Because of course they did.
The case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission will be heard before the Supreme Court.
When Phillips designs and creates a custom wedding cake for a specific couple and a specific wedding, he plays an active role in enabling that ritual, and he associates himself with the celebratory message conveyed,” Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall wrote in the brief.
Wall added, “Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a ceremony that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs invades his First Amendment rights.
With all due respect, Mr. Wall, dragging Phillips in front of the church and forcing him to shout hosannas over the marriage would be forcing him to violate his “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Saying that he has to treat a gay couple the same as any other customers who wander into his shop (and who, one assumes, are not grilled as to the righteousness of their lives) is not.
“I never thought the government would try to take away my freedoms and force me to create something that goes against my morals,” Phillips told Fox News on Thursday.
Mr Phillips, get over yourself. Baking a wedding cake for a gay couple (or a black couple, or a mixed race couple, or a Muslim couple, or …) is not a test of your morality. It’s part and parcel of being a baker.
DOJ files brief on behalf of baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple
The Justice Department on Thursday filed a brief on behalf of the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple on faith-based grounds, in the latest religious freedom case to be considered before the nation’s highest court.
