{"id":1704462,"date":"2022-10-20T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704462"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:34:31","slug":"im-begging-you-fetterman-urged-supporters-of-christian-cake-baker-not-to-vote-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-begging-you-fetterman-urged-supporters-of-christian-cake-baker-not-to-vote-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Begging You\u2019: Fetterman Urged Supporters of Christian Cake Baker Not to Vote for Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-begging-you-fetterman-urged-supporters-of-christian-cake-baker-not-to-vote-for-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704462&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">30 percent of Democrats oppose mandates to force bakeries to make same-sex wedding cakes<\/p>\n<p>    Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 October 20, 2022 3:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman begged people not to vote for him if they think bakers should be required to make cakes for same-sex weddings, a position that puts him at odds with many voters in his own party.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2020 interview, Fetterman rattled off a list of political stances on which he refused to waiver, including the release of people serving prison time for marijuana possession, the acceptance of Syrian refugees, and support for same-sex marraige. He also weighed in on the controversy over a Colorado bakery\u2019s refusal on religious grounds to design a cake for a same-sex wedding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think that two people can\u2019t love who they love\u2026or you think someone should be able to not bake someone a wedding cake,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RrkZxYr6y8c#t=27m15s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Fetterman, &#8220;I\u2019m begging you, vote for the other person, because it\u2019s not ever going to be me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s unwavering position would spell bad news for him should voters in swing-state Pennsylvania take his advice at the ballot box next month. According to a Pew Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/12\/05\/supreme-court-same-sex-wedding-cake-case-reflects-split-among-american-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> in 2017, Americans were evenly split on whether bakers should be required to make cakes for same-sex weddings. Thirty percent of Democrats and 71 percent of Republicans opposed the mandates, according to the poll. Fetterman\u2019s Republican opponent Mehmet Oz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/droz\/status\/1569378179462189060?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supports<\/a> same-sex marriage, but has not publicly weighed in on the wedding cake issue.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s views also put him at odds with some of the Supreme Court\u2019s liberal justices. By a 7-2 vote in 2018, the Court sided with Masterpiece Cakeshop in a case against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The Commission had sued to force shop owner Jack Phillips to design a cake for a same-sex wedding, but he refused to do so on religious grounds. Liberal justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan joined all of the conservative justices in support of Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman weighed in on the cake controversy days after his 2020 interview, referring to Phillips as an &#8220;asshole&#8221; on Twitter. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/1327197857061998599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that anyone who refuses to bake a cake for a gay marriage on religious grounds &#8220;may need a new religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phillips\u2019s legal drama has not gone away. A Colorado state judge fined Phillips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman begged people not to vote for him if they think bakers should be required to make cakes for same-sex weddings, a position that puts him at odds with many voters in his own party.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018I\u2019m Begging You\u2019: Fetterman Urged Supporters of Christian Cake Baker Not to Vote for Him appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1704466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}