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October 26, 2017 04:37 PM UTC

Rally set for baker who discriminated against gay couple

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

A rally for Jack Phillips, the baker who refused to sell a cake to a gay couple, is set for Wed., Nov. 8, at Colorado Christian University’s Event Center.

The rally, sponsored by the ultra conservative Colorado Christian University and the Alliance Defending Freedom, comes as Colorado’s Republican Attorney, General Cynthia Coffman, took a stand against Phillips Wednesday, arguing in a legal brief that he violated Colorado’s public accommodations law by refusing to serve the gay couple who ordered a wedding cake.

Phillips case is scheduled to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in December.

Coffman’s predecessor, John Suthers, also a Republican, took a similar position on the case as Coffman, telling a conservative radio host two years ago that Colorado’s law didn’t violate the First Amendment because “baking cakes is not the exercise of religion.” Suthers wants lawmakers to repeal the public accommodations law, but until that happens, it doesn’t restrict Phillips’ constitutional rights, he said on air.

Baking: Where Art and Religion Merge?

But Jeff Hunt, Director of Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute, and others who support Phillips, are arguing that the baker’s cakes are his form of artistic expression, tied to his expression of religion, and so his cake baking is protected by the First Amendment.

Hunt even calls Phillips a “cake artist.”

When Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips opened his cakeshop 24 years ago, he wanted to do more than just provide for his family and his employees,” Hunt stated in an email Thursday. “He wanted to serve his community, share his artistic talents, and honor God through his work every day.

The government should not force anyone to create art that conflicts with their conscience. Yet that is exactly what the government did to Jack. And if the government has the power to tell you what to believe on the subject of marriage, it has that same power over all issues.

That’s un-American. And terrifying.

Daniel Ramos, director of the LGBT advocacy organization One Colorado, applauded Coffman in a news release Wednesday for defending Colorado’s non-discrimination laws.

“Attorney General Coffman is doing the right thing by standing alongside Coloradans, enforcing Colorado’s nondiscrimination law, and filing this brief that sets the record straight about our values of equal treatment,” said Ramos. “It is the role of our elected officials to ensure that no one faces discrimination of any kind – and that includes not legally permitting any business to refuse service to a Coloradan because of who they are.

“Nondiscrimination is not a Democratic or Republican value — it’s about freedom and opportunity for all and the right of all families to work hard and care for themselves.”

Colorado’s public accommodations law prohibits businesses that serve the public from discriminating based on race, gender, and sexual preference.

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11 thoughts on “Rally set for baker who discriminated against gay couple”

  1. Anyone who shows up to this rally in support of Phillips shows that they are unable to follow simple instructions. In fact I'll be surprised if they show up at right place at the right time. If the law says businesses cannot discriminate based on race, gender or sexual preference then it's pretty fucking clear what you can and cannot do.

    What was the design of the cake that started this controversy anyway? I'm guessing it was a normal pretty-colors-with-fondant kind of wedding cake. If the wedding cake was supposed to have "Real men suck dicks!" all over it or something like that, I could see having real objections to it. Otherwise, you're just being an asshole and using your religion as an excuse.

  2. There’s a great deal of underreported governmental interference and persecution against those of us who are true speeding artists . . . 

    . . . taking our inspiration from the scriptural commandment in Zephaniah 1:14. 

    The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD:

    How long before CCU holds a rally for us, against the ongoing traffic tickets issued by police and highway patrolmen bent on stifling our free religious expression?!?

  3. Not many politicians are calling for the repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But here's what Suthers said a few years ago:

    I think what’s different, Jimmy, and 1964 and the time of the Civil Rights cases is, if a black person when into a restaurant in the South in 1963 and was refused service, he couldn’t walk into a restaurant next door and get service, for the most part.  Everybody was refused service. That’s not the atmosphere we have today. We have this guy, who as a matter of his religious beliefs, would prefer not to do that. We have plenty of guys down the street who are perfectly willing to do it.

    And he's considered mainstream?

    1. In the context of the modern (and I use that term loosely) GOP, Suthers is mainstream…..

      We have a Republican VP who wants to hang gays. At least if you believe what Donald Trump says about him.

       

      1. Whether he wants to actually hang gays or not, he's against their right to get a civil marriage. He's against contraceptives for unmarried women. The man's a trogolodyte who doesn't trust himself to meet with a woman without a chaperone.

  4. I wonder if John Andrews (is he still the chancellor CCU?) is going to invite Fred Phelps' grandchildren to this event so they could take the stage to denounce sodomites…….

    1. s/b . . . “misedumacatin’ the nutlids” . . .

      . . . OTOH when time-travel to the past is finally perfected, CCU graduates will be prepared and ready to lead the charge retreat!!!

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