(June 4, 2018 at 7:36 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:(June 4, 2018 at 11:30 am)Tiberius Wrote: Apparently the ruling was more about the treatment of the baker by the courts rather than actual discrimination. SCOTUS didn’t think Colorado gave him a fair trial, which is why the decision was 7-2 and not 5-4. Their decision actually had little to do with gay rights or selling a cake, it seems:Which means the broader question has yet to be answered
No. It was answered. Right in the article.
Quote:Kennedy acknowledged that business owners generally cannot deny equal access to goods and services under a neutral public accommodations law. Otherwise, he said, "a long list of persons who provide goods and services for marriages and weddings might refuse to do so for gay persons, thus resulting in a community-wide stigma inconsistent with the history and dynamics of civil rights laws."
Where states have enacted anti-discrimination laws they can be enforced. The problem is all the redneck, jesus-freak, asshole, deplorable states which would rather amputate their own balls with a broken bottle than pass anti-discrimination laws.