RE: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Round 2
August 20, 2018 at 12:56 pm
The case is a tricky one for sure. Ideally people shouldn’t be forced to do things they find immoral, however at the same time if someone provides a service, society has an expectation that the service should apply to everyone equally.
Baking a wedding cake for a hetero marriage is the same as baking a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage, at least according to the law and basic baking knowledge. If the baker offers the cake to one person but not another because of some moral opposition, it seems to me that this should be discrimination.
One could argue that the gay couple go somewhere else, which is a solution if they have another place to go to, but one could imagine a small isolated town with only one baker, what do they do then? Go without cake because the baker is a bigot?
I find some nice parallels with the justice system. The constitution gives defendants the right to a lawyer, even if they cannot pay. What would happen if public defenders could refuse to defend a person on moral grounds?
C_L, do you think businesses should be able to refuse to bake, say, a Kwanza cake if they have moral objections to the celebration of religions other than Christianity?
Baking a wedding cake for a hetero marriage is the same as baking a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage, at least according to the law and basic baking knowledge. If the baker offers the cake to one person but not another because of some moral opposition, it seems to me that this should be discrimination.
One could argue that the gay couple go somewhere else, which is a solution if they have another place to go to, but one could imagine a small isolated town with only one baker, what do they do then? Go without cake because the baker is a bigot?
I find some nice parallels with the justice system. The constitution gives defendants the right to a lawyer, even if they cannot pay. What would happen if public defenders could refuse to defend a person on moral grounds?
C_L, do you think businesses should be able to refuse to bake, say, a Kwanza cake if they have moral objections to the celebration of religions other than Christianity?
