Friday, October 13, 2017

What Is Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander

There is the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission where the commission found that the Masterpiece Cakeshop violated the state’s non-discrimination when they refused to make a cake for a gay couple and now the case is before the Supreme Court.

Well now a gay man told Christians to get out of his store and the Christians are crying foul.
Pro-life Group Forced to Leave Seattle Coffeeshop by Gay Owner
ChristianHeadlines
By Veronica Neffinger
October 10, 2017


A pro-life Christian group was told they had to leave a Seattle coffeeshop by the business’s gay owner.

The Washington Times reports that members of the pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion came into Seattle’s Bedlam Coffee to order drinks following their time distributing pro-life pamphlets around the community.

Once Bedlam’s owner found out that a pro-life Christian group had entered his business, he told them to leave.
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Many who watched the video called out the hypocrisy in our society today between those who approve of this gay coffeeshop owner having the right to kick this pro-life group out of his business and many of the same people who accuse Christian business owners such as bakery owner Jack Phillips of discriminating against gay people when he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
Okay, these cases do sound similar but there are differences.

First I would say that there is hypocrisy between the two cases if they are equal (which they may not be) and second I don’t even know if a complaint has been files with the state’s human rights commission and if there was a complaint the commission hasn’t ruled on it yet if a complaint was filed, who knows the commission might find that there was discrimination.

What is difference?

In the Colorado case the store owners were asked to bake a cake which is their business and in the Seattle case they were disturbing pamphlets, which is a big difference!

One, we do not know what the store policy for disturbing pamphlets; do they have a policy that nothing will be handed out in the store? Did they ask the store owners if it is okay to hand them out? How graphic was the pamphlets?

Apple and oranges.

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