RE: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Round 2
August 20, 2018 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2018 at 3:32 pm by Tiberius.)
(August 20, 2018 at 3:26 pm)U Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 20, 2018 at 2:34 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Are there any limits? If so, what are they?
Should a white racist baker be able to refuse a cake to black people, celebrating their daughter’s graduation, because he doesn’t believe in the “education of lesser races”?
The fundamental problem here seems to be equating speech with symbolism. Baking a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding doesn’t mean the baker supports the concept. A wedding cake is a wedding cake.
If a hetero couple request a cake from the baker, and then after receiving it give it to their gay friends, who were actually getting married, does that mean the baker now supports gay marriage? Is what the couple did wrong?
Hmm, I don't know... I'm not sure if that would fly as being something that is against the event itself rather than against the person, which should be the only "limit" in my opinion. There is no fundamental difference between a black person graduating and a white person graduating. Since it is only an issue of skin color, it sounds like a case where the Baker is against the person themselves, and not the event.
But...there’s no fundamental difference between a same-sex wedding and a hetero wedding either. It’s only an issue of the sex of the partners.
What if the baker’s religion told him that graduation ceremonies for blacks were against God? Does that change the issue for you?
I’m trying to understand what difference there is. At some point in your mind it becomes not ok. What is the differentiator?
