Whose rights? What equality? Add this to the growing list of privately-owned businesses sued for declining to provide a service for a same sex couple due to their Christian beliefs:
A Denver bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple is about to face the legal heat.
The Colorado Attorney General’s office last week filed a discrimination complaint against the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who last year declined to make a cake for Denver couple Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, the Associated Press reports. The couple had their marriage ceremony in Massachusetts and wanted the cake for a hometown celebration with family and friends.
Jack Phillips, one of the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had cited his Christian beliefs in refusing the men’s business. “We would close down the bakery before we compromised our beliefs,” Phillips told a television interviewer last summer.
So the baker loses his right to free exercise of religion? The Masterpiece Cakeshop isn’t the only bakery in the area, furthermore it’s just a small suburb outside of Denver where even more bakeries are located. If this was about obtaining a cake, the couple have many options, but this isn’t about obtaining a cake, it’s about punishing a Christian for his beliefs.
