Transgender birthday cake

[Jazzy]

The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith lost an appeal Thursday in his latest legal fight, involving his rejection of a request for a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition.

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that that the cake Autumn Scardina requested from Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop, which was to be pink with blue frosting, is not a form of speech.

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Why did the customer have to select that baker, out of all of the bakers in the area, and then say why they wanted the cake? It would have saved a lot of trouble to have just ordered the cake, period.

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[tango]

Because it's apparently very important to pick the highest profile baker in the state to have another go at branding them a bigot on another high profile stage.

Let's face it, there are no other bakers anywhere in the state of Colorado so the poor transgender people have no choice but to try and order their perfectly innocent cakes from this one man.

That said, if someone ordered a blue cake with pink frosting it's hard to see why it's a problem to create it. I didn't read the full article but suspect there's more to it than "baker refuses to follow customer's requested color scheme".

 

[Albion]

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Why did the customer have to select that baker, out of all of the bakers in the area, and then say why they wanted the cake? It would have saved a lot of trouble to have just ordered the cake, period.

Your thoughts?

It's quite obvious, isn't it? The opponents of freedom of religion are determined to harass this man out of business, keeping him in court forever, costing him all sorts of money, and that they will continue to think up ways to make each alleged grievance of theirs be just enough different from the previous one that it can be used to start the legal challenge all over again.