“The state commission moved against Phillips after a lawyer asked him to design and bake a custom cake celebrating a gender transition, pink on the inside and blue on the outside.”
They don’t have a leg to stand on as long as they are asking for a custom cake. You can’t force an artist to create what you want or force someone to say what you want.
No, no, they created an arbitrary distinction to handle that, ruling in three cases of bakers asked to make cakes with anti-gay or religious messages that you couldn’t force them to convey messages they found objectionable but mysteriously finding the guy who wouldn’t bake the gay wedding cake wouldn’t be sending any message of his own in baking such a cake but merely sending the customers message. That had a very thin veneer of cover when it wasn’t a custom cake without a custom message, this time they don’t even have that paper thin cover.
And the problem is, trying to force an artist to engage in speech he doesn’t agree with. Now go type me up a post outlining the virtues of Donald Trump.
The question is, would the baker bake this cake if it was for a non-transgender person. For example, if this cake was for fraternal twins. That’s the underlying basis for a suit.
Gibberish. Nobody has any right or power to force me to say something I don’t want to say and they suffer no valid indignity when I refuse to say what they demand I say.
This is the ugly side of liberalism. The lawyer in question could select from many bakeries who would be more than happy to custom design exactly the cake he is looking for. But no chance that will happen, because the lawyer isn’t really looking for a cake at all. He is looking to try and shutdown anyone or anything that is at odds with liberal ideology. That’s what LIBs do.