Rick Santorum: Baker That Would Not Make A Cake For Same-Sex Wedding Sent To ‘Re-Education Camp’

Former Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA) said during a radio interview this week that business owners who won’t provide services for same-sex couples are being sent to ‘re-education camps,‘ reported the Huffington Post.

“You now see situations with bakers and florists and photographers who are being forced to provide services for same-sex weddings or get fined, lose their business,” Santorum said on the American Family Association’s “Focal Point” radio show on Monday. “In the case of Colorado, there was a Colorado case recently where someone had to go to a re-education camp if you will. And the amazing thing is that in Colorado gay marriage isn’t even legal.”

Santorum was speaking about the case of Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, CO who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious grounds.

“They are fighting, they are fighting, they are not backing away, they are coming at us,” Santorum said. He urged conservatives to emulate the “relentlessness of liberal lawyer organizations” fighting for LBGT rights.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled in May that Phillips violated the state’s anti-discrimination clause. The commission determined the bakery needed to change it’s policies and have his staff attend training sessions. For two years Phillips is required to submit quarterly reports to the commission to confirm that he has not turned away customers based on their sexual orientation reported Fox News.

“We would close down the bakery before we would complicate our beliefs,” Phillips, a devout Christian said. He has since decided to stop making cakes altogether.

Phillips said he would be happy to make cakes for a gay person’s birthday, but he believes making a wedding cake would equate to participating in the ceremony.

“My issue is that I don’t want to be forced to participate in a same-sex wedding,” he said.

Nicolle Martin, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, disagreed with commission’s ruling and said they are considering an appeal.

“They are turning people of faith into religious refugees,” Martin said. “Is this the society that we want to live in- where people of faith are driven out of business?”

Commission Chairwoman Katina Banks said “You can have your beliefs, but you can’t hurt other people at the same time.”

ACLU attorney Amanda Goad said in a statement “Religious freedom is undoubtedly an important American value, but so is the right to be treated equally under the law free from discrimination.”

As previously reported in The inquisitr, Santorum is a possible candidate for President in 2016.

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