Just as I do every day, I was
waiting at the airport and I began thinking about cakes.
I sit at the terminal waiting to
espy Jon Stewart, Chelsea Handler, Lena Dunham, Keegan-Michael Key, Al
Sharpton, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Cher, George Lopez, Barbra Streisand,
Amy Schumer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Mylie Cyrus, all of whom promised to
leave the United States
He was, and I have yet to catch a
glimpse of any of these phonies departing.
Alas.
In any case, as I said, I was
thinking about cakes when a monitor in the terminal ran a CNN story about Jack
Phillips.
Mr. Phillips is a baker who
specializes in over-the-top wedding and special event cakes. In fact, they are more works of art than confectionary
goods.
Some time ago a gay couple
desperately desired Mr. Phillips to design and bake a cake for their husband
and husband marriage.
Mr. Phillips, a devout Christian,
declined because his religious sect did not allow for marriage to occur between
anyone other than a man and woman, period.
Rather than thanking Mr. Phillips
for his time and finding another bakery, this pair felt it necessary to attempt
to financially ruin Mr. Phillips and his bakery by filing a discrimination
lawsuit.
This couple, Charlie Craig and
David Mullins, took their case to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The
free thinking commission ruled against Phillips, and a Colorado
Well, the United States Supreme
Court took this case and overturned the judgment against Phillips because it
violated Mr. Phillips’ Constitutional Rights.
You see, everybody wound up with
hurt feelings, and you can be wrong even though you throw a legal tantrum. In this case, the Supreme Court felt government
officials treated Phillips’ religious beliefs as mere rhetoric, pooh-poohing
his long-standing rights.
This is when I began to use
logic. I’ve only been to Colorado once
on business, and although I simply love blueberry cake doughnuts with a light
powder sugar glaze, I hadn’t had the opportunity or drive to visit any bakery,
much less Jack Phillips’ bakery.
However, I’ll wager my retirement
check there is more than just one bakery in Colorado
In fact, Lowe’s refused to serve
me in their window treatment department; I made my displeasure known and
haven’t been back. Nor will I return
even if they sell artificial hearts and I need one to continue living and
kvetching. But I digress.
Husband and husband Charlie and
David should have simply gone to one of the other Colorado
Now the sour grapes Left is
publishing “what-ifs,” such as what if an atheist baker refuses service to
evangelical Christians?
Here’s a thought: If those hypothetical
Christians had any sense of self-worth they would take their trade to a bakery
that appreciates the rights and wishes of the baker while respecting and
celebrating diversity.
Get over it.
