RE: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Round 2
August 21, 2018 at 12:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2018 at 12:19 am by Angrboda.)
(August 20, 2018 at 7:05 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(August 20, 2018 at 6:33 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: If I recall correctly, he also objected to selling lesbians cupcakes. Jack Phillips is a very troubled man.
In the previous case, he told them that he would sell them other things. I hadn’t heard of this, perhaps you are mistaking it with something else.
Quote:Stephanie Schmalz and her partner, Jeanine, wanted to get some cupcakes to celebrate their commitment ceremony, the ACLU reports, and like several gay couples before them, they were refused. So Schmalz called up Phillips, telling him she was planning a wedding for her dog: "She told him that the dog wedding cake would need to feed 20 people and should be decorated with the names 'Roscoe' and 'Buffy,'" the ACLU writes. "Without hesitation, Phillips quoted her a price and asked how soon she needed it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...ns/314490/
You know, I'm pretty sure you have access to google in your country, too, Roadie. Although I must confess to not having visited Dumbfuckistan in several decades.
(August 20, 2018 at 6:50 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 20, 2018 at 6:20 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: He can choose not to make wedding cakes. He can choose not to make birthday cakes. He can't choose to discriminate against a protected class. In the state of Colorado, where he chose to do business, gays and Transgender are among the protected classes.
It really is that simple.
The State of Colorado is telling a guy who makes 48 cakes a year that they have a compelling state interest in deciding who he may or may not serve with bespoke products. This, after the Supreme Court has already ruled that the State of Colorado was targeting this small family-owned business out of malice for his religious beliefs. And now you all are going to tell me that, somehow the person being oppressed is the lawyer who went out of his way to set-up the baker for a second lawsuit. Please. Pick on someone your own size.
As noted previously, the reasons for the specific request and manner of delivery are not really relevant. But I suppose if you can't make an argument based on the merits, anything you can say to discredit the legal issues at stake here is to the good as far as you are concerned. Somehow, I don't recall you whining about when conservative Christians like William Jack pulled the same bullshit against LGBT friendly bakers. This is just more of your partisan whining and bullshit. You obviously haven't even bothered to apply any thinking to the matter but are simply reflexively parroting conservative talking points. And despite being corrected you continue to misrepresent the supreme court ruling in the matter. You're nothing but an ideological shill, Neo.