Colorado Court Rules Against Baker Who Refused to Serve Same-Sex Couples

[jpak]

Source: New York Times

A state appeals court in Colorado ruled Thursday that a baker could not cite religious beliefs in refusing to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples.

The decision is the latest in a series of similar rulings across the country that have been cheered by civil rights groups but attacked by conservative Christians as assaults on religious liberty.

Whether photographers, florists, bakers and other vendors who are Christians should have a right to refuse services for same-sex marriages has emerged as a major cultural and legal battle, one that has intensified since the Supreme Court decision in June establishing same-sex marriage as a constitutional right.


In the Colorado case, “the court squarely said that this is discrimination based on sexual orientation and it’s not to be tolerated, even if it’s motivated by faith,” said Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the gay couple. “Religious liberty gives you the right to your beliefs but not the right to harm others.”

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[Gothmog]

1. Good-This idiot does not have the right to discriminate

[Xipe Totec]

2. Colorado Court Rules "Let Them Eat Cake!" nt

[HassleCat]

3. Here come the false analogies.

"They'll force Jewish delis to serve bacon." "They'll force my church to perform gay weddings." No, they will not. Any more than they will force Republicans to think.

[sulphurdunn]

14. If a Jewish deli

served bacon to Gentiles but refused to serve it to Jews, there would be a problem. If churches charged a fee for weddings on tax exempt property and excluded gays, there would be a problem. If Republicans could think, there would be no problem.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Remember when people railed about "mixed marriage"?

I'm old enough to remember when that included Catholic and Protestant.

[rurallib]

7. that opens up some long forgotten memories

I had one of those and both sets of parents worked on us until we finally split. Then they couldn't understand why.

didn't mean a dig at you at all. I had pretty much forgotten all about the constant picking etc.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. I knew someone who's mother disapproved of his girl because she wasn't Greek.

[A Simple Game]

16. Me too. But at least the Catholics and Protestants one was mutual to both sides.

Well I'm not sure, probably not all Protestant sects but many.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. I attended a wedding once where the grandmother decided to have a "spell"....

It was a white bride and a Latino groom.

My talking "paramedic" caused mass panic that her faking it would be exposed.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Guess what folks?

The money in a gay person's hand is green and spends just as well as the money in a straight person's hand.
I know this for a fact.

[sulphurdunn]

15. If some folks

had their way, gay people would be required to use rainbow colored money, and it would be discounted.

[OnlinePoker]

20. Go Canada

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/17/canada-gay-money-currency_n_4982548.html

[Live and Learn]

6. Good! nt

[sadoldgirl]

9. Good, though I bet that there will be an appeal.

As I see it if you are open to the public as a store,
you cannot choose customers, but you can choose
what you want to sell.

[cosmicone]

10. One's personal biases should never affect one's profession or vocation

I despise terrorists ... but if one came in my ER wounded or sick, I'd do everything possible to save the mofo's life and make him/her comfortable. The person's terrorism is for other people so empowered to deal with - not my job.

[Volaris]

11. Good. I'm tired of these fuckers equating their business with their Faith.

If its a for-profit business, then you'll take the profit from whoever walks through the door.
If there are things more IMPORTANT than profit (not likely if your a Republican) then every thin dime u make had better be given away to charity, because you're a Not For Profit Organization.
If you think you should be able to have your cake and it too, then the rest of us can TAX YOUR CHURCH.

BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE AN INFRIGEMTNT OF YOUR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, YOU FUCKHEADS!!!

[RancidCrabtree]

12. The Claim of Religious Liberty

or Religous Freedom is nothing more than the new race card.

[Purveyor]

13. They may be required to make the cake but would one really

want to eat it? I wouldn't for the same reason I never send anything back at a restaurant.

[riversedge]

17. great news.

[Lee-Lee]

18. Excellent!

Although I would be ok with an exemption for a business as long as they were required to post some sort of "I am a bigot who refuses to serve xxx" sign up- so I know where to never spend my money.