"The owner of a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado (who also happens to be an anti-LGBT Christian, of course) says he will stop baking wedding cakes altogether after the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled he could not refuse to bake one for a gay couple.
Phillips said he doesn't believe in gay marriage and he refused to sell them a cake. "We would close down the bakery before we would complicate our beliefs," Phillips said after the hearing. Phillips also admitted he had refused service to other same-sex couples.
A judge previously ruled a business owner cannot refuse service to a customer on the basis of sexual orientation.
Phillips appealed to the commission, but it upheld the decision.
That prompted Phillips to decide he would no longer make any wedding cakes. He said he would be fine selling cupcakes for a birthday party for someone who is gay but added, "I don't want to participate in a same-sex wedding." Full story here!
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