USA- The Satanic Temple is urging its followers to target the christian bakers who oppose gay weddings, their strategy is to force them to work making cakes to Satan.
Lucien Greaves, co-founder and spokesperson for The Satanic Templeargued in a blog called “According to Matthew” that business owners christians they are discriminating against gay people for refusing to serve at gay weddings.
He expressed fears that since sexual orientation is not a protected class under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, however, religious business owners could begin to win cases in the United States Supreme Court.
For this reason, the Satanic Temple has announced a plan for those who feel alienated or oppressed by the privileged status religion has over sexual orientation: Have your homophobic baker bake a cake for you. SatanGreaves wrote.
In an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation Greaves suggested that if christians Evangelicals decide not to work on gay weddings, “then other people should be allowed to deny them services.”
“I think it is a legally sustainable option, it is not a very socially sustainable option. We’ve already been through this in the Jim Crow era, I think we’ve come to a kind of social contract that if you’re going to run a business and provide services to the public you need to act within the bounds of what is within social conduct accepted, regardless of their own religion or anything else,” Greaves said.
One of the major cases leading up to the Supreme Court this fall concerns Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop. Phillips is seeking to reverse a 2014 Colorado Civil Rights Commission decision that found him guilty of discriminating against gay couple Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012, when he refused to bake a cake for their wedding.
Alliance defense attorneys representing the baker filed their opening brief with the Supreme Court in late August. “Tolerance should be a two-way street. Phillips gladly caters to anyone who walks into his shop, but as is his practical custom for many artists, he declines design opportunities for a variety of events and messages that conflict with his beliefs. deeply rooted in him. Jack told the couple that he couldn’t design a custom cake to celebrate his wedding because of his Christian faith,” said ADF attorney Kristen Wagoner.
“The First Amendment protects Jack’s right to create artistic expression that is consistent with his fundamental convictions.” Phillips has explained that he still serves gay clients, but does not serve gay weddings, and recently shared that he has received some serious death threats over the case.
The baker said in an emotional speech that his main concern was for his daughter and 4-year-old son.
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