RE: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Round 2
August 20, 2018 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2018 at 12:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 20, 2018 at 12:38 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I can see both sides of the argument, and have usually leaned towards the right of a bakery owner to not create a cake for an event that he/she does not morally agree with.
This is an extreme example, but the way I see it is, if I owned my own bakery and someone came in and asked me to make a cake with a swastika on it and write "White Supremacy" on it, for some sort of rally they were having, I would absolutely refuse. And I would hope I wouldn't be legally forced by the government to do it.
I'm willing to discuss this and have my mind changed, though, if someone brings up a good point.
Nazis aren't a protected class, nor are white supremacists. That would be a disgusting inversion of the purpose of antidiscrimination laws and..in point of fact, the government wouldn't and couldn't make you bake the cake. The government can't even force this particular bigoted baker to bake the cake. They can only fine him for deciding his deeply held christian bigotry was worth it. This was tried and shot down right at the start. OFC, all of this was tried and shot down last time..too.
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