Video: Our Trip to the Masterpiece Cake Shop

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Topics: Current Events Tags: events, faith, homosexuality, policy, religious liberty June 13, 2018 by Jim Daly

Jo-van Mangum

10 months ago

Praise the Lord! We wish Jack continued success and prosperity in his business.

Sally Graham

11 months ago

What wonderful loving witnessing speeches!

Lenny Robinson

11 months ago

Why do people think they have a right to make someone do what they don’t believe in. If a person refuses you just move on. I bet there is a same sex bakery around that would be happy to bake you a cake.

Will N Pam Phillips

11 months ago

Hi from Bangula Malawi East Africa, My wife Pam and I are so thankful for Jack Phillips Godly stand in the face of such ……. And his family what a testimony !!!! Hey we offer room and board for six months for them to come stay with us at our childrens home (now if someone pays their planefare and they want to come …) Ha Ha we have stoves and flour… if they get bored hugging children!!!! What a blessing thankyou for sharing and supporting them. We have gladly forwarded ur message. Always grace and love and a bucket of chuckles… Will n Pam Phillips tiyamike.com

Anonymous

11 months ago

Thanks FOTF for supporting God's plan for marriage and family, and highlighting a good and godly man like Jack. We need more men like him!!!

Cindy Stone

11 months ago

Thank you for sharing Masterpiece Cake Shops story. To God be the glory, great things He has done and is still doing.

Sincerely,

Cindy Stone

Anonymous

11 months ago

Loved this! Thank you for supporting Jack and Jack, thank you for being diligent in your love for Christ!

LOIS KINOTI

11 months ago

May God give every Christian boldness like that Jack to stand up for our faith no matter the consequences. God bless you for your visit and encouraging this hero of faith.

Heather Hall

11 months ago

I really appreciate those who are willing to protect our 1st amendment rights to free practice of religion by going through the sometimes long, expensive and stressful process of the court system. We should all support the Christian legal organizations which are fighting this fight. I think the time has come where we need to be willing to aggressively defend our right (and our children's right) to practice faith. The secular world has a very aggressive agenda right now aimed at blotting out our constitutional right to free practice. The LGBT activist community has been a prime force in that organized attack on religious liberty, although other groups, such as some large corporations, organized atheists, and liberal leaning administrators on college campuses are also active. This is resulting in more and more state and local laws, policies and regulations as well as organizational codes of conduct, which attempt to force Christians to act contrary to faith -- from banning counselors from helping people who want to escape their gay/lesbian lifestyle, to forcing Christian children in school to be indoctrinated with sex education classes which encourage sexual activity, to type-casting employee expressions of faith as "offensive".

If you actually read the Supreme Court decision, one of the main points is that the government should be neutral towards religion. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission was not neutral when it decided that an "anti-gay marriage" message was "offensive" but failed to acknowledge that a "pro-gay marriage" message is also offensive -- to those who serve Christ. Why is it offensive? To me, it's because "gay marriage" blasphemes the image of God as reflected in the male and femaleness of the marriage union.

As for Gail Corrado's comments below, that "love is love", and therefore we should all support gay marriage -- Just wanted to say that it took Jesus' life and death to show what love really is. One of America's biggest problems is that people have all kind of wrong ideas about what love is. Two men (or women) deciding to engage in mutual sexual pleasure for which the body was not designed, which has no potential to result in conception of children, being proud of the same, and demanding that every individual approve or be threatened, sued or bullied if they don't -- that is not the same thing as love. Jesus died to change the heart that erringly sees such behavior as love.

Susan Enyart

11 months ago

I couldn't have said it better myself! Right on Sister,

You Speak the Truth with Love ! Thank You !

mo ferraro

11 months ago

Why don't the DEVIANT cowards go to a MUSLIM bakery and target them to make? Because they are COWARDS; Let's see what they get when they stick their rainbow pieces in a muslim's face. The <3% of our population target Christians, because despite their nonsense, Christians are still are kind and loving. God is love and God is JUSTICE....and despite what they do AT his believers here on earth that they claim is their right, consequences await all of them from the final JUDGE. The 3% are lost, mendacious, demoncrat fooooools.

Anonymous

11 months ago

While I understand your frustration and agree, I don't think the name calling helps our argument. It only reinforces the negative stereotypes that some have about conservatives, Christians, etc. We should pray for those who are lost and confused to be found.

Anna Mae

10 months ago

"Christians are still kind and loving..." + "Why don't the DEVIANT cowards go to a MUSLIM bakery... " = ?????

Nicole Bartlett Ericksen

11 months ago

Jack and The Masterpiece Cake Shop surely represented Christ in his loving manner no matter what was thrown at him. I also love his statement and am going to start using it: "I am willing to serve all people, but not all messages." Amen

Anonymous

11 months ago

Ty for supporting God's Word, God's Love and Christian Faith. The world wants us to change our faith to fit in, but we are called to stand out in love and you all did that. God Bless

Kathy Carpenter

11 months ago

Thank you for your support of The Masterpiece Cake Shop.

Gail Corrado

11 months ago

I enjoy your advice on strengthening marriage, but I disagree with your position on the Masterpiece Cake Shop and on the issue of gay marriage rights. I did not know your position before I subscribed to your newsletter. I will be unsubscribing. I pray that one day we will all recognize that love is love, and that love is a gift from God, no matter where we may find it.

Steve Rogers

11 months ago

Gods gift to us is love through the sacrifice of his son Jesus on the cross. He died for everyone's sin, equally. But homosexuality is a sin and we have to stand against sin.

DawneSN

11 months ago

Gail...I'm assuming your statement, "love is love," refers to your belief that a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman is okay. However, it is not a matter of your agreement with the issue, but of God's. His Word clearly rejects homosexual activity as sinful in both testaments. Also, marriage between one man and one woman is well defined in Genesis and is a picture of Christ, the bridegroom, and His church, the bride of Christ, holy and undefiled (achieved only by the regeneration of the heart via conversion). This is a difficult subject in these last couple of decades, and I struggle with how to parse loving with Christ's love and rejecting the sinful behavior. But as a follower of Christ, I must rest in God's Word and in His standards, not my own.

Nathaniel Carter

11 months ago

Statistically speaking, the gay lifestyle is one of the most destructive things you could do to your physical and emotional health. The gay community has drastically higher rate of spousal/partner abuse, substance abuse, and subscriptions to psychiatric pharmaceuticals. I am not sure what the current rate is, but about 3 years ago members of the LGBT community lived about 20 years shorter than all other statistical groups. All of these statistics were markedly higher in metropolitan cities where the LGBT community is strongly supported. Speaking out in love, individually and corporately, against LGBT relationships is the equivalent of pleading with all the inhabitants of the Titanic as it steadily sailed toward its destruction.

Christopher Johnson

11 months ago

I understand your opinion but the reality is this: if everyone wants equal rights, then a business owner has the right to refuse service to anyone. Just as the coffee shop in California refused to serve police officers. They were not punished in any way. The officer left quietly. I don’t view it as a moral decision as much as a legal one. Liberal business owners make these decisions all the time but we only hear about it when it fits their agenda.

mo ferraro

11 months ago

barf. God is love and grace but God is TRUTH and justice. He makes it very, very clear that a man lying with a man or woman with woman is not HIS plan for HIS creation which you are. HE is TRUTH and you will either get it or ya don't. Go ahead, sit in your lies and then come the consequences of a fool of the world and the devil. so sad

James Megenhardt

11 months ago

I am glad for the decision, however we Christians have to stay on our toes. There are many who claim to be ‘Christians’ whom will use this court decision as an excuse to express their hate, and we must be willing to stand against such so that the world can see there are ‘christians’ and then there are the followers of Christ; like Jack.

Anonymous

11 months ago

No sane person (whether Christian or not) would sell a rifle to a guy who says he wants it to kill someone (murder- a sin) or give confidential information to a crook who says he intends to rob a bank (stealing - a sin) or give access to a drug dealer who says he wants to sell drugs to their child, and so on.

So surely this baker has done a fantastic job of standing up for his conviction. Jesus likes such people - Stephen, Peter, Paul, etc.

Anonymous

11 months ago

Does this cake baker make cakes for people who lie? Who steal? Who have anger issues? Why single out one ‘sin’?! Isn’t all sin sin and don’t we all fall short? Has this cake baker acted in love by turning these so called sinners away? Does Jesus only live us, bless us when we’re perfect and without sinners? I would say Jesus’ focus is the attitude of our heart?

Anonymous

11 months ago

Why single out this cake baker? Because they knew he would refuse. If people don't force their views on you, why must you force your views on them?

Anonymous

11 months ago

I think you've misconstrued the argument. The baker did not turn away the person (the "sinner"), he simply refused to assist that person in participating in an event which he believed to be sinful. In the same way, it may be uncharitable to deny a person with anger issues a glass of water, but if the angry person intends to throw that water in his neighbor's face (out of anger) it would be wrong to give it to him. It would be unnecessary for an Uber driver to deny a man a ride in his automobile because his prospective passenger has stolen things in the past, but by acting as the getaway vehicle for a bank robbery - the uber driver would be assisting in evasion. It would priggish of me to refuse to exchange words with men whom I consider to be liars, but to use my words to aid them in a lie would most definitely be wrong. I believe it would have been wrong for the baker to deny the sale of a cake to a homosexual, but providing a cake for the purpose of celebrating a homosexual union would clearly be in violation of his conscious (not saying you have to agree with him). In the same way, should a neo-nazi walk into his shop to buy a cannoli, it would be unlawful to refuse service; but should the customer make clear he intends to buy a dozen cannoli for the purpose of rejuvenating those engaged in harassing the local synagog, the baker would have every right to refuse service (and probably should - IMHO). I would also argue that, from the paradigm of the baker, he HAS acted in love. Returning to the uber-driver analogy - if I am a law-abiding citizen who believes this country's laws to be fair and just, and a bank robber asks me to assist in his evading the police (a sinful act) - the most charitable thing I can do is to refuse him service. To do anything but would be to add to his sentence. And while I'm sure the baker understands that Jesus blesses the liars, the adulterers, the thieves, etc., I'm sure Jesus never condoned lying, adultery, and thievery - nor does He require that his followers assist those in engaging in such practices.

Anonymous

11 months ago

Well said

NPoling

11 months ago

it is called freedom, cake makers can reject all kinds of messages on cakes because we live in America. The same cake maker would probably reject blatant messages that are lies and angry. I have never understood why free markets are so hard to understand by people. Jesus even practiced this principle when he told his disciples how to handle towns that rejected them as opposed to towns who accepted them. Would you be equally as angry if this cake maker had rejected a cake to a Nazi with all sorts of objectionable nazi symbols on it?

Kelly Nealis

11 months ago

Not sure what kind of comparison you are trying to make. This isn't about not serving "sinners" at all. This is about PARTICIPATING or CONTRIBUTING to an event. BIG difference.

Every single American has the right to refuse to participate in an act that is against their sincerely held religious beliefs.

The government cannot compel "speech" or actions in this case, unless you would rather live in a communist or fascist country.

The supreme court decided correctly in this case.

Claire Asiegbu

11 months ago

No thieves and liars who visit his shop don't ask him to design a cake to celebrate the act of robbing, they just buy a cake and leave....... I hope the Tyranny exhibited by the homosexual and transgender crowd begins to backfire against them from this point on, in JESUS NAME. AMEN

Walter Lutes

11 months ago

Read what the baker says. He does make cakes for homosexuals and anyone that comes through the door pretty much. He has even refused to make cakes for some Christians. He won't make wedding cakes for homosexuals because the cake represents the marriage of homosexuals. He will make a cake as long as the message of the cake does not violate his beliefs.

Anonymous

11 months ago

You are correct on that. You are Biblical on that. "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," - Romans 3:23

Some of my sins are gluttony toward food and overindulgence. Weight Watchers really helped me a lot. Am I to say the counselors there *hate* obese people and that's why they help them out of that sin?

It has nothing at all to do with hate. Encouraging someone to eat healthy has nothing to do with hate. Encouraging someone not to drink and drive has nothing to do with hate. It has to do with wanting the best for our children and others; including protection from the potential consequences related to homosexual behavior (also warned of Biblically):

88% of San Francisco syphilis cases were found among homo/bisexual men; Chicago AIDS diagnoses connected to homo/bisexual men increased from 37% in year 2000 to 44% in 2003; homo/bisexual men accounted for approximately 73% of Chicago syphilis cases for the year 2005; this is the population most severely affected by HIV and are the only risk group in which new HIV infections have been increasing steadily since the early 1990s; in November 2009, 63% of syphilis cases in this country were found in homo/bisexuals lesbians face a higher breast cancer risk (one study found that: "Sixty-three percent of the lesbians had never been pregnant....[And] Not having children increases a woman's breast cancer risk by between two to six times."; another study found bacterial vaginosis occuring in 33% of the lesbians but only in 13% of heterosexual women, and found that: "Cervical cytology abnormalities were uncommon but only found in the lesbians." (may be precursors to cervical cancers.) Also see factsaboutyouth dot com/posts/life-span/.

Should a doctor be forced to perform an abortion (murder, according to his beliefs and if beliefs are all relative and okay to each individual if you do not believe in Biblical truth, then his are as valid as anybody's) - absolutely not! He should not be forced to do so.

Should a parent watch a child run into the street because it's what he 'wants' to do and doesn't want to make him feel bad for what he wants despite it not being the best for him? Of course not - the parent should do everything they can to avoid the consequence of their child being hit by a car. On the contrary, *not* doing so is the unloving thing to do.

No matter how we spin this; if we live by absolute truth (Biblical commands, which actually free us from the burden of sin and warn us of behaviorial consequences, which is loving) - or if you flip it and live by relativism (whatever works for 'you') - then Phillips is innocent in both cases. Nobody who believes in relativism should have a problem with him just being who he is and making the decisions he makes.

Yes, we are all sinners. Yet this seems to be the one sin that is being forced down everyone's throats as perfectly fine and acceptable, forced upon society through legalities to accept - or else you'll pay. That's not relativism which so many push so hard to project - that is their absolute truth. That's the difference.

John Hart

11 months ago

Discrimination is what life is about, and when government intervenes to stop people from discriminating, it opens a Pandora's box. The only organization that needs to be forbidden from discriminating is government, in this case government was discriminating against Mr. Philip, the Supreme Court recognized and reversed it. The correct action for the plaintiffs when told it would be a violation of his faith to artistically participate in a 'sinful union' was to go some where else. Instead they abused the law, and used it to attack him. The Court didn't address the larger issue in this case as it did when it severed the concept of marriage from biological truth, and established sexless unions in it's place.

Norman Burns

11 months ago

The baker won on a technicality: The Colorado anti-discrimination agency that sanctioned him acted unconstitutionally.

But if a baker in the state again refuses to serve a same sex couple, the state will win in a lawsuit as long as the state's anti-discrimination agency "refrains from statements or actions that seem to disparage religion."

The more you know...

And, sorry, but this isn't a hero of the faith. This is a modern day Pharisee. Jesus would not have denied somebody service just based on their lifestyle. He gave water to the Samaritan woman at the well. The Samaritans were the discriminated group looked down upon by the Pharisees. Now, I fully believe that Jesus would have told them marriage is between a man and a woman. While these two can marry in the eyes of the laws of the land, their reward will only be on Earth, never in Heaven. God will never recognize their union as Holy Matrimony. That aside, I find discriminating against somebody because of their level of sin that we don't like to be abhorrent and odious.

To stand with this man is to stand with the Pharisees.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/08/supreme-courts-masterpiece-ruling-not-victory-despite-headlines-column/676566002/

acts4him

11 months ago

Like others you miss the point. Service was not refused, the request for specific "speech" and a requirement to follow a specific behavior were what were requested to not respond. It is the request to participate in their sin that was refused.

Jesus simply gave freely available water as a an analogy to teach her and did not participate with her in propagating her sin.

More notably, Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners, but he didn't speak in support of their robbery and behaviors.

Ken Roche

11 months ago

Those who 'DEMAND' the right to say whatever they want against those who wish to live by their faith, SHOUT their contempt. Those of true faith will gently ask to be exempt from supply and in a free world, that's exactly as it should be.

Ruby Guerra

11 months ago

"Thank You Father for Your Message to all of us, through Jack Philip's vindication." It has come at a very high price for him, his family and his business....But of course it would be costly; because Mr. Philip's follows the "footprints" of His Lord and Savior.... who gave His life to make ALL men free! Free to chose right from wrong, free to be a Christian with Christian values, Free to love our enemies too!

My prayers have been with you Mr. Philip and with all the others that will follow in these same "footprints"....there will be many more to come before we rest, many more before we sleep!

God loves us sinners, He does, however, hates our sins!

Anonymous

11 months ago

It's very simple. If this baker cannot follow anti-discrimination law, he's not fit to run a public business. Relgious people don't get special rights to discriminate against other Americans -- they have to follow the law like everyone else.

And, no, selling a cake is not participating in a wedding. Did anyone here send a wedding invitation to their caterer?

Jennifer Razzouk

11 months ago

Hi there. I think what’s at stake is freedom of choice, for any person, religious or not. Freedom to choose who we speak to, vote for, or who we marry. When those boundaries are breached whether it is in the public sector or private, we lose self. You should be able to tell me no on any subject to keep you your self identity in tact. I should be able to do the same. Maybe the the law is wrong.

Linda Cebrian

11 months ago

I disagree. A business is still a private enterprise. Even though it may be open to the public, that does not guarantee that services ought to be rendered.

It's time for Big Sodomy to start practicing tolerance of their own rather than purpose to make an example of bakers, florists, photographers, printers, etc. who don't care to give tacit approval to homosexuality.

Suppose a customer went into a print shop and wanted to order T-shirts with "Straight Pride" emblazoned on the front for a demonstration in support of traditional marriage. The owner of the print shop turns down the order since he is homosexual and would feel conflicted working on such as assignment. Should the weight of government be sicced on him, too?

Kris Collino

11 months ago

That all sounds good until a radical muslim or Nazi shows up to ask an LBGTQ baker to design a cake that says something they strongly oppose

or is against their own religious beliefs. I would hope they'd have the freedom to refer them out.

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Walter Lutes

11 months ago

Noone should be discriminated against. Hopefully one day he will have the strength to stand behind what he believes and not hide, but we will still love him and Jesus still loves him.

NPoling

11 months ago

He serves everyone with his generic baked goods, however he has freedom to reject messages on cakes. Supreme Court of the land overwhelmingly agreed.

Kelly Nealis

11 months ago

The gay couple cannot bully or force anyone to participate in their wedding against sincerely held religious beliefs.

No one, not the gay couple and certainly not the government, can compel speech or actions. This is what the first amendment is all about.

Unless you would rather live in a communist or fascist country, where the government tells you how to think and act, and forces this on you. This is what the gay couple were hoping for, to use the government as a weapon.

Good thing for ALL Americans that the supreme court ruled correctly in this case.

Good for Jack Phillips for standing up for his first amendment rights, and good for our supreme court for not allowing the government to interfere where it has no authority, and for rightly condemning Colorado's courts for hostility towards religion.

Good day for America!

Anonymous

11 months ago

Oh go home. This was never an issue in the 1st place until the stupid decade came along & the worst decade I've seen at that. I guess things are looking up now that you know who is out of power.

Anonymous

11 months ago

How is this any different from the gay NM hairdresser who refused to cut the conservative Governor's hair because of her conservative views? Either both should be forced to serve or both should be free to refuse service. Freedom is the better option.

The cake baker wouldn't be participating in the "wedding" ceremony, but would in fact be participating in the reception celebration of this "wedding" by providing the wedding cake. This is considered endorsement. Consider the advertising some businesses use, "Let us help you celebrate your special day.". When George Bush Sr. was an official witness at a "same-sex wedding" it was considered by many as an endorsement of same-sex marriage, even though he had previously opposed it during his political career. Attendance is even considered endorsement.

The end goal of some is affirmation and endorsement for same-sex marriage by all, whether by choice or force. That is not tolerant and that is not freedom. I'm glad that not everyone supports that goal, regardless of his/her personal views.

Anonymous

11 months ago

Refusing to design clothing for the First Lady

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service

No Outside Food/Beverages allowed

Restroom for Paying Customers Only

...plus many others at the discretion of the shop owners of whom the government did not give the money to fund nor put in an ounce of work to get going. God Bless America, it's freedoms, and the privilege to be a small business owner making decisions which honor the Lord from whom *everything* - all resources, gifts, talents, and the land upon which we live comes from.

acts4him

11 months ago

When the VOTERS are given the chance to decide on these so-called "laws", then we will begin to consider them valid. Most are the result of commissions or committees and not representative of the constituency, knowing that they would never pass, unlike REAL "rights" issues. Protections from abuse, I understand. Targeting of non-essential services is ridiculous.

Case in point the ones who are coming against a true law that is about to take effect, I wish I could remember the context, but again it is some artist or other business owner whose "business" would be in jeopardy, i.e. Targeted.

Anonymous

11 months ago

Thank you to all those who chose to support The Masterpiece Bake Shop by showing up. We need more Christians to stand up if our rights are going to be protected.

Diane Hordyk

11 months ago

Nicely done, kindness shown, without compromising beliefs.

Diane

Susan F

11 months ago

Great video and great support!!!

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