The Supreme Court announced Monday it will tackle a culture war powder keg – should a Christian baker who opposes gay marriage on religious grounds be forced to participate in a gay wedding?
In other words, do gay rights trump everyone else’s rights?
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The justices said they will consider a case involving Jack Phillips, the owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado. The issue: can the government coerce a person to create artistic expression that communicates a message with which he fundamentally disagrees?
“There are a number of artists across this nation who are being coerced into violating their religious convictions or having to choose between their right to create artistic expression that is consistent with their faith,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Kristen Waggoner told me. “This kind of government coercion is unconstitutional.”
This case worries me because of Roberts the TRAITOR and Kennedy. This is the result of Republican Presidents not doing their job, when it comes to nominating judges for the Supreme Court (except for Trump).
Roberts could say the fine and possible jail time for the cake decorator is really a tax. That way, the individual mandate for everyone to serve every demand of the homosexuals remains constitutional.
I guess the government does “own” a percentage of us and our labor through income taxes. Whether we use our backs or brains the government takes its share. As of now we have a choice as to how much we labor and earn. Can the government force us to labor against our will?
“probably a tax” …. Accurate and well said … Kudos baitfish
In a way yes they can Darby. Since if you fail to pay what you owe them (by what they deem) then you can be kicked out of your OWN HOUSE, or go to jail.. So in essence you CAN be forced to earn, just to pay what THEY feel you owe them..
Communist governments do, darby! They herd MILLIONS of their own citizens into “work camps” on trumped-up charges. Kinda like what the COMMUCRATS would like to do to the REST OF US, if they had the power. Which is why they’re always trying to get MORE POWER.
And, for that matter, when they take taxes from those who work and “redistribute” it to people who DON’T in order to buy votes, what is THAT but “forcing” us to work for them?
Who controls the free expression and artistic ability of an individual, the individual or the state? Simple question, lets hope they can get the right answer.
Unfortunately seeing they ruled in favor of gay marriage, ALL cause 2 who SHOULD have been forced to recuse themselves were NOT< and thus they were there to rule that way, i fear THOSE SAME 2 will help lean the court against the individual and in favor of the state…
“This kind of government coercion is unconstitutional.”
Which is like saying rape is okay as long as one uses the missionary position, but to do it anally is a bridge too far.
Once one compromises a principle, such as one is at perfect liberty as long as they do not harm another, then it is just a matter of taste because forcing another to your will to have your way with them, is still forcing another to your will to have your way with them whether it is baking them a cake or bending them over.
All this case does is show what a violation it was of our liberty with the Civil Rights Act of 1964
All US citizens should be referred to as Americans. End the discrimination for once and for all. No more black, white; gay, straight; male, female; Christian, Jew, Muslim, etc., etc.
Without dividing the populace into “victim classes” they can pander to, the Commucrats would have NO “BASE” at all! Divide, divide, and divide again–the better to CONQUER is their modus operandi.
This has become a nightmare. I as well as millions knew the moment the officially made it legal for gay marriage it was just the start of it getting out of control. It’s always “more” with the majority of gays. They are never happy with anything they want it all and unfortunately they most certainly enjoy throwing it in our faces constantly. Not all but the majority and guess what? WE DON’T CARE NOR WANT IT ANYMORE! You had your time now it’s time to get back to normal and WE THE PEOPLE aren’t going to go along to get along anymore. I don’t hate and hey what you do in private is your business but when you start to throw your “privacy” in my face then we are going to have problems. I don’t owe you my allegiance because you choose same sex partners. You want to go against nature then do it on your own time otherwise keep it in the closet.
And that’s what we kept saying all along, and now we have been proven right, the libtards don’t want to hear it!.. And to show just how insane this is.. GAYS during a pride parade can wal around with BUTTLESS chaps, showing their wares on full display to kids.. Wear shirts saying “Sorry honey, but i eat c0ck, or Sorry guys i munch muff”.. BUT in a recent parade that was celebrating womanhood, women were NOT allowed to walk around topless…
SO GAYS can show their wares for all to see, including kids, but women can’t?
True liberty means never being FORCED to do anything. It’s the most important natural right, the right to be left alone.
No, “gay” rights do NOT trump everybody ELSE’S rights! They have the same rights as everybody ELSE, which does NOT give them the right to FORCE other people to violate their religious beliefs, as that is denying others the BASIC right to worship in any way they see fit!
If a “gay” baker refused to bake a cake for a Muslim celebration, what would the lib-tards do? They’d be spinning like whirling dervishes, trying to figure out which “victim class” to pander to!
Why of course the Muslim would kill the gay Baker.
Excellent point, drillbeast! And the Commucrat propaganda hacks in the media would REFUSE to report that story–because no matter HOW they spun it, that one just wouldn’t fit into their Leftist “narrative!”
WE’ve seen libtards before take mudslimes over gays, so imo they wouldn’t be spining over which victim class to pander to.. THEY already know..
oletebag, what an interesting picture that forms of what the libtards would look like with their heads whirling. Quite an entertaining picture. I agree “gay” rights, “muslim” rights, and “Illegal Aliens” rights do not trump everybody ELSE’s rights!
And illegal aliens shouldn’t even HAVE any rights in the US..
This should be an easy decision for anyone that has common sense. No one has higher rights, especially a perverts rights, over another human. It is the same thing with the right to swing your arms about freely end when your fist reaches my nose.
SCOTUS should stand up for Mr. Phillips and his cake decorating shop. We should all have the right to say no to coercion by government, gay or any other types of force to do something that is against our beliefs. Our Supreme Court should stand up against all this liberalized indoctrination that is going on in the U.S.A.
i pray that the 1’st amendment trumps being a pervert
The red stripes on our flag stand for the blood THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SHED for the God given right of an individual.
I blame myself and my own generation for this…but there is still time for the children of the Great Generation.
Anybody interested in ordering a White Supremacist cake from a black owned enterprise.
Maybe with a pic of Obama in a banana tree.
But dat be rassist man, so they can say no to you for that..
American citizens have equal rights under the Constitution. One group doesn’t have more rights than another.