Watch – Sarah Sanders says Trump believes shops should be able to display anti-gay signs
The Arkansas Republican governor has joined in with other states outlawing trans people from using same-sex spaces. (Win McNamee/Getty)
Donald Trump would have no problem with businesses displaying anti-gay signs, according to his press secretary.
At today’s White House press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about whether shops should be able to display the signs, in relation to the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
“”The lawyer for the solicitor general’s office for the administration said today in the Supreme Court if it would be legal, possible for a baker to put a sign in his window saying we don’t bake cakes for gay weddings,” Michael Shear, from The New York Times, asked.
“Does the president agree that that would be OK?”
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Sanders replied without hesitation.
“The president certainly supports religious liberty and that’s something he talked about during the campaign and has upheld since taking office,” she said.
She was then pressed on how that would apply to the specifics of signs explicitly denying service to LGBT people.
“I believe that would include that,” she said.
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In front of the Supreme Court, Trump’s Solicitor General Noel Francisco said he believed businesses should be able to show ‘we do not serve gay couples’ signs.
He compared it to an African American having to sculpt a cross for a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Jack Phillips
The case revolves around Jack Phillips of Colorado’s Masterpiece Cakeshop, who launched a legal challenge to Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws after refusing to serve gay couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig.
The baker refused to make a cake for the couple after he found out they were celebrating their wedding, and continues to insist his religion requires discrimination against gay people.
“We’ve been saying all along that the Masterpiece Cakeshop case is not about cake or religious freedom,” said GLAAD.
“It’s about anti-LGBTQ discrimination, plain and simple,”
Watch the clip below.
.@PressSec says that @realDonaldTrump's support of "religious liberty" would include a baker putting a sign in the window saying, "We don't bake cakes for gay weddings" #MasterpieceCakeshop pic.twitter.com/BES376f2V8
— GLAAD (@glaad) December 5, 2017
