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Baker says he’d rather go to jail after judge orders him to bake cakes for gay ‘weddings’

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A contemporary white wedding cake decorated with sugar bows. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) DENVER,  – A Denver cake baker who was   ordered   by a judge last week to service same-sex “weddings” or face punishing fines has told Fox News that he would rather shut down his business and serve jail time than violate his beliefs and play a role in facilitating gay nuptials. In an  interview  with Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck , cake maker Jack Phillips said, “You know, [I’ll serve jail time if] that’s what it takes.  It’s not like I have chosen this team or that team. This is who I am, it’s what I believe.” “Does becoming a business owner mean you have to check your convictions at the door?” Hasselbeck asked. “Why is it important for you to have a business and not have to abandon personal religious beliefs just to make a buck?” “I don't plan on giving up my religious beliefs ... I don't feel that I should participate in their wedding, and when I do a ca...

Judge forces Christian Businessman to bake a cake for immoral Homosexual Marriage or go to jail

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English: Wedding cake of a same-sex marriage, photo taken on a party in Offenbach am Main, Germany Deutsch: Hochzeitstorte auf einer Lebenspartnerschaftsfeier, aufgenommen in Offenback am Main 中文: 同性婚姻典礼上的婚礼蛋糕,摄于德国奥芬巴赫 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Denver Post says: "If you're going to sell wedding cakes in Colorado, you have to sell them to everyone who comes into your shop. You can't pick and choose among customers based upon your belief that some weddings are immoral." But not all agree. Does the owner of a business have the right to refuse service to a customer? If refusing to sell alcohol to an intoxicated person a judgment call? Can churches refuse to allow homosexuals to use their halls? That's the principle that administrative law judge Robert N. Spencer reinforced with his recent ruling that the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood must sell wedding cakes to gay couples. This is fact tramples on religious liberty outright. Cake-maker Ja...

Homosexual Marriage now threatens religious liberty

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Six months. That’s how long it took to get from the U.S. Supreme Court ’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act to the decision of a Colorado judge ordering a Christian baker to make a cake for a same-sex ceremony. Just six months. Back in June, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in theWindsor case, ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act, passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, was unconstitutional. Six months later, judge Robert N. Spencer, an administrative law judge in Colorado, ruled that Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Denver must serve same-sex couples by making wedding cakes, or face fines. Last Friday, Judge Spencer ruled that Phillips must “cease and desist from discriminating” against same-sex couples in his cake business. The case emerged after Phillips refused to make a cake to celebrate the civil union of David Mullins and Charlie Craig. Colorado has a constitutional amendmen...