by Jordan Barela

Only in America can a person sue someone for not wanting to spread hate, slap a “violation of civil rights” defense on the law suit, and call it a day.

In late January, a baker in Colorado was sued for refusing to put an anti-gay message on a cake.
The customer came to Azucar Bakery in Denver and wanted phrases such as “God hates gays” and an image of two men holding hands with a giant, red “X.”

The baker even tried to work out a deal with the customer and offered a cake with a blank Bible and frosting so she would not have to write a heinous message.

This kind of backwards ignorance can only happen in America.

Yes, the customer does have the right to his opinion and his view. However, the baker should not be neglected to her right to free speech, as well.

For one, how can someone want to spread discrimination? And two, when someone else refuses to spread that hate, that person turns around and issues a discrimination suit?
Baffling.

This is not the only case involving discrimination through cakes.

A same-sex couple, also in Colorado, was refused a cake for their wedding. Oh, the irony.

That is a discrimination case. However, as painful as it is to type, the bakery in the latter case does have a right to refuse to bake a cake for the couple, because it violates what they believe in.

It is unfair if one company can refuse to service based on beliefs and another company can’t. The refusal to make a cake for a gay couple is extremely wrong and does have grounds for a discrimination case, but the people that refused to do it do have the right to.

A quote in a Washington Post article perfectly sums up this whole issue.

Mark Silverstein, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said “There’s no law that says that a cake-maker has to write obscenities in the cake just because the customer wants it.”

Case closed.