RE: The Cake Case Revisited
October 5, 2017 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2017 at 2:48 pm by Mister Agenda.)
chimp3 Wrote:I support the right of a black cake maker to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a skinhead couple that want a "pure" white cake with inscription: "White Wedding"!
Bakers in America already have the right to refuse to write messages that they don't agree with on cakes. In every state, I think.
Deciding in favor of the bakers would basically be striking down the portion of their state's public accommodation laws that protect sexual orientation as well as race and religion. If the court goes that route, I predict that someone from the Satanic Temple will be interested in getting a wedding cake from them. If the bakers refuse to bake it, they'll find themselves in court again, only this time the court will have to strike down the public accommodation laws in every state that protects religious minority. The law that keeps bakers from refusing to make cakes for Jews and Hindus. And if they're struck down for bakeries, why not restaurants and hotels?
The only way the free market can handle this sort of thing is if the business has to put up a sign that you can see before you enter of who they refuse to serve. People have a reasonable expectation in places of public accommodation to be treated as customers, not examples of their race, religion, sex, or orientation.
