The Christian Baker’s Unanswered Legal Argument: Why the Strongest Objections Fail

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Next week, the Supreme Court will hear one of the most important free speech cases in years … Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission involves Jack Phillips, a baker who claims a First Amendment right not to be compelled to design and create custom wedding cakes for same-sex weddings. Many legal commentators think the case is either a very close call or a certain defeat for Phillips. In fact, Phillips’s case is very strong.

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Bert Perry
Fri, 12/01/17 12:15 pm

In a nutshell, it’s that the case is indeed about compelled speech, which the court has historically said is unconstitutional. The left would like to make it about public accommodation, but since he would do business with homosexuals in other cases, that one falls.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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David R. Brumbelow
Tue, 12/05/17 3:41 pm

“In addition to the ERLC, others filing briefs in support of Phillips included 86 members of Congress, 20 states or governors of states, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian Legal Society, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Agudath Israel of America, the libertarian Cato Institute, National Black Religious Broadcasters and National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.”

http://www.bpnews.net/50014/high-court-weighs-cake-artists-liberty

David R. Brumbelow