(Headline USA) A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple went on trial Monday in yet another lawsuit, this one involving a birthday cake for a transgender woman.
Autumn Scardina attempted to order the birthday cake on the same day in 2017 that the high court announced it would hear baker Jack Phillips’ appeal in the wedding cake case.
Scardina, an attorney, requested a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside in honor of her gender transition.
Scardina’s lawsuit is the latest in a series of cases around the U.S. that pit the rights of LGBTQ people against merchants’ religious objections, an issue that remains unsettled by the nation’s top court.
On Monday, during a virtual trial being conducted by a state judge in Denver, Scardina said Phillips had maintained that, as a Christian, he opposed making the gay couple’s wedding cake because it involved a religious ceremony but would sell any other type of product.
She said she called Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop to place the order after hearing about the court’s announcement because she wanted to find out if he really meant it.
When her lawyer Paula Greisen asked whether the call was a “setup,” she said it was not.
“It was more of calling someone’s bluff,” she said.
In opening arguments, a lawyer representing Phillips, Sean Gates, said his refusal to make Scardina’s cake was about its message, not discriminating against Scardina, echoing assertions made in Phillips’ legal battle over his refusal to make a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins in 2012. more here
Back in more civilized days this would be a simple matter of property rights. The owner of the shop owns his shop, it is his property, and he can do business or not do business with whom he chooses.
Ever since they threw out property rights for collectivist progressivism people have to tie themselves into legal pretzel logic to frame simple property right issues into free speech rights.
I wish someone would try something like this with a Muslim baker, just to see how it goes when it’s not against a Christian.
Why not just take it’s business down the street. It’s Colorado. The state is full of degenerates.
So a woman in Texas gets thrown to the ground and arrested for trespassing because the business requires a mask when the state does not; because a business can choose to set its’ own rules.
So if a business can choose to set its’ own rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Oh, that’s right, the only time the law applies is when the left can use it to hit the right over the head with it.
How were the Imperial Japanese and the German Nazis stopped 75 years ago? Do we really believe that appeasement and suicidal “tolerance” is going to even slow the current crop of would be totalitarians?
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