On 03-08-14, EARL CROASMUN said to TIM RICHARDSON:


>> Lending or selling someone a car does not
>> make you a participant in whatever they DO with that car later. And if
>> you know they are going to rob a bank and do not report it, that makes you
>> an accessory to the crime whether you lent them the car or not.


> And if you are a Christian baker who KNOWS a wedding cake ordered from you
is >intended to celebrate a s-called `wedding' between two same-sex
EC>sodomites, and > you bake it for them anyway, that makes you an accessory


EC>to sodomy! Not at all.  It would make you an "accessory to marriage,"
EC>which is NOT a crime.  If the marriage were a crime, then EVERYONE who
EC>just KNEW about it without reporting it to the police would be an
EC>accessory to the marriage.  But it makes no difference, since it is not a
EC>crime.  Now that you know the couple was married in Massachusetts, that
EC>makes you as much of an "accessory" as the baker.


EC>And it couldn't possibly make anyone an accessory to any sex that the
EC>couple might have, since the marriage and the sex are two completely
EC>different things. Since the sex would be legal, with or without the
EC>marriage, the whole idea of being an accessory to it is once again
EC>meaningless.


You can't have it both ways. Either same-sex marriage is illegal in Colorado,
or it isn't. If its `illegal', the baker refusing to participate in it is the
same as refusing to be an accessory to a crime.





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