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A Supreme Court ruling for the gay couple in wedding cake case would set gay rights back
by Casey Given | Dec 7, 2017, 5:05 PM
Using the state to effectively hold a business owner at gunpoint is bullying, pure and simple. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a hotly debated case about free speech, religious liberty, and non-discrimination protections for LGBT citizens.
The facts of the case are all too familiar: a gay couple (David Mullins and Charlie Craig) walks into a cake shop (Masterpiece Cakeshop) to order their wedding dessert. The cake shop owner (Jack Phillips) refuses, explaining that it violates his religious beliefs. The gay couple turns to their state government (the Colorado Civil Rights Commission) to sue, citing anti-discrimination protections.
Contrary to the popular perception by the LGBT movement, I believe a victory for the Commission would be vastly detrimental to gay rights in the long-term.
READ MORE: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-supreme-court-ruling-for-the-gay-couple-in-wedding-cake-case-would-set-gay-rights-back/article/2642899
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The First Amendment right to sing, write, and the like also rebuts the notion that people who choose to make custom wedding cakes for some ceremonies may on that basis be required to do them for all others. Creating expressive is constitutionally different than non-expressive activity like delivering food, renting out ballrooms, or driving limousines. States thus cannot impose new burdens on speech-creators as a result of their having exercised First Amendment rights.
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