If $135,000 seems like a lot just for emotional damages, it is worth noting that the baker did not just refuse them service. She also published the couple’s names and home address on the Internet and encouraged people to harass them. So there was much more emotional damage than just refusing them service.

…and this is why Azucar Bakery in Denver did not have to write homophobic shit on the cakes they baked. They were perfectly willing to sell jerkwad two bible-shaped cakes, but they wouldn’t do the writing for him. they were willing to serve him and even sell him the decorating bags and tips so he could write his hate…

For any who think this is a First Amendment issue:

Bill Maher irritates the fuck out of me. Him being an anti-vaxxer just makes it worse.

They just don’t want to share anything. Not rights, not healthcare, not economic power. Even if they don’t have/want it. They don’t want people they view as unworthy to have it either. They’re only interested in protecting and upholding their own way of life/ideals even if it contradicts with the bible itself.

When they say religious liberties, they mean something very specific. They mean the legal right to discriminate against gay people in housing, employment, and commerce. We might be able to get married, but they are still going to fight to keep us second class citizens. The war is not over. Gay marriage was just one…

To be more specific, the patriarchy hurts men and boys a relatively small amount, while benefitting men a huge amount, and hurts women and girls a huge amount.

Reason #2863 I’m single in my early 40s: I don’t play this game with people. I don’t ego stroke the fragile men. I will not play dumb, I will not pretend I can’t change my own flat tire, and I will never say in a breathy voice, “Ohhhhhh, your arms are soooo biiiggggg....” No. Because people who need that in order to…

Masculinity continues to be extremely fragile, news at 11

I think a LOT of bears are going to have a good time this weekend.

My cats freeze in terror if they get outside of my house.

Look at this screengrab...This cat is just badass!

I can see my house!

I don’t think “Checking for sleeping kittehs inside the wings” is covered in any manual or checklist...

Yeah I’m not always the biggest T Swift fan but she seems completely right here. If Apple wants to lure people in with a free trial, which is a totally standard marketing move, it’s on them to pay for it as part of their promotion costs. A hotel offering a free night’s stay to new visitors wouldn’t be able to forgo…

I grew up black and Christian and you’ve never met a more welcoming people than old school style Black church-going folks. They are incredible.

She looks terrific, and that complicated, intense expression on her face really says it all about what this congregation must be going through.

Glad they were able to reopen the church and people could come back to worship. That church has been through so much but is still going.

Actually, no: the two things are independent of each other. No one is under any obligation to forgive anyone else, nor does forgiving mean saying “please, come back and shit all over my life again.”