I'm glad you found and posted that Phillips article - thank you again. But it doesn't change anything to do with this case in my opinion. Even if Phillips wouldn't bake a generic wedding cake for a same-sex wedding, good for him! I applaud him for having the gonads to actually LIVE his religion and hold to his faith, unlike many LDS people, it seems. He has EVERY right to decline baking a cake for anyone - I don't care who they are or what their event is. THAT is the central point here, and you are trying to overshadow that by harping on minutia - distraction is a favorite of leftists.captainfearnot wrote: ↑December 5th, 2017, 12:48 pmI posted his editorial before I saw this, but just to be clear:
He specifies that the message he objects to communicating is "this event is a wedding" and "an occasion for celebration"—a message which is conveyed by any wedding cake. And he says that he cannot convey that message when the wedding in question is a gay one."Jack Phillips" wrote:What I design is not just a tower of flour and sugar, but a message tailored to a specific couple and a specific event — a message telling all who see it that this event is a wedding and that it is an occasion for celebration.
In this case, I couldn’t. What a cake celebrating this event would communicate was a message that contradicts my deepest religious convictions, and as an artist, that’s just not something I’m able to do, so I politely declined.
Your turn. Please cite where Jack Phillips has ever designed a wedding cake for a gay wedding, upon deeming that the requested design was not a celebration of gay marriage.
Or, please cite the details of the design that Mullins and Craig requested that caused Phillips to decline. If they "obviously" requested specific details celebrating gay marriage in the design then why aren't we talking about them? Why don't we know what they are?
Summary - Phillips, et al, should not be FORCED (whose favorite tool is that? oh yeah, SATAN) by the anti-God, anti-Christ government, to do business with anyone they don't want to do business with. Plain, simple, end of story. If the public don't like that, then the public will put them out of business - that's how it should be. That is called freedom - that is allowing PEOPLE to use their AGENCY, unlike leftists and their socialist, fascist government cronies who want to FORCE everyone to do THEIR will. The nanny state needs to go away. People need to be left to make their own choices and let the chips fall. Not unlike Joseph Smith - "I teach them correct principles, and let them govern themselves." THAT is God-like. All this crap about gov't ruling and reigning over every single aspect of all of our lives, and trying to remove our AGENCY, is SATANIC.