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One of the points I’ve heard made about the current SCOTUS wedding cake controversy was that this was no ordinary<\/i> cake that was being requested, just something “off the shelf,” but a Personal Creative Effort, something that represented some highly individual personal crafting that, if forced to be created, would be a compulsion counter to “Freedom of Speech,” and if vested in a personal religious sentiment, represents a profound violation of “Freedom of Religion.”<\/p>\n

But, as this article<\/a> notes, that’s a disingenuous argument. Any<\/i> trade can be vested with special, personal effort. The food that restaurant cooks is a personal effort. The decor of that hotel was hand-picked. Heck, even just baking a cake that’s going to get “normal” non-artistic decor can be said to be a labor of love. Any trade, any craft, any job can be said to be a personal, creative expression, a calling to labor well before the Lord (or whomever). “And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”<\/em> (Ps. 90:17)<\/p>\n

This is not to question whether such protestations of creativity and vocational fervor are legitimate, but only to suggest that using them as a basis for overriding public-accommodations protections under civil rights laws is an instant slippery slope — not just for LGBT folk, but for racial minorities, for woman, for religious minorities, for military veterans, for the handicapped, for anyone currently protected by civil rights laws.<\/p>\n

If you open your doors of your business to the public, then it is to the public. The religious expression, if any, is in the making, not in how the product is used by the customer. The creativity is in the crafting, not the virtue (known or unknown) of the person purchasing it. The blacksmith who crafted the nails used in the crucifixion was not condemned for it. Any other basis for legality returns us to the darkness of legal discrimination, under the guise of “religious liberty.”<\/p>\n

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One of the points I’ve heard made about the current SCOTUS wedding cake controversy was that this was no ordinary cake that was being requested, just something “off the shelf,” but a Personal Creative Effort, something that represented some highly individual personal crafting that, if forced to be created, would be a compulsion counter to … Continue reading “Cakes, wedding cakes, and special creative efforts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,350,25,718,378],"tags":[1200,139],"class_list":["post-134717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-civil-liberties","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","category-intolerance-persecution","tag-lgbtq","tag-marriageequality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wedding+cake+lesbians.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127506,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/cake-baker-is-still-guilty-of-unlawful-discrimination.html","url_meta":{"origin":134717,"position":0},"title":"Cake baker is (still) guilty of unlawful discrimination","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Aug-15 12:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"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.'The appeals court wrote that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act \"does not compel Masterpiece to support\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39990,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-nobody-expects-the-soviet-gay-inquisition-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":134717,"position":1},"title":"Bryan Fischer Is a Dolt (Nobody Expects the Soviet Gay Inquisition! edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Dec-13 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bryan Fischer Is a Dolt (Nobody Expects the Soviet Gay Inquisition! edition)Hey, Bryan! 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