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Title: Colorado baker must make cakes for gay weddings, panel rules
Source:
NY Daily News
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty ... -panel-rules-article-1.1811676
Published: May 31, 2014
Author: AP
Post Date: 2014-05-31 17:52:03 by scrapper2
Keywords: 1st amendment rights MIA in Co, re-education camps for busines, ObamaNation
Views: 171
Comments: 9
Colorado's Civil Rights Commission on Friday ordered a baker to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, finding his religious objections to the practice did not trump the state's anti-discrimination statutes. The unanimous ruling from the seven-member commission upheld an administrative law judge's finding in December that Jack Phillips violated civil rights law when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple in 2012. The couple sued. "I can believe anything I want, but if I'm going to do business here, I'd ought to not discriminate against people," Commissioner Raju Jaram said. Phillips, a devout Christian who owns the Masterpiece Cakeshop in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, said the decision violates his First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of his religion. "I will stand by my convictions until somebody shuts me down," he told reporters after the ruling. He added his bakery has been so overwhelmed by supporters eager to buy cookies and brownies that he does not currently make wedding cakes. The couple who sued Phillips, Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, were pleased that the commission roundly rejected Phillips' arguments. "We're just thrilled by that," Mullins said. Gay marriage remains illegal in Colorado. Mullins and Craig were married in Massachusetts and wanted a wedding cake for a reception to celebrate their union back home in Westminster, another Denver suburb. State law prohibits businesses from refusing to serve customers based on their sexual orientation. The panel issued its ruling verbally. It ordered Phillips to stop discriminating against gay people and to report quarterly for two years on staff anti-discrimination training and any customers he refuses to serve. Phillips' attorney said she was considering appealing the ruling to the Colorado Court of Appeals. Poster Comment: "He added his bakery has been so overwhelmed by supporters eager to buy cookies and brownies that he does not currently make wedding cakes." Nice!!!! "Gay marriage remains illegal in Colorado."
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#1. To: scrapper2 (#0)
Their "order" doesn't amount to much. All people have to do is ignore such nonsense and "Civil Rights" commissions will be rendered toothless. Colorado's Civil Rights Commission on Friday ordered a baker to make wedding cakes
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15, scrap, 4 (#1)
I'm confident that they'll sell a cookie to a fag, no problem; but to bake a custom wedding cake, they should just require a valid state of CO marriage license. Problem solved for everyone.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#3. To: Lod (#2)
"Oh, yes, our current wedding cakes start at $10,000....cash in advance" :)
-Alex Kurtagic
#4. To: X-15 (#3)
Price it with a lisp...great idea.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#5. To: scrapper2 (#0)
The best thing to do would be to ignore the unconstitutional "order" and the next best thing to do would to make the cake and make the filling out of Ex-Lax.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
#6. To: James Deffenbach (#5)
As mentioned before, would you really want to eat a cake baked by someone who was forced to make it for you? What could possibly go wrong with this?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#7. To: Lod (#6)
Certainly not. If I went into a bakery and they refused to make a cake for me or sell me one they already had I would just walk out and not make a big deal of it. But then I believe businesses have the right to serve whoever they choose and I also believe in freedom of association. As mentioned before, would you really want to eat a cake baked by someone who was forced to make it for you?
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
#8. To: James Deffenbach (#5)
cum. make the filling out of
#9. To: Lod (#6)
Exactly. Like forcing a photographer to take photos at a wedding he disapproves of. No limit to the number of problems that could inadvertently creep in when taking pictures. As mentioned before, would you really want to eat a cake baked by someone who was forced to make it for you?
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