{"id":127506,"date":"2015-08-14T00:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T06:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/cake-baker-is-still-guilty-of-unlawful-discrimination.html"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T23:35:59","slug":"cake-baker-is-still-guilty-of-unlawful-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/cake-baker-is-still-guilty-of-unlawful-discrimination.html","title":{"rendered":"Cake baker is (still) guilty of unlawful discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld (again) the ruling that a Lakewood baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple wanting to celebrate their (Massachussetts) wedding is guilty of discrimination under Colorado law.<\/p>\n

'The appeals court wrote that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act "does not compel Masterpiece to support or endorse any particular religious views. The law merely prohibits Masterpiece from discriminating against potential customers on account of their sexual orientation."<\/i><\/p>\n

Making a cake for a same-sex couple does not force the cake shop to convey a message supporting marriages between same-sex couples. But the law does prohibit the bakery from "picking and choosing its customers based on their sexual orientation."'<\/i><\/p>\n

Yes. This. <\/p>\n

Religious disapproval of something doesn't trump the law. "Free exercise of religion" doesn't mean being able to play the God card to avoid doing anything you don't like. Whether it's paying taxes that go to things you don't approve of, to hiring someone whose race your creed thinks you shouldn't be mixing with, to baking a cake for someone whose marital practices you don't think are morally correct — the right of religious objection is not absolute. If it were, would there be any legal barrier to human sacrifice, or smiting the heathen, or all the religious savagery of Europe that the Founders sought so diligently to avoid?<\/p>\n

If Mr Phillips cannot bring himself to bake cakes for gay individuals — or blacks, or Jews, or veterans, or people in wheelchairs, or women — for reasons he considers religious, perhaps he should consider a change in business. That's not nice, or easy, but nobody ever said having the courage of your convictions was either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAppeals Court: Lakewood baker discriminated against same-sex couple<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a Lakewood baker cannot cite his religious beliefs or free-speech rights in refusing to make a wedding cake for\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld (again) the ruling that a Lakewood baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple wanting to celebrate their (Massachussetts) wedding is guilty of discrimination under Colorado law. 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