Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert appears to have sided (surprise, surprise), with a Colorado baker who has spent years fighting to be able to discriminate against LGBTQ customers.
Jack Phillips won a partial Supreme Court victory a decade ago for his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
A trans customer then asked him to make a cake celebrating someone’s transition. He again refused and was subsequently found guilty of violating Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws.
Phillips returned to court this week to challenge that ruling.
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Boebert, who represents Colorado’s 3rd district, retweeted a news story about Phililips’ court battles. She sympathetically commented, “Will they ever leave this man alone?”
Will they ever leave this man alone? https://t.co/h7rYuaV5KE
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) October 6, 2022
Lauren Boebert’s bad week
That Boebert, a devout Christian, should side with Phillips is not surprising. However, her tweet is noteworthy for another reason.
Many poltical observers assumed Boebert to be a sure bet to win re-election in the midterms this November. However, a new poll earlier this week showed her Democratic challenger, Adam Frisch, just two percentage points behind her (45% to her 47%). With a 3% margin of error, it means Boebert faces potential defeat in a month’s time.
Related: Bad news for Lauren Boebert and her husband
Suddenly, Boebert’s social media postings have started banging on about the wonders of Colorado and issues facing the state’s population. Here she is cuddling up to a tarantula yesterday.
In southern Colorado:
Fall = Tarantulas 🕷 pic.twitter.com/CZ6itnFJ5Z
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) October 6, 2022
That election poll was not the only bad news Boebert received this week. According to NBC, she’s also facing a defamation lawsuit from the PAC American Muckrakers.
Based in North Carolina, the non-profit’s stated aim is “holding terrible politicians accountable.” It was the group involved with leaking photos and video of Madison Cawthorn earlier this year before the North Caroline Rep. lost his primary.
American Muckrakers issued several claims about Boebert earlier this year, which it said it gathered after interviewing former colleagues and acquaintances of the congresswoman.
These included saying she’d had two abortions and once had a profile on an escort website. Boebert called all the claims “completely baseless and disgusting.” American Muckrakers calls Boebert’s assertion that it is lying defamatory, prompting its legal action.
Related: Move over, Lauren Boebert! Colorado might send another LGBTQ-hating, QAnon nutjob to Congress!
Online, many were unimpressed by Boebert’s support for the baker.
Says the noise maker obsessed with Hunter
— Liberty & Justice (D) 😷🗽🌻 (@Dorathy_K) October 6, 2022
Will Boebert ever do her job?
— Theresa Enya Sarcastic Donley (@a06121988T) October 6, 2022
People who call him out for his bigotry are expressing their right to free speech. Isn’t that one of your core beliefs, or does free speech only apply to certain people?
— Francisco Vives (T.A.F.K.A. Paco Luís ♏ontaña)⚛ (@Franks2ndlife) October 6, 2022
Obey the law, dont discriminate against people and you wont have a problem
What if you walked into my shop + I refused to serve you solely bc you were a Christian ?
Pretty sure you would run off to court claiming discrimination – so whats good for the goose is good for the gander— The Naked Mole Rat (@aussieguy342) October 6, 2022
Neoprene
I live <5 miles from this dude's shop and had an anniversary cake made for my parental units just before the first lawsuit happened. This bigot makes awesome cakes and his cream cheese brownies are blessed by the LORD!
Man About Town
I didn’t know the star of “Hawaii Five-O” blessed brownies!
Cam
I LOVE it when the right wing troll account exposes it’s screenames.
Kinkslola
And what you put in your mouth matters to us why?
James
GET LOST HOMOPHOBE. CREEP.
jt1990
Here’s an idea: request a wedding cake, let the cake decorator assume it’s for a straight couple. Return later and say “thanks so much for making my gay wedding cake, but everyone said it tasted terrible.” Or, just find another bakery. Plenty of them who just want your money.
Doug
Neoprene”s post is totally fake. He’s another pseudo-Christian loser who trolls gay websites hoping to rile people up because he has absolutely nothing going in his life. Scroll on…
Mister P
The whack job is running on the pro-discrimination platform and defending another whack job who thinks that baking a cake for money is part of his religion.
Pgh bear
She is a fanatical Christian, not a devout one. She follows none of the precepts
carriefan62274
I hope you will reply to this she sounds like Margaret White who was Carrie White’s mother in the 1976 movie Carrie huh?????
Cam
Republicans are bigots, and Christianity in America is not a Trump cult.
Flamingo Falls
I don’t defend the baker, nor do I support the bigoted, Christo-fascist Lauren Boebert, but I have to wonder why anyone would want to patronize a business that doesn’t want their patronage. I refuse to patronize Chick-fil-a, Hobby Lobby, or any other anti-LGBTQ+ or pro-MAGA business. If they don’t support me, I’ll happily take my business — and spend my money — elsewhere,
CNY1983
im with you. ill go one step further and bad mouth them every chance i get. and for her to put her creepy 2 cents in makes his cream cheese brownies taste like shit.
carriefan62274
OK but I don’t know where I’d get latch hook kits Hobby Lobby and Walmart are the only ones who have them I should go to Walmart to get them huh???????…I hope you will reply to this
inbama
Twenty short years ago, some doctors in Mobile, Alabama refused to treat gay and lesbian patients.
Bakeries are the first step to go back to “separate but equal.”
I wouldn’t buy from them either, but we have to fight the ALL discrimination.
dbmcvey
Of course Lobobes is standing up for him.
Steve9999
Which one is the tarantula in the photo?
Doug
LOL!
carriefan62274
The one on the left
James
They should refuse to make boebert a cake BECAUSE SHE IS SO STUPID AND PATHETIC.
Jimmynj
I wonder if the homophobic, racist Boebert was ever denied service because she is an idiotic piece of trash. By the way, Lauren, if you were such a Christian, you wouldn’t have gotten knocked up in high school and had to drop out. And wouldn’t your baby daddy kept his pants zipped in a bowling alley? Just wondering.
fredk3
then she threw the tarantula in a web and small fly with Lady Liberty’s head started screaming “help me! help meee!”
johncp56
We pay these hateful morons to govern, she and the other ass hat MTG need to get schooled, legally!!
the backward hypocrisy of her rants, the newer clip of her say goverment does not run Religion, religion rules everyone including Goverment, WTF do these people have to read a rule book before allowd to get in this office, we have to work harder for a drivers card,