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Christian baker Jack Phillips scored a major victory for religious freedom advocates on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission discriminated against his religious beliefs. But there were some like CBS’s Stephan Colbert, who declared on The Late Show that night, that it was “a bad day for gay rights in America and also for cake rights.”
“[T]his morning the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same-sex couple. That is tough news,” Colbert, the supposed bible teacher, bemoaned to his liberal crowd. “But to lighten the blow the supreme court did send the gay couple a lovely cake,” he added as an image of a cake in the shape of a middle finger flashed on the screen.
Of course, Colbert omitted the part where liberal Justices Stephan Breyer and Elena Kagan joined with the conservatives to form the majority, with the opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. But that didn’t stop him from smearing Phillips as a radical “fundamentalist-Christian” who would have a place in the “Museum of Intolerance.”
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