flushes over the would-be customer, who stands up, curses, and flips off Phillips while he heads for the door — a reaction that is well within the normal bounds of serious disagreements in American life.

The entire episode takes, maybe, 30 seconds.

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When Phillips declined to participate in celebrating the wedding of David Mullins and Charlie Craig that day, his life was upended in ways that people who argue passionately about the culture war on social media or political blogs might not fully appreciate.

But those 30 seconds were clarifying in many other ways. It showed us that most of the media are incapable (or unwilling) to lay out the debate over religious freedom in an honest or enlightening way. It’s shown us that many of those who praise the diversity of American life have, in reality, lost their compassion and the ability to tolerate anyone who disagrees with their worldview.

Those 30 seconds have shown us......

[TChad]

In other words, freedom of expression is contingent on a commission of unelected bureaucrats burrowing into the consciousness of those involved and ascertaining what they’re really thinking. A judge is then tasked with deciding what expression of faith is acceptable.

Welcome to America, 2016.

Public accommodations laws have been turned into tools of leftist-directed state oppression of disfavored groups. This is politically correct fascism.

[LegendHasIt]

The black Robed Judiciarchs telling me that I must bake a cake for any given individual would also turn me into an Enemy of the State too.

[Amendment10]

"The entire episode takes, maybe, 30 seconds."

Note that it takes less than 30 seconds to read Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Noting that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect LGBTQ “rights,” low-information state officials violated Section 1 imo, when they unthinkingly used constitutionally unprotected, politically correct LGBTQ “rights” to trump consitutionally enumerated rights, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech in this case.

So with all due respect to Mr. Phillips, I question if he had ever taken the brief time to read Section 1. Doing so would probably have spared him the hate crime harrassment that he got from Colorado state officials as a consequence of his 30 second encounter with low-information, pro-gay activist customers.

[Hambone 1934]

Someday,the rules libs use against decent people will be turned on them...

[cloudmountain]

I would have baked that cake for them...but would have added lots of FRUIT.
If they were from California I would also have added NUTS, with FLAKES in between.
:o)

[cloudmountain]

Most homosexuals were brought up as Christians. They KNOW that their behavior is against ALL tenets of Christianity (and Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, etc.). So, what they sometimes do is CHANGE their faith to accommodate their deviancy.

Catholics who divorce and remarry do the same thing. They abandon the faith of their fathers. They then become some Christian denomination that allows divorce and remarriage. I call it the "Henry VIII syndrome," that is, marry, divorce, remarry, divorce, remarry, etc.
The Church of England gave up Christ's way to accommodate the whims of a king.

Well, Henry VIII DID die and had to meet his Maker. It probably wasn't very pretty. The same goes for those homosexuals who chose to act out their deviant whims.

They need our prayers, NOT our vilification.

[DoodleDawg]

The Division found that the bakeries did not refuse the patron’s request because of his creed, but rather because of the offensive nature of the requested message. Importantly, there was no evidence that the bakeries based their decisions on the patron’s religion, and evidence had established that all three regularly created cakes with Christian themes.

So the erotic-themed bakery regularly created cakes with a Christian theme? I shudder to think what the evidence supporting that claim was.

[MileHi]

Compare and contrast:

http://glendalecherrycreek.com/2016/08/let-us-compare-contrast/

Muslims quit their jobs because they weren’t allowed to stop work for prayers, and CO Dept of Labor awards them all unemployment.