(October 24, 2016 at 3:03 pm)ukatheist Wrote:(October 24, 2016 at 2:59 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: That's not what I'm saying and you are avoiding the logical consequences of your position. You are saying that a business that produces custom messages must by force of law speak, write, or draw any message requested by any kind of customer regardless of whether the business owner strongly objects to the content of that message.Yes, if the basis for refusal is based on a protected characteristic.
Who qualifies as a legally protected class is a political determination. In a free country people are allowed to hold and express controversial, stupid, and offensive positions so long as they do not incite violence, commit fraud,, liable, prompt immediate danger or violate community standards of decency.
