(October 3, 2017 at 8:36 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: In an ideal political climate, bigoted bakers should be allowed to do whatever they want and let their businesses fail because the invisible hand of the public rejects their bigoted bullshit.
Alas, we don't live in that ideal political climate. That invisible hand does not exist and all that results is we end up further Balkanized than we already are.
+1
A boycott of the bigoted baker (I
alliteration) would be the most efficient way to solve this particular case.The Montgomery bus boycott back in the 1950s (started when Rosa Parks famously sat up front) led to a SCOTUS decision that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
Alas, we Americans are too apathetic, lazy or both to get involved in boycotts. Clicking "like" on Facebook is what passes for activism these days.
I won't eat at Chick Fil A because of the owner's bigoted views on my LGBT friends and I don't shop at Hobby Lobby because they insist on monitoring my (and all women's) vagina and uterus. I also won't eat at a local ice cream parlor chain because the owners proudly contributed to the anti-gay marriage initiative in our state a few years ago.
-Teresa
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