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