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Persuasive Essay On Wedding Cake

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These days, people can get fired up about the littlest things. Stories buzz around gaining controversy faster than ever before thanks to social media. Lately, everyone squaring up to fight over a cake. A cake? Yes. A wedding cake, actually. In 2012, A Colorado baker by the name of Jack Phillips turned away a gay couple requesting a cake for their wedding. At the time, gay marriage was not yet legalized in Colorado. The couple, David Mullins and Charlie Craig, were inflamed and embarrassed. Recently, the case has made its way through the court system to the Supreme Court. Philips stands behind his decision that started the case, claiming that making a cake for the couple would go against his Christian religion. Furthermore, he refuses to make Halloween cakes in general for the same reason. In a personal account from him on CNN 10, he states that he offered them any cake in the shop, except a wedding cake.Philips doesn’t believe that he discriminated against the sexual orientation of Mullins and Craig. Instead, Philips backs his argument behind his first amendment rights. The First Amendment of the Constitution states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The key part of the amendment states that the government grants the freedom of religion and speech to its people. This means that its people are free to worship and practice religion however they should choose, along with express themselves how they should choose whether it be verbally or artistically. Mullins and Craig feel rather different. In the story of conflict recalled by both Philips and the couple, Mullins and Craig had just sat down at the wedding table and begun to flip through the booklet when Philips entered the picture. He asked them who the cake was for, and they replied for themselves. Philips turned them away right after. This provides justification to Mullins and Craigs belief that they were discriminated against for being who they are. 25 years ago, the voters of Colorado pushed for an Amendment 2 that

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