Jimmy Kimmel mocks Christian baker who refuses to bake homosexual Marriage cake

Even Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who won his case at the Supreme Court of the United States scarcely two months ago, has attracted the ire of the progressive funny-men. Jimmy Kimmel, who received the title “the moral conscience of America” from his friends for plugging for universal health care, decided to go after Phillips last week when the baker landed in court again, after an attorney relentlessly harassed Phillips with requests and finally got the Colorado Civil Rights Commission to agree that Phillips’ refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition was a violation of civil rights. The LGBT movement, it turns out, has no intention of letting Phillips live in peace.

But Kimmel apparently thinks the whole thing is hilarious. “It’s funny because this is a guy who spends all day, every day, meticulously designing flowers out of icing,” he said to his cackling audience. “His whole life is gay, okay? I don’t know if the wrong cake might bring that to life or what.” Even more than that, in Kimmel’s opinion Phillips apparently looks gay, too—he referred to the baker several times sarcastically as “the totally straight cake baker” and then stated that, “You would think that someone who looks like the Reba McEntire version of Colonel Sanders would be more sympathetic to gender identity issues.”

Actually, you’d think that a comedian would respect the right of someone not to voice a point of view he disagrees with through the art he creates, but that is apparently too much to ask. And of course, Kimmel didn’t mention that the request for a “gender transition” cake was only the final request in a long string of demands placed on Phillips by the attorney and others who wanted to drag him back into court. 

In September, for example, Phillips was asked to design a birthday cake that showed Satan smoking weed. Following that, someone emailed him asking that he bake a cake with an “upside-down cross, under the head of Lucifer.” He was then asked to bake a three-tiered white cake with Satan engaged in a sex act perched on the top. Another request came in for a cake with a pentagram on it.

Hilarious, right? A Christian baker who just won the right to return to his business and live in peace is the target of harassment by an attorney and a handful of others who request demonic and obscene artwork on their orders simply to harass and upset Phillips. 

But if Kimmel had mentioned any of those facts in his little monologue where he insinuated that Phillips is a closeted gay man, he might have accomplished something he wanted to avoid—creating sympathy for Phillips. After all, Kimmel has compared bakers declining to use their creative skills to produce celebratory cakes for gay weddings to refusing to serve Jews, so he could not possibly present information that illustrates clearly that it is Phillips being persecuted here.

This little incident also highlights the double-standard that exists for the televangelists and funny-men who mock the enemies of the Left. 

Can you imagine what would happen to a right-wing TV host if he insinuated someone was gay simply because he disagreed with that person? The wrath of the late-night clones would descend immediately, and they might even transform their shows into public confessionals where the offending party could show up and grovel and apologize if he or she so chose. 

Because that is the irony of the progressive Left: They claim to love diversity, but what they mean is that they want people who look different to think the same. 

If someone like Jack Phillips turns up, however, then everything changes. He must be mocked and crushed because he thinks differently. In the meantime, however, we could all have a sanitized and progressive-approved laugh at his predicament.