Gay weddg ke lg reaffirms that bs n't discrimate (Opn) | CNN

Contents:

• IS IT CONSTUTNAL TO REFE TO SERVE CAKE TO GAYS? A PRIMER
• SUPREME COURT L BAKER N REFE TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• CUPKE ROYALE, DAN SAVAGE FORM GAY CUPKE ALLIANCE
• LEGALIZE GAY CUPK
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• CHUMBLE SPUZZ — LEGALIZE GAY CUPK! : LEGALIZE FROSTUTN,...
• LEGALIZE GAY T-SHIRTS & SHIRTS

IS IT CONSTUTNAL TO REFE TO SERVE CAKE TO GAYS? A PRIMER

Jack Phillips, the anti-gay owner of Colorado‘s Masterpiece Cakhop, is beg sued yet aga for his refal to bake a ke for a member of the LGBTQ muny. But this time isn’t a gay weddg ke he has refed to bake — ’s a ke celebratg someone’s genr transn.

SUPREME COURT L BAKER N REFE TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

This shouldn’t have been too surprisg seeg as Phillips’ bakery had been the news for refg to bake a same-sex weddg ke 2012 bee he felt vlated his relig beliefs agast homosexualy.

So the CCRC told Phillips to start bakg gay weddg k, re-tra his staff and provi proof that they were operatg acrdance wh state anti-discrimatn law. Texas Governor signs law to ‘save’ fast food cha bt known for antigay donatns.

This week, Gay Cake Civil Rights ma the news aga when a judge led that was illegal for Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop Denver, CO, to refe service to a gay uple lookg for a weddg ke.

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When asked if he would be prepared to go to jail orr to prott the orr to make a ke for a gay uple, Phillips replied that he would, “if that’s what tak.

This se, along wh other gay ke sndals throughout the untry, begs the qutn: is gay ke the segregated bg of our time? And more importantly, is refg to sell ke to a gay uple unnstutnal?

But What If Beg Forced to Make Gay Cake Vlat the Constutn? We certaly n’t speak for the Supreme Court, should the Gay Cake Cas ever make their way up to that level the appeals procs (OH BOY WE HOPE IT DOES), but here’s how the judge who led this se terpreted Ameri’s Greatt Document: the Constutn is not ol wh people who refe to make gay weddg ke, on two levels.

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Freedom of Speech: Phillips’s first argument claimed that beg “forced” — or, beg legally punished for refg to make a ke for a gay weddg — was a vlatn of his eedom of speech, bee makg a ke uld imply that he supported the ncept of gay marriage. But uld a betifully-ma ke change the world, much ls support gay marriage? In short, the baker would have been well wh his right to refe servg them if the gay uple had walked to the bakery and mand a ke vered rabows, S&M gear, Edh Wdsor photos, and a icg-piped msage that said “GAY MARRIAGE IS THE BEST AND JACK PHILLIPS SHOULD HAVE A DICK IN HIS MOUTH.

Freedom of Relign: It’s disputable that Phillips is ee to believe whatever the heck he wants, such as “gays should not marry” and “I thk my ke n talk”.

By refg to make a ke for a gay weddg, Phillips may have thought that he was eely exercisg his relign, but he laws of the state of Colorado and the great Amerin land lls that “discrimatn, ” and that’s super duper not okay acrdg to the Constutn:. The Supreme Court on Monday led 7-2 favor of a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple bee went agast his relig beliefs.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

“The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views, some stanc protected forms of exprsn, ” the majory opn stated.

The civil rights advocy group Campaign for Southern Equaly said the urt didn’t le that there is a right to discrimate, and the cisn don’t apply to bs other stat and don’t validate anti-discrimatn laws that protect gays. Two major Seattle forc, cupk and Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project, have llid to produce a gay pri cupke and a good e.

In honor of Gay Pri Month, Cupke Royale is offerg a rabow-becked cupke dubbed The the Baby Gay if you buy the mi versn. For every Gay sold this month, half the price ($2 for cupk and $1 for baby k) will be donated to the It Gets Better Project.

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The Gay is a classic vanilla wh rabow nfetti si. Savage, a popular syndited lumnist and edorial director at The Stranger, lnched the It Gets Better project last September as a rponse to a number of gay teen suicis.

Jody Hall's popular cupke cha, which has five lotns around Seattle and Bellevue, is a regular supporter of Seattle's pri events and regularly offers up cheeky shirts, displays wh slogans like "legalize gay cupk. " The fundraisg goal for this month of gay cupk: $5, 000.

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