Why the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling is bad for Christians

Why the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling is bad for Christians

Hemant Mehta (http://www.friendlyatheist.com, http://www.patreon.com/Hemant , https://www.facebook.com/friendlyatheist)

We wrote about the issue here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/06/04/todays-supreme-court-victory-for-a-christian-baker-is-bad-news-for-christianity/

Let's talk about one of the biggest stories in the past few weeks: The Supreme Court ruled on a case involving a Christian baker refusing to make a cake for a same-sex couple.

If you're not familiar with the backstory, the gay couple and the mother of one of the guys visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, and before they could even pick out a cake, the owner of the place, Jack Phillips, realized the cake would be for the gay couple and said he wouldn't sell to them because it would violate his Christian beliefs.

Now, he didn't say, "I'm not making a special cake for you with two grooms figurines on the top, because that would violate my beliefs." He refused to even sell them the same cake he would've easily sold to a straight couple.

Don't let anyone tell you this was about the baker's artistic creativity or his refusal to endorse a same-sex marriage. They didn't even get to that part of the conversation. He found out they were gay. He decided he didn't want them as customers.

That's the textbook definition of anti-gay discrimination. No one was asking him to do something he wouldn't have done for other customers.

To me, that's straight-up faith-based discrimination. It's wrong. It shouldn't be legal. That's what a Colorado commission said. That's what an appeals court agreed with. And it's what the Supreme Court, in all its "wisdom," decided to overturn. They sided with the baker.

But I really believe that, even though the baker won the case, this was quite possibly the worst outcome for evangelical Christians for a couple of reasons.

- First, they won. Not even by one vote. They won 7-2. They can't even tell their donors that liberal activist judges are coming after their freedoms. Honestly, it would've been so much better for them, strategically, to have lost the case and tell people, "We need your money to fight back because liberals are after us."

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