“ Jack Phillips Of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ordered To Pay Fine For Refusing Transgender Cake Order “


“ 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 violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a birthday cake for a transgender woman, a state judge has ruled.

In Tuesday’s ruling, Denver District Judge A. Bruce Jones said Autumn Scardina was denied a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside to celebrate her gender transition on her birthday because of her transgender status in violation of the law. While Jack Phillips said he could not make the cake because of its message, Jones said the case was about a refusal to sell a product, not compelled speech. “


[denver.cbslocal.com]

So a gay, etc owned bakery can be compelled to make a hate speech decorated cake?

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So a gay, etc owned bakery can be compelled to make a hate speech decorated cake?

Yeah? That's kinda how it works.

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Rolando
So a gay, etc owned bakery can be compelled to make a hate speech decorated cake?

Yeah? That's kinda how it works.

Not if the "hate speech" violates the law. I think that could be considered harrassment under Colorado law.
[law.justia.com]

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So a gay, etc owned bakery can be compelled to make a hate speech decorated cake?

Yeah? That's kinda how it works.

Not if the "hate speech" violates the law. I think that could be considered harrassment under Colorado law.
[law.justia.com]

Granted. I didn't mean break the law. But if someone orders a hate cake, let them make it. More speech is better than censorship. Even if I don't agree with the message.

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Rolando
So a gay, etc owned bakery can be compelled to make a hate speech decorated cake?

Sounds to me like that is not the issue. The guy refused to sell a birthday cake decorated with the colors blue and pink because it was to be used to celebrate a gender transition. I don't think there was any "speech" involved, just colors.

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"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan

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Rolando
So a gay, etc owned bakery can be compelled to make a hate speech decorated cake?

Yeah? That's kinda how it works.

Not if the "hate speech" violates the law. I think that could be considered harrassment under Colorado law.
[law.justia.com]

Granted. I didn't mean break the law. But if someone orders a hate cake, let them make it. More speech is better than censorship. Even if I don't agree with the message.

I respectfully disagree. People should not be forced to accept harassment based on their identity. That's why we have hate speech laws, like the one in Colorado.

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Rolando
So a gay, etc owned bakery can be compelled to make a hate speech decorated cake?

Sounds to me like that is not the issue. The guy refused to sell a birthday cake decorated with the colors blue and pink because it was to be used to celebrate a gender transition. I don't think there was any "speech" involved, just colors.

I think Rolando means that if this baker is compelled to serve a transgender customer, can a gay baker then be forced to serve an anti-gay customer who orders a cake with an offensive message on it.

I'm curious why the customer picked this rather infamous baker...was it to pick this fight? Not saying that's wrong, just curious.

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I respectfully disagree. People should not be forced to accept harassment based on their identity. That's why we have hate speech laws, like the one in Colorado.

We're barreling towards authoritarianism Too slippery a slope - I don't want people being told what they can and can't say. You take the bad with the good. Helps me know who to avoid better. Just as making has done.

Censorship is never the right answer, remember the origins of MRF and AppleSwitcher?

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Censorship is never the right answer, remember the origins of MRF and AppleSwitcher?

Hate speech isn't ok here either.

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Censorship is never the right answer, remember the origins of MRF and AppleSwitcher?

Hate speech isn't ok here either.

This ain't 'public'. Not illegal to have a private org that can discriminate(or not) however they please.

Legalities aside, I don’t understand why anyone would want to eat a cake baked by someone who hates you.

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Legalities aside, I don’t understand why anyone would want to eat a cake baked by someone who hates you.

Ingredients might prove interesting.

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...remember the origins of MRF and AppleSwitcher?

Heh, I'm regularly reminded of one of the worst actors on MRF.

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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

I think it's stupid and ignorant to refuse to bake cakes, but at the same time I feel as if a person should have a right to say that something makes them uncomfortable and they don't want to deal with it. What if someone went into a bakery and asked for a cake with a naked Playboy bunny fondling her own giant @#$%&? And the people in the bakery were like, wtf we don't want to make a cake like that. I think that people should be able to say, go somewhere else I am not a fan of this cake idea.

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I think it's stupid and ignorant to refuse to bake cakes, but at the same time I feel as if a person should have a right to say that something makes them uncomfortable and they don't want to deal with it. What if someone went into a bakery and asked for a cake with a naked Playboy bunny fondling her own giant @#$%&? And the people in the bakery were like, wtf we don't want to make a cake like that. I think that people should be able to say, go somewhere else I am not a fan of this cake idea.

We have Patrick Stewart for that

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I think it's stupid and ignorant to refuse to bake cakes, but at the same time I feel as if a person should have a right to say that something makes them uncomfortable and they don't want to deal with it. What if someone went into a bakery and asked for a cake with a naked Playboy bunny fondling her own giant @#$%&? And the people in the bakery were like, wtf we don't want to make a cake like that. I think that people should be able to say, go somewhere else I am not a fan of this cake idea.

Playboy bunnies are not a protected class.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

This just seems like cake-baiting.

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Hurts like a bastid...

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This just seems like cake-baiting.

Need a multi-billion federal government grant to design & build an automatic cake-baking machine that will decorate the cake per the 3D CAD design inputted.

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$tevie
I think it's stupid and ignorant to refuse to bake cakes, but at the same time I feel as if a person should have a right to say that something makes them uncomfortable and they don't want to deal with it. What if someone went into a bakery and asked for a cake with a naked Playboy bunny fondling her own giant @#$%&? And the people in the bakery were like, wtf we don't want to make a cake like that. I think that people should be able to say, go somewhere else I am not a fan of this cake idea.

Playboy bunnies are not a protected class.

I understand that, but my point is that if something makes you uncomfortable then you shouldn't have to do it. I think that would be a really basic freedom. I can think of tons of things that I wouldn't want to have to do just because the person requesting it is in a protected class.

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“Defendants admit that they were willing to make the requested cake until Ms. Scardina identified that she chose the colors to reflect and celebrate her identity as a transgender female,” judge A. Bruce Jones wrote in his ruling. “Defendants are, however, willing to make cakes for non-transgender individuals that reflect that person’s gender. And Defendants would 'gladly' make an identical-looking cake for other customers.”


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