Democrats in Minnesota and nationwide are switching into enforcement mode.
The legal persecution of Jack Phillips continues…
Phillips’s public expression of his faith had placed a target on his back, and the narrow Supreme Court ruling in his favor had the two-pronged effect of further inflaming activists while simultaneously depriving the baker of decisive, precedent-setting protections against their agitations. In 2017, “the very day the Supreme Court agreed to hear Phillips’s case, Autumn Scardina, a transgender activist in Denver, called Masterpiece Cakeshop and requested a custom cake with a blue exterior and a pink interior to symbolize a gender transition,” David Harsanyi wrote. Scardina was allegedly a member of the Church of Satan, and court documents alleged the activist had also sought Phillips’s services for charming depictions such as a cake celebrating Satan’s birthday, which would feature “a large figure of Satan, licking a 9″ black Dildo,” with the requirement that the dildo must necessarily be “an actual working model that can be turned on before we unveil the cake.”
Phillips, of course, politely declined Scardina’s requests. Scardina, of course, proceeded to file a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The commission, of course, ruled against Phillips. In August 2018, two months after his initial Masterpiece Cakeshop victory, Phillips was back in court.
Last week, a panel for the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld an earlier court decision requiring Phillips to bake Scardina’s transgender cake. No surprise there — the same court had also upheld the state’s original injunction demanding that Phillips bake the same-sex wedding cake. What should be abundantly clear at this point is that “civil rights,” in this context, are more about power — wielded against disfavored groups, and in favor of privileged ones — than any neutral conception of legal protection. Even as it ruled against Phillips, the Commission upheld the right of bakers to refuse to make a Bible-shaped cake inscribed with the message: “Homosexuality is a detestable sin. Leviticus 18:2.” This double standard is a feature, not a bug, of how these bureaucracies function. As NR’s editors noted today, the practical effect of the Left’s weaponization of anti-discrimination laws “is to demand that the faithful kneel before favored identity groups.”
…and is so hamfistedly symbolic that a sophomore-year English prof would send it back for rewrite if it were fiction.
The process is the punishment.
Of course, the MNDFL does its darnedest to make it difficult, even impossible, to run as a Republican. I’ve heard more than one GOP legislator who’d been pondering running for higher office without having spent their teens and twenties as cloistered monks say they were going to demur on running , because the DFL’s opposition research crowd would make not only their lives, but their family’s, a living hell.
WIth that in mind?
Keith Ellison is going to show Scott Jenson that running against the DFL has consequences. Via David Strom:
…the Attorney General of the State of Minnesota has taken it upon himself to step up the harassment of Dr. Jensen based upon already adjudicated charges that should never have been brought in the first place. It is disgraceful and can be explained by nothing other than politics.
It is a political hit job–punishment not for what he has done, or even said, but for who he is. A well-respected Republican who dared to challenge Tim Walz in the last election. They are sending a message that taking on the Democrat establishment will ruin your life.
I said above that the process is the punishment. At some point, the determination that he may continue to conduct medicine will not exonerate him, nor return the time, effort, and money that he has to spend to defend himself. They have turned him into a doctor who has faced 5 investigations. How many potential patients will avoid him for that alone? Countless.
No matter how bogus the charges are, the punishment has taken place simply by making the charges and forcing him to defend himself.
Politics ain’t beanbag, and it is usual for people in the midst of campaigns to hurl charges at each other. But this goes way beyond that. They are mobilizing all the power of the state to destroy Jensen.
This is what tyranny looks like in America.
When all your oppoonent cares about is gaining and consolidating power, “democracy” is just a decorative verbal sprig of parsley on top of whatever horrors our new Leninists are hoiking up.
This post explains in a nutshell why Walz, Ellison, & Co. are pushing so hard for tax increases this legislative session. They intend that the process is the punishment should become an ongoing bureaucratic process not just a series of one-off activities as it currently is. Remember bureaucracy costs money.
Retrying items that are already adjudicated? Was Ellison asleep or absent in law school when they discussed the prohibition of double jeopardy?
I’d like to encourage Dr. Jenson to relocate his practice to the beautiful state of South Carolina, where he can apply his skill to saving the lives of civilized people.
For those that want to “do something”, Jensen is taking donations to fight this harassment here.
https://drscottjensen.com/
Regarding Scardina’s lawsuits, I have to wonder if anyone on the left cares about the obvious racism of his request for the cake featuring Satan fellating a giant black sex toy. Does Lili von Schtupp need to explain this to people?
For that matter, it strikes me that, if I approached the teens working at the cake counters at Hy-Vee or Wal-Mart and said “that’s what I want”, I would rightly be investigated for corrupting minors. Are the Democrats that invested in the “alphabet” agenda that they can’t say “if you go to an artist and ask them to do something they consider disgusting, they have the right to say no.”? Really?
There may be a boot on she necks, but it won’t be Zelensky’s spiked S&M boot…
“Russia rains rockets on Kramatorsk as war anniversary approaches”
Seems to me, Bikebubble and his pet nitwit, rAT were telling us the Ruskies had run out of missiles about 6 months ago.
Someone forgot to tell the Ruskies! 😂
Could this have something to do with it?
“In 2022 Russia kept the economic show on the road
The world’s ninth-largest economy did a lot better than expected” 🧐
What does the future hold?
“Feb 1 (Reuters) – The situation on the front lines in eastern Ukraine has become tougher as Russian forces step up an offensive, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday in another gloomy military assessment from Kyiv.
Russia has gained momentum on the battlefield, announcing advances north and south of the city of Bakhmut, its main target for months. Locations of reported fighting clearly indicate incremental Russian advances.”
Hmmm. Seems I remember someone suggesting the Ruskies would concentrate on firming up their control of the Donna’s land bridge, since that was clearly their ultimate objective….oh yeah, that was me.
If we’re lucky, this will be over before Peso Joe sends M1A tanks for the Ruskies to dismantle and reverse engineer.
Donna’s = Donbas… Frickin autocorrect
As I said a year ago, Putin isn’t gonna lose this thing.
This is shaping up to be a bruising defeat for NATO’s defense of buttseks, degeneracy, money laundering, child grooming and trafficking. But who knows…maybe Admiral Levine can use xer prodigious tactical skills to pull off a miracle!
Lmao 😂🤣
If the MN GOP was a serious political party, they would be researching possible criminal prosecutions that a GOP AG could bring against Ellison the next time they gain the office.
Not responding in kind to politically driven prosecution just invites more of the same.
^ threadjack.
(threadjack on Swiftee’s part, that is)
Benito Putina Delenda Est!
🤣😂👋
Watch this video and consider that the pro-trans people chose the person to testify that would best represent the trans community. They didn’t choose a Blair White, they chose this monster.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1621267224374792192
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What the sam hill is going on in MN. Do we need to shut down the state to find out what the hell is going on? Abortion on demand up until birth and after, net zero by 2040, tyrants going after the opposition, tax increases with a budget surplus and no effective opposition in sight. Mn has cast its besotted eyes on dreamy California and is in love.
Woman regrets transitioning her child:
https://youtu.be/dBRJorDjG88
This is beyond parody.
Woman & lesbian partner’s young son declares that he is really a girl! Much joy and celebration! Then, a few months later, second young son announces that he, too, is a girl!
At this point mom figures something is up, encounters resistance from officials when she insists that both her sons can’t be trans. What are the odds?
Also noticeable for the concealed woman’s accent, which I would call “Upper Midwest personnel department” English.
UMMP: seems that they’ve just indicated that trans ideation is culturally conditioned. One less letter in the alphabet, we might say, at least.
I was more interested in the woman’s accent than whatever she had to say about her transgender kids. It wasn’t an “uff da” accent, but it still had tell tale upper Midwesternisms. “Been” was pronounced “bin,” while “being” (as in “human being”) was pronounced “bing.” This is as good as an advertisement for “BA from a Midwestern University business school.”