Christian Bakery Owner Wins Supreme Court Case Regarding Same Sex Wedding Cake

June 5. 2018

Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop

This week the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian baker, Jack Phillips, stating his religious rights were violated by the Colorado Civil Rights Division, who exhibited hostility and hatred towards his faith, in a complaint they received regarding a wedding cake he refused to bake. In 2012, Phillips declined the order to make a same sex wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins, on the religious grounds the Bible forbids gay marriage and gay sex.

The gay couple knew Phillips is a Christian baker. When he declined their business to make a same sex wedding cake, they should have accepted that what they were requesting goes against his religion. They should have sought out another baker. Instead they sought to bully, humiliate and harass Phillips over his religious beliefs. The Phillips case illustrates a lack of religious sensitivity and a hatred and vengefulness in trying to destroy and ruin a man over peacefully objecting on religious grounds. 

America is supposed to be a free country with religious liberties. If you wish to be gay that is your right. However, you do not have the right to infringe upon others' religious beliefs. The law has recognized this fact in past legislation. For example, Obamacare healthcare program contains an exemption for people who do not believe in abortion, due to their religion.

Jack Phillips outside the Supreme Court

I've spent time in London, England over the years. I have bought food from Muslim owned and themed food shops found on many streets of London, who sell specialty fruits, vegetables, fruit drinks, sweets and sandwiches. There are also Muslim owned bakeries and sweet shops in London.

While I have bought food from a variety of Muslim owned stores in London (as well as non-Muslim stores, as I bought things from wherever) as a Christian I am not going to go into the Muslim owned/themed bakery and ask them to bake a specialty cake for Easter that contains an often used phrase in Christianity such as "Jesus is Lord" or "Jesus is God." Why would I knowingly do that to them and put them in that position, when I know that's my religion, which conflicts with their beliefs (and vice versa).

It's the same thing in the case of the Christian baker. Craig and Mullins were looking for a fight. They wanted to bully Phillips for being a Christian and not going against his religious beliefs. Some, not all, gay people have exhibited a virulent hatred for Christianity, Islam and all religions whose text forbid gay sex/gay marriages.

Jack Phillips and friends praying

At the end of the day, you can't force people to come around to your point of view. You cannot force people to do things that go against their religious beliefs. People need to learn to peacefully live together in society. Learn to agree to disagree. No one has special rights and privileges to violate the rights and freedoms of others.

Side Bar: the Christian community needs to rally around Phillips, who stood up for religious freedoms, and financially help him. Previously, $30,000 was raised for his legal fees in the Supreme Court case he won this week. People should buy from his shop and donate for any further legal and personal expenses he will incur in the preservation of his religious rights.

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Masterpiece Cakeshop Sees Well-Wishers After Supreme Court Ruling

Jun 4, 2018, 5:31pm MDT - Following a momentous Supreme Court decision on Monday, the scene at a Lakewood, Colorado bakery was mostly celebratory. A handful of camera crews and reporters camped out front of Masterpiece Cakeshop where, inside, customers shook hands with baker Jack Phillips and congratulated him. The Supreme Court’s ruling came Monday morning, a 7-2 majority decision in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop. Citing religious freedom, Phillips had declined to make couple Dave Mullin and Charlie Craig their wedding cake.

Inside the bakery, the telephone rang off the hook. Phillips declined to comment on the ruling, smiling to his customers, but otherwise remaining deadpan. “To stand up for what you believe in is very hard to do,” one customer, Ruth Doke, said. She and her husband Randy were vacationing from California when they heard the news and decided to detour to the Denver suburb. “He seems to have a peace inside of him,” she said of Phillips. Inside the store, a sign read: “When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christ like it resolves a great deal of Anxiety.”...

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