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Colorado Appeals Court Rules Against Cake Baker Who Discriminated Against Gay Couple

August 13, 2015 by Kyler Geoffroy Leave a Comment

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The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled against a bakery owner that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple back in 2012.

Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood was appealing a lower court ruling that he “unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple.” The Colorado Civil Rights Division’s earlier decision noted evidence in the record that Phillips had expressed willingness to take a cake order for the “marriage” of two dogs, but not for the commitment ceremony of two women, and that he would not make a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding celebration “just as he would not be willing to make a pedophile cake.”

BREAKING: Court rules gay couple cannot be turned away from cake shop. Today is a proud day for equality! pic.twitter.com/eUDqTPMBo4

— ACLU (@ACLU) August 13, 2015

Phillips has pledged to close his cake shop if forced to bake a gay wedding cake.

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