This is, let's not forget, all about baking a lousy cake. Better to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court rather than bake a cake for a homosexual couple.
Do folks outside the cocoon of discussion boards like this realize how petty and mean this baker appears?
If this was just about 'baking a lousy cake', then why then did the couple, who went elsewhere to get their cake baked, like they properly should, choose to make this a topic before the state entity?
I cannot find exactly when their complaint was lodged, but it appears to be months after they had already found their cake and had their reception.
Reason: It was not about the cake. They are the ones who without a doubt appear petty and mean, certainly not the guy who in 20 seconds with them told them he could not bake the cake.
And why is the baker taking this up to get this decided before the courts and public opinion?
Because this is the order which the Colorado Civil Rights Commission thrust like a bully down his throat:
the cake shop was ordered not only to provide cakes to same-sex marriages, but to "change its company policies, provide 'comprehensive staff training' regarding public accommodations discrimination, and provide quarterly reports for the next two years regarding steps it has taken to come into compliance and whether it has turned away any prospective customers.
https://www.aclu.org/cases/charlie-craig-and-david-mullins-v-masterpiece-cakeshopYou think it mean and petty for the baker to take 'em on with some help?
I think it mean and petty for Colorado Civil Rights Commission to make someone grovel before them like that.
It is high time we the people expose the belligerent government's abuse of citizens.