{"id":8130,"date":"2018-06-04T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:56:55","slug":"uh-oh-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8130","title":{"rendered":"Uh-oh …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the Supreme Court has tried to craft a narrow decision in favor<\/a> of the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.<\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same sex couple because of a religious objection.
\nThe ruling was 7-2.<\/p>\n

The court held that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed hostility toward the baker based on his religious beliefs. The ruling is a win for baker Jack Phillips but leaves unsettled the broader constitutional questions the case presented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The court appears to have taken exception to anti-religious animus expressed by the Colorado civil rights commission.<\/p>\n

However narrow the intent of the decision, anybody who thinks this won’t inspire other shopkeepers to exclude and refuse service to Buddhists, atheists, mixed-race couples — on and on — is out of his mind; this decision will inspire more overt racism and religious hostility.<\/p>\n

The court seems not to know that the great mass of Americans are idiots who need simple rules to follow, that pettifogging nuances are inaccessible to them; it has erred, and everybody who is “other<\/i>” will pay dearly for its blunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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