Pre-Made Wedding Cakes Good Enough for Same-Sex Couples Custom Cakes Optional if Baker Has Religio

[TexasTowelie]

Pre-Made Wedding Cakes Good Enough for Same-Sex Couples – Custom Cakes Optional if Baker Has Religious Objection

A California county superior court judge has ruled in favor of an anti-gay Christian baker who refused to sell a same-sex couple a custom wedding cake, citing her religious beliefs. Last August Cathy Miller, the owner of Tastries bakery told a couple she would not bake them a cake and referred them to another baker.

"There could not be a greater form of expressive conduct" than the baking of a wedding cake, Kern County Superior Court Judge David Lampe ruled in his 8-page decision. "A wedding cake is not just a cake in a Free Speech analysis. It is an artistic expression by the person making it that is to be used traditionally as a centerpiece in the celebration of a marriage."

In December Judge Lampe refused to grant California a temporary restraining order barring Miller from selling any item to a different-sex couple she would not sell to a same-sex couple.

"The difference here is that the cake is not yet baked," Judge Lampe wrote in his decision Monday. "The state is not petitioning the court to order defendants to sell a cake. The state asks this court to compel Miller to use her talents to design and create a cake she has not yet conceived with the knowledge that her work will be displayed in celebration of a marital union her religion forbids. For this court to force such compliance would do violence to the essentials of Free Speech guaranteed under the First Amendment."

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/judge_rules_in_favor_anti_gay_christian_bakers_selling_pre_made_wedding_cakes_to_same_sex_couples

[msongs]

1. dear judge, a "gay" wedding is just as valid as a hetero xtian marriage in California nt

[HopeAgain]

2. The %1 are making billions by getting the votes

of idiots like this, willing to forego the profits of a custom wedding cake because he now feels justified in his hate. His church is going to keep pressing for what money he is making, convincing him all along his sacrifice is somehow noble. This baker will never realize what a stooge he is.

[catrose]

3. ya know

In the future I will ask bakers, florists, etc., if they serve same-sex couples. If not, they don't get my heterosexual business either. If they won't serve my child, I won't deal with them.

[marble falls]

4. Good idea. I am going to do the same, I don't know why I didn't think of it before.