The Morning Rant

293 The Masterpiece Cake guy is being targeted by a tranny lawyer that hates Christians. He requests really vile cakes then files complaints when the baker says no.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (JKNZq)

And this after SCOTUS ruled 7-2 in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner. Apparently, the tranny lawyer interpreted the narrow grounds upon which the case was decided as an invitation to relitigate. According to the wiki entry, the first attempt was dropped, a second suit was initiated last April, and I couldn't find further information.

But, having no legal training, there are some things I don't understand. In the first place, what does the tranny lawyer have to do to be declared a vexatious litigant? Maybe there has to be a lot more than 2 lawsuits. OK, I can sort of see this.

But my main question is, how does this case get off the ground to begin with? It seems to me that a judge with common sense could've ending this one back in 2012. Like this:

The gay guys show up in court with their lawyer, and the lawyer says to the judge: "Your honor, this cake shop doesn't want to sell my gay clients a wedding cake because they're gay."

Judge: "Well, why can't the gay guys buy a cake from some other cake shop?"

Lawyer: "Your Honor, that is scarcely the--"

Judge: "Aren't there other cake shops in town that would be more than happy to bake a wedding cake for a couple of gay guys?"

Lawyer: "Well, yes, Your Honor, but--"

Judge: "That's what I thought." ( *bangs gavel* ) "Case dismissed. Now get out of my court."

See how easy that would be? I suppose the gay guys might have a case if, somehow, Christians had an absolute lock on the custom wedding cake market in Colorado so that it was tough to find a decorator who *wasn't* a Christian. Because then they could claim some sort of "undue burden" was forced upon them that others didn't have to suffer. But Phillips' refusal to do a custom wedding cake for the gay guys neither broke their legs, nor picked their pockets. Meaning, where is the injury or damage? What it boils down to is that the gay guys sued Phillips because he hurt their feelings.

And this is where my lack of understanding of our legal system shows. This case is not really about the cake. Because if that's all the gay guys wanted, they would get in their car and drive a few hundred yards down the street to another bakery that would be happy to serve them, and that would be the end of it. I would think that, somewhere in all of these suits and countersuits there would be at least *one* judge who would ask some basic questions about why the litigants are in his courtroom. But no, everybody's arguing as if a custom wedding cake is some kind of basic human right.

Thus speaketh an untutored legal layman.

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And on a completely different note, if you're looking for something entertaining to watch on TV, I have a couple of Netflix recommendations:

1. Last year we watched Manhunt: Unabomber, about how the Unabomber was tracked down, which we both liked. I thought it was a one-off. But, I was wrong. Manhunt: Deadly Games is the new season, a 10-part series about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing and the subsequent controversy involving the security guard Richard Jewell and Eric Rudolph. It is a very well-told tale that doesn't turn any of the players on either side into caricatures, despite many opportunities. I mean, you have the FBI, the ATF, a party-hearty newspaper reporter, a lower-class security guard, rural militia men, and a malignant psychopath. Yet there's an impressive amount of nuance with each one. We were very pleasantly surprised.

2. The 8-part Swedish import Caliphate is an oddly constructed story with about 4 sub-plots in search of a main plot, yet it somehow works. The overarching theme is Islamic terrorism, and the action shifts between an ISIS bride in Raqqa, Syria who migrated from Sweden but is regretting her decision, a couple of second generation Muslim girls who are being recruited as ISIS brides and their conflicts with their assimilated parents, a couple of young, native-born Swedish brothers who have converted to Islam and want to be martyrs for Allah, and various Swedish anti-terrorist police who have caught wind of an impending attack on Swedish soil and are trying to determine the when-and-where details so they can stop it. It's very well-acted and suspenseful and there's some good plot twists. I'm actually surprised such a drama came out of Sweden, where I thought that the prevailing view was that anyone who didn't think that all immigration was just fine and dandy is an evil right-wing bigot so shut up. It's dubbed in English.

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