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Re: Colorado Judge: Bakery Owner discriminated against gay couple [W:123]
Yes they are being forced to do business even though it goes against their moral beliefs. What good is it to have the rights freedom of religion and property if you are not permitted to practice them? These laws only apply to 21 states. That still leaves 29 states where people can move where such laws do not exist or stay where they are and find ways around them or get active and fight to overturn them. The federal law does not prohibit discrimination by sexual orientation.
No. What they said was that if you are selling cakes to the public then you must do so to all of the public. You cannot use race, religion, ethnicity, gender or gender preference as the basis to refuse service to some customers. You cannot say, sorry we do not serve (insert any subset of the public) - your kind must shop elsewhere.
Yes they are being forced to do business even though it goes against their moral beliefs. What good is it to have the rights freedom of religion and property if you are not permitted to practice them? These laws only apply to 21 states. That still leaves 29 states where people can move where such laws do not exist or stay where they are and find ways around them or get active and fight to overturn them. The federal law does not prohibit discrimination by sexual orientation.