We’d thought the Supreme Court had settled this with Masterpiece Cakeshop, which is apparently the only bakery in Colorado, seeing as it attracts so much business from the LGBTQ community. Last we checked in, Colorado was requiring Jack Phillips to create a cake to celebrate a sex reassignment. According to SCOTUS, though, Phillips was allowed to refuse business because the cake was an artistic expression made from scratch; it’s not like he was denying gay people from buying cakes off the shelf. In other words, it was compelled speech.
As Twitchy reported earlier, the latest target in this game is a website designer who refused to take on a client who wanted a custom website for a same-sex wedding.
Justice Kagan wants to know how, if the website designer creates a website for a gay marriage, that means the designer is endorsing the marriage.
— Nicole Russell (@russell_nm) December 5, 2022
Someone ask Justice Kagen why the couple can’t just find another web designer. Maybe they just want to force someone opposed to gay marriage to create a website celebrating it.
The subject came up at Monday’s White House press briefing, and Karine Jean-Pierre made it clear that the government can compel you to bake that cake and code that website.
KJP: "…we can require businesses…to service people, regardless of their backgrounds, even when that means businesses must, incidentally, engage in speech [with] which they disagree…" pic.twitter.com/G8qsPBgBu3
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 5, 2022
Who’s “we,” lady?
The government can't compel speech
— Notes to Self (@travis515151) December 5, 2022
It's what leftists really believe.
— Tucson Tman (@tucsontman) December 5, 2022
No, no you can’t actually
— Christine 🇺🇸❤️🐾🐊🛩 (@aGirlNamedBear) December 5, 2022
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No, I will never utter what is compelled of me, simply for no other reason than government compelling speech is wrong.
— Kent Moore (@kentrmoore) December 5, 2022
So much for Dem "we care about the Constitution" faux cries of outrage.
— TheCatsMeow (@LB22222222) December 5, 2022
This election is about democracy vs. authoritarianism … now bake that cake!
https://twitter.com/lrasbury60/status/1599870639728250880
https://twitter.com/AldermanMarvin/status/1599876362226892801
Ok. So social media can be forced to post Nazi propaganda? That’s quite a turnaround from last week.
— BB Digsolns (@BbDigsolns) December 5, 2022
Just do such a bad, super expensive job they will never ask again. Problem solved.
— Mark Hopper (@Loveourworld2) December 5, 2022
That was our thought with the cake … just do a spectacularly s**tty job on it.
Yeah that is not at all a thing you can do. But do go ahead and try. Just don’t forget that we are a free people, we know we are a free people, and free people revolt against this sort of tyranny.
— 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊 MrsLibertyBelle pronouns: bad/bitch (@MrsLibertyBell1) December 5, 2022
https://twitter.com/internetm0gul/status/1599870970059112448
What happened to the, “It’s a private business they can do what they want”? Hypocrisy at it’s best. What a dim-wit she is.
— Buck Fiden (@CJRogers72) December 5, 2022
This idiot needs to shut up.
— Law Dog: D&D was just a Gateway RPG anyway 😉 (@LawDogStrikes) December 5, 2022
We’re quietly thankful that President Biden hasn’t expanded the Supreme Court … yet.
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Related:
Neil Gorsuch cleverly teases out the truth about what Colorado did to Christian baker Jack Phillips https://t.co/Z5wK483IZY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 5, 2022