Christian baker takes 'compulsion of speech' case to Supremes

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner appeals Colorado demand he promote 'gay marriage'

Bob Unruh

Jack Phillips, the baker whose Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado was targeted by homosexual activists over his religious beliefs, an attack then joined by the state of Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission, is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to veto the state’s “outright compulsion of speech.”..... “The First Amendment prohibits the government from telling private citizens ‘what they must say,'”.......“Neither should CADA ban Jack Phillips’ polite declining to create a cake celebrating same-sex marriage on the religious grounds when he is happy to create other items for gay and lesbian clients.”

The Colorado state Supreme Court earlier, in a decision by a judge who boasts on a state website of being a homosexual-rights advocate through the Denver mayor’s “GLBT Commission” and three others, refused to intervene in the case....... Read more