Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Baker

[Shell B]

See...these bakers don’t bother me. Why would any gay couple want to have bigots bake their wedding cake? This is a perfect way to tell them apart.

[Divinity]

See...these bakers don’t bother me. Why would any gay couple want to have bigots bake their wedding cake? This is a perfect way to tell them apart.

Why would any black person want to buy from any store that says "White's only"?

[Shell B]

See...these bakers don’t bother me. Why would any gay couple want to have bigots bake their wedding cake? This is a perfect way to tell them apart.

Why would any black person want to buy from any store that says "White's only"?

I know what you’re doing, but the same principal applies. I know it’s discrimination and society will deal with it as it sees fit, but I’m not bothered by assholes making themselves obvious. I wouldn’t buy from either business as a straight white person, so it lets me know who doesn’t deserve my business.

[polymath257]

Businesses should be free to refuse to serve anyone they choose. Likewise the public should be free to refuse to patronize those businesses.

So, were the lunch counter owners in the South during the 50's and 60's free to deny service to blacks?

[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.

[johan]

Businesses should be free to refuse to serve anyone they choose. Likewise the public should be free to refuse to patronize those businesses.

Your sentiments, such as they are, are simply not consistent with law.

Oh but they are consistent. You can refuse to serve anyone depending on the reason for your refusal. You cannot refuse to serve a woman because she's a woman. But you can refuse to serve a woman who shits on your floor. A sign painter can refuse to paint a sign for a hate group that says god hates fags. Doesn't mean the painter won't paint another sign for that group, just means he won't paint that sign. And there currently is not any law against that nor should there ever be.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Businesses should be free to refuse to serve anyone they choose. Likewise the public should be free to refuse to patronize those businesses.

Your sentiments, such as they are, are simply not consistent with law.

Not all laws are consistent with the principles of individual liberty.

[Angrboda]

Your sentiments, such as they are, are simply not consistent with law.

Not all laws are consistent with the principles of individual liberty.

And some of them are. But don't let me interrupt your parade of trivial inanity.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Businesses should be free to refuse to serve anyone they choose. Likewise the public should be free to refuse to patronize those businesses.

So, were the lunch counter owners in the South during the 50's and 60's free to deny service to blacks?

The marketplace in the South was distorted by prejudicial government restrictions on public facilities and businesses. It could be that the absence of state laws restricting the liberties of blacks and those who would serve them would have allowed the free market to properly favor businesses that served a wider clientele. But we will never know.

[The Grand Nudger]

Yeah, that damned government was making the south racist..its not like the government of the south was a refelction of our innate prejudice or something.  Now we'll never know if racists would have stopped being racists because free market!