Jack Phillips sells a lot of cakes. But one cake he refused to sell has brought the tolerance thugs to his door, pitchforks and torches at the ready.
LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – …The owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood refused to bake a wedding cake for a local gay couple and now people are pushing a boycott against the owner.
Shop owner Jack Phillips probably didn’t think he was going to be wading into a civil rights debate a week ago when he told the gay couple that he would not make a cake for their wedding, but that’s exactly what has happened.
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“If gays come in and want to order birthday cakes or any cakes for any occasion, graduations, or whatever, I have no prejudice against that whatsoever,” Phillips said. “It’s just the wedding cake, not the people, not their lifestyle.”
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Some customers said they are now ordering cakes at the shop specifically because of the stance against gay marriage.“We would close down that bakery before we closed our beliefs, so that may be what it comes to … we’ll see,” Phillips said.
So far, this case is different from Chick-Fil-A as these are protests and choices of consumers to either buy or not to buy from Mr. Phillips and the government is not trying to impose any sanctions. But this is a growing problem. More and more we will see these types of protests and more and more we will see sympathetic pols use the power of government to cajole and sanction those businesses that refuse to bend over for the gay agenda.
For my part, I will be in Lakewood in a few weeks and I will make sure I stop by the shop, order some goodies, and thank him for making a stand.
August 1, 2012 at 1:35 am
gay, I've read books by people like Engels, Lively, and Abrams that tell about the various unlovely nicknames you poor folks give yourselves. What can I say except you and your fellow perverts must know enough about yourselves to give each other those colorful, nasty nicknames.
August 2, 2012 at 1:20 am
I can see the point that making, specifically, a "wedding cake" for a gay marriage is participating in the false idea that what is happening is a marriage. I could also see it if another Catholic or Christian baker decided that this is not too much of a participation. What does seem important to me is for this baker to have the right to act according to his conscience. But since homosexuals have been declared to be a "class" of people, I think the equal accommodation laws will be found to apply to this situation, just as they were found to apply to wedding photographers.
Back when they were passing the civil rights laws there were those who objected, not because they hated or had any particular onus against Negroes, but because they felt that these laws limited the freedom of association. (For instance, the very impressive Sam Erwin whom some may remember from the Watergate hearings.) They thought that a man ought to be free to do business with whomsoever he chose, and not to do business with whomsoever he chose. A justifiable repugnance for racism overcame this intrinsically reasonable hesitation. With generally good effect in the situation for which the law was written. But now we see those unintended consequences foreseen by those who opposed the law.
Susan Peterson