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   From: ban.all.faggots@barackobama.com   
      
   DENVER (CBS4) – The Colorado Court of Appeals has sided with a   
   gay couple in the fight over a wedding cake saying a baker   
   cannot cite religious beliefs in refusing service.   
      
   Lakewood baker Jack Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop,   
   refused to make a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David   
   Mullins in 2012 saying it was against his religious beliefs. The   
   couple married in Massachusetts but planned to celebrate in   
   Colorado.   
      
   Craig and Mullins then sued Phillips and the court found that he   
   violated the law preventing businesses from discrimination based   
   on sexual orientation.   
      
   Phillips tried to appeal that order arguing that it violated his   
   First Amendment rights. Both sides made their case to the Court   
   of Appeals in July and the court took until now to rule in favor   
   of the couple.   
      
   Phillips says he’s not opposed to making cakes for gay couples   
   such as birthday cakes, holiday cakes and graduation cakes. It’s   
   cakes for gay marriages he says he can’t do based on his   
   religious beliefs. But the American Civil Liberties Union of   
   Colorado said if he’s going to open a business to the public he   
   has to make all services available to everyone in the public.   
      
   “When a business opens its doors to the public it can’t   
   discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, on the basis of   
   race,” Mark Silverstein with the ACLU said after the ruling. “It   
   can’t pick and choose customers based on who they are.”   
      
   The Colorado Court of Appeals was the latest stop in the three-   
   year legal battle that’s tested the boundaries of religious   
   freedom.   
      
   “I think that the ruling is wrong … the constitution guarantees   
   me the right to practice my faith, my religion, anywhere,   
   anytime; there are no restrictions on it,” Phillips said. “It   
   also gives me the right to free speech, anytime, anywhere. I   
   don’t surrender those rights when I open my doors.”   
      
   Phillips now faces fines if he declines to make wedding cakes   
   for gay couples. After the state ordered him to make wedding   
   cakes for everyone he stopped making them for anyone. He says it   
   has cost him 40 percent of his business.   
      
   The case will likely wind up before the state Supreme Court and   
   his attorneys said they are willing to take the case to the U.S.   
   Supreme Court. Gay couples have won similar cases in other   
   states.   
      
   Statement From Jack Phillips’s Lawyer   
      
   “Today’s ruling means that Colorado citizens have a First   
   Amendment right to believe whatever they want and if those   
   citizens hold the government approved views on same-sex   
   marriage, like Azucar bakery, they are entitled to act on those   
   beliefs without fear of punishment. But for citizens like Jack   
   Phillips, the court has created a novel exception to the First   
   Amendment — you’re entitled to believe, but not entitled to act   
   on those beliefs. You’re not free if your beliefs are confined   
   to your mind. What makes America unique is our freedom to   
   peacefully live out these beliefs. We are evaluating next steps.”   
      
   Comments:   
      
   ulie • an hour ago   
   What is very strange is that who started it was one of the   
   plaintiffs...and her mother.   
      
   Radical homosexuals run the State of Oregon...many other gays   
   are ashamed of them... and people have little moral backbone...a   
   very inward, indifferent and secular state with a history of   
   being most hostile to people of faith.   
      
   It is spreading....any conservative to run for anything   
   now...will have their reputations destroyed...   
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   Joe T • an hour ago   
   Gays and Lesbians... You want equal rights, you want to be   
   treated like everyone else in the room. I get it. So lets take   
   people who disagree with you to court and what... force them to   
   like you and give you what you demand. What are you 6 years old.   
   By denying to bake a cake and citing that his beliefs the baker   
   would cause discrimination. The mere fact he can no longer voice   
   his opinion is discrimination.   
      
   Will the Constitution be made available in two-ply for those who   
   would support a ludicrous notion that we can no longer have an   
   opinion if it differs from those around us within our community.   
      
   Gay and Lesbians... You want equality but will sue an individual   
   who disagrees... REALLY!!! Grow up... If you want people to   
   support you and your way of life then practice tolerance and   
   understanding not vengeful dislike!   
      
   Who cares this guy doesn't want to bake your cake... Move on.   
   There are far more important things in life than suing someone   
   over a cake!!!   
      
   Focus your energy on helping abused/starving children!   
   Fight for animal rights!   
   But leave the baker alone... You will not change his   
   perspectives or beliefs.   
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   bleek • an hour ago   
   couldn't go to another bakery?   
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   Francisco Peña • an hour ago   
   Time to go to a Muslim owned bakery and ask for a Jesus Saves   
   cake. see how that goes.   
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   Daniel Williams • an hour ago   
   Moments ago, CBS deleted all the previous comments associated   
   with this article. 95% were stridently against this ruling.   
      
   Bow before your masters, hetero scum (but for God's sake don't   
   let them get behind you while you're doing it...)   
      
   But seriously, who put these repulsive perverts in charge?   
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