Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Baker

[Neo-Scholastic]

In 50 years, the people on the wrong side of this will be looked at the same way as the people who got upset when Rosa Parks sat at the front of the bus.

Rosa Parks defied government imposed restrictions on individual liberty by Southern Democrats. The defense of liberty on which this country was founded means freedom from government interference. Had the court decided against the baker, it would have granted the use of governmental power to interfere with a free enterprise exchange between two parties by siding with one party to threaten the other party to perform labor against his will. Most people believe that being forced to work against one's will is form of slavery.

While you may believe that in this instance the use of state power serves a noble cause, the larger issue is whether government power is ever justified to force people to perform work against their will in service of others. It should be noted that the baker's refusal to be the servant of the plaintiffs in no way restricted the liberties of the plaintiffs.