Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Round 2

[The Grand Nudger]

Who gets into baking to bake cakes?  The real draw is how you can stick it to the gay agenda!

[vorlon13]

Maybe the cake shop should have a trap door leading to a large vat of hungry alligators, and it would be tripped whenever someone walks in wearing mixed fabrics, or if they have shorn forelocks, or it they are female and menstruating* ?


*when did menstruation huts go out of fashion ??

[Pat Mustard]

Baker claims religious persecution again — this time after denying cake for transgender woman

Add another layer to the legal drama surrounding the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple — and took his case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., on Tuesday filed another federal lawsuit against the state alleging religious discrimination.

This time, the cake at the center of the controversy was not for a wedding. In June 2017, Colorado lawyer Autumn Scardina called Masterpiece Cakeshop to request a custom cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside.

The occasion, Scardina told the bakery’s employees, was to celebrate her birthday, as well as the seventh anniversary of the day she had come out as transgender.

Masterpiece Cakeshop ultimately refused Scardina’s order on religious grounds.

“Phillips declined to create the cake with the blue-and-pink design because it would have celebrated messages contrary to his religious belief that sex — the status of being male or female — is given by God, is biologically determined, is not determined by perceptions or feelings, and cannot be chosen or changed,” the complaint stated.

More than a year later, on June 28, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled that there was probable cause that Phillips had discriminated against Scardina on the basis of gender identity.

There's a thing in Irish law called an Isaac Wunder order. Methinks the baking crowd need one of those orders slapped on em.

[Silver]

*hugs the vorlon*

[vorlon13]

Found this, menstruation huts are still extant in other equally valid cultures !!!

Seems like some legislation to encourage their use would be very appropriate.

[Minimalist]

All he has to do is hang up a no coloreds sign and he'll have hit the trifecta, lol.

And our resident republicunt fascists will defend his "right" to do so!

[John V]

Unfortunate related case:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34620/she...=mattwalsh

A homeless shelter serving battered and sexually abused women in Anchorage, Alaska is being targeted by the state's equal rights commission for refusing to allow biological men into the shelter's shower and living facilities.

The nonprofit, Downtown Hope Center, has been under "investigation" for months after a homeless man named Timothy Coyle, who identifies as a female named Samantha Coyle, filed a complaint with the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission for alleged discrimination.

...
The complaint notes that an enforcement of such "anti-discrimination" policies would "force homeless women to sleep alongside and interact with men in intimate settings—even though those women may have just been beaten, raped, and sexually assaulted by a man the day before."

This shouldn't even need to be fought on religious grounds. It should just be common sense.

[Divinity]

I wonder how Christians would react if people stopped doing business with anyone wearing those gaudy cross necklaces.

[The Grand Nudger]

No abrahamics allowed.  Back of the bus, and drink out of your clearly marked nitwit fountains!

Howdy ma'am, we're from the sheriffs dept, is this abrahamic botherin you? Get on outta here boy you know this aint yer place!

[CapnAwesome]

I wonder if he bakes wedding cakes for people who are on their second marriage. After all, divorce is expressly forbidden in the NT, and any woman who remarries commits adultery, so says Jesus.

Why do I get the feeling he only takes a moral stand against the queers and weirdos?

I doubt that people ordering a cake for a second marriage bother to tell him that it's for a second marriage.

This person went out of the way to say it had to do with being transgender. They're trying to stir up shit.

I don't think the motive of the cake should matter at all. It's probably true that the customer who goes to that specific bakeshop is trying to stir shit up, but so is the bake shop.

Motive for having a cake should be irrelevant. I was split on this issue before, because I don't necessarily think you should be able to force goods and services from unwilling people, but what, do you need to fill out a correct form to get a cake? The motive of you ordering a cake shouldn't matter. I'm almost certain these people would deny Atheist weddings a cake. What else could be more against their religious beliefs? I grew up in a small town with a single baker, local monopolies like that exist everywhere and that means that whole groups of people will be denied access to certain goods or services. Do we need a seperate baker for each religion in each town? Seems ridiculous.