RE: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Round 2
August 20, 2018 at 9:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2018 at 9:50 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(August 20, 2018 at 9:28 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: No, the state of Colorado is telling everyone who runs a business open to the public that they don't get to discriminate against protected classes. The asshole baker is just too fucking stupid to figure that out. He insists on continuing in discriminatory practices and he's going to continue to get slapped down.
Completely not true. There was no discrimination based on protected class.
From the Statements of Fact of the filed complaint: HERE
“Colorado has announced the general rule that expressive business owners, including cake artists, do not violate the public-accommodation law if they decline to create a custom item expressing a message that they would not communicate for anyone. In the Masterpiece case, Colorado told the Supreme Court how this general rule applies to cake artists. Colorado said that it allows cake artists to decline to create custom cakes featuring pro-LGBT themes or symbols: “If [a cake artist] would not sell a … cake with a particular artistic theme,” such as a “cake featuring a symbol of gay pride,” “to any customer, regardless of that customer’s protected characteristics, he need not sell one to [anyone].” Colorado further explained that it allows cake artists to decline to create custom cakes with pro-LGBT designs and messages: “Under the Act, [a cake artist] is free … to decline to sell cakes with ‘pro-gay’ designs or inscriptions.” And Colorado announced that it allows cake artists to decline to create custom cakes that they consider offensive: “Businesses are entitled to reject orders … because they deem a particular product requested by a customer to be ‘offensive.’”
Philips has NOT denied service to anyone of a protected class because they are part of a protected class. That is a fact proven by his past practices. However, the baker declines, in general, to make bespoke products expressing messages he finds offensive or which violate his religious beliefs. The State of Colorado is violating its own express standards in order to harass one particular man at the prompting of an activist lawyer with a bogus request motivated by anti-Christian bigotry...the same type that is being clearly displayed here.
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