Posted on 08/21/2015 10:07:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Christian cake artist Jack Phillips, who recently was told by the Colorado Court of Appeals that he will not be allowed to refuse to make same-sex wedding cakes if he wants to keep running his business, has said that hundreds of gay people have told him they support his religious freedom rights to not make such cakes.
Phillips revealed in an interview with The Daily Signal that while he has been targeted with death threats by some members of the gay community for his stance against baking same-sex marriage cakes, hundreds of others have backed his position.
"The other day a guy from Daytona Beach called and left a message. He said he's gay and he wanted to offer his support, and gave me his phone number to call him back," Phillips said.
"So that's one, but there's dozens or hundreds of gays who say they think this is just not right [and is] politically motivated mostly. 'You have the right to turn us down and these people are making us all look like we're terrorists. … But we're not, we just want to live our lives.'"
The baker was found guilty of discrimination after he turned down a request for a wedding cake from a same-sex couple in a 2012 incident.
Because of that, Phillips' Masterpiece Cakeshop no longer makes wedding cakes of any kind, with the owner noting that he cannot violate his religious beliefs on the issue, which hold that marriage is between a man and a woman.
"The judge said that even though I welcomed them and told them I would sell them any other product, that because I turned down this one, I had violated the [anti-] discrimination law. And that I didn't sell it to them because they were homosexuals rather than because the event, participating in that, violated my faith," Phillips explained in his own words.
The baker said that typically his shop would make 200-250 wedding cakes per year, and now that they no longer make such items, have suffered roughly a 40 percent loss.
As for the 2012 incident in which the gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, stormed out after being told they will not get a wedding cake, Phillips revealed he received a death threat the following day.
"It was legitimate enough, or seemed legitimate enough, that I called the police. The guy kept calling and threatening me while the police were here, but we could never get a connection that the policeman could [make]," the baker continued.
Phillips also insisted that he is not a hateful person, despite what some may suggest.
"They don't even know me. You don't get into the birthday business and the party business if you're a hater, if you don't like people. I love people. They're all welcome to come in. There's just certain events, certain cakes that I don't make. That was one of them," he said.
A crowdfunding website has been set up for the baker, backing his religious freedom rights and asking supporters to chip in to reach a goal of $200,000 in donations.
You can support the Crowdfunding for Jack Phillips via this website:
https://www.continuetogive.com/4821919
Smart LGBT people would be wise to back this Christian baker up.
Once the government can order you around like this, you’re goose might be the next one with its neck on the block.
Of course, most people are not smart enough to see around the corner.
Like the “moderate Muslims”, if their voice is not loud, they will not be heard.
I work with a guy named Chris Baker, but in this case it seems to be a description rather the person’s name.
The one I know is a snake breeder.
The only hateful people here are the gaystapo trying to punish all those who will not kneel and pay homage to their perversion.
Not everyone who is gay is a Fascist or Constitutionally ignorant.
Number 1. this is phrased wrong, it should read like this:
turned down a request for a wedding cake from a queer couple in a 2012 incident.
Number 2. the queer couple should make their own cake in their own kitchen where they can cover each other in flour, sugar and butter....and then....(eeeewwwwww)
He may have backing, but if the hurt feelings of just one loving gay couple can be prevented from having their feelings hurt.... /S
I am acquainted with a gay guy who also backs up Christians in situations like this. He's one of the few gay guys I've know who is comfortable enough in his skin that he does not feel the need to be validated in his lifestyle. He is who he is, and is rather conservative in his politics, and opposes having the government force people to do anything.
It's the insecure self-loathing narcissists who are militant.
I would bake them a huge thank you cake.
I don’t even see this as religious freedom. I see this as a freedom of association issue. If some one finds an activity objectionable they should not be forced to actively participate in the activity. any artistic indever like decorating a cake or taking a pictures you are showing your approval by your very action. How would a Black baker feel if a some one came into there business and told them we want a wedding cake and are theme is racial purity because we met at a clan rally could you please put on top the cake these two figures in clan robs.
“Of course, most people are not smart enough to see around the corner.”
Rather than elevate my own smartness over most other people, I’d say they just don’t give a damn, which is probably true. I know I don’t.
Especially when there are ten times more people who hold the issue to be sinful than people who practice it.
Wait until the demand is made of a black baker (90% of whom vote against the same sex marriage in every case) or Muslim.
Mowing the astroturf?
It is a freedom of association issue. But we lost that right a long time ago.
Well the people who were hauled off to the gulags and concentration camps (not just Jews) didn’t much care either .. until it was themselves on the train.
That’s the way I see it also.
This issue is so much bigger than just gay marriage.
Rand Paul tried to point this out a few years ago and is still to this day hounded as being “against civil rights and a racist”. He tried to make the point that government should not be telling private individuals or businesses who they have to associate with and that the free market would take care of the rest and that this was a flaw in ONE PORTION the Civil Rights Act.
He was right then and now. If we cede too much power to the government they will not stop there. There is no upper limit to the power grab of the mob (using the government as their henchmen). This has been proven over and over again throughout history.
Most leftist/humanists hate Christians so much they wouldn’t care about the longterm implications of persecuting them.
Probably true ... and we’ve seen this in history.
But then the tables were turned on many of them and they ended up in the same place as the people they persecuted, or who they didn’t care to protest if they were persecuted.
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