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Re: Supreme Court rules for Colorado baker in same-sex wedding cake case
To bake a cake is to support the event at which the cake will be consumed? Yeah, ok.
Please provide your source.
That's the purpose of the AD laws that require bakers in CO to bake for people of all sexual orientations regardless of the source of the baker's discrimination. The 1A does not protect religious and other bigots from discriminating against protected classes of people.
The state wasn't "nailed" on anything. The CCRC discriminated against the baker. The law that the baker doesn't like still stands and still applies to him and his bakery.
*sigh*
You seriously do not know what you are talking about.
An artist can refuse to paint any painting he might find offensive.
a song writer can refuse to write a song that he might find offensive.
Creative expression has been ruled constitutional and protected by the 1A for decades in court after court ruling
no matter if the state or government finds that expression offensive or not.
No the Creator find certain types of marriage offensive.
see how dishonest you are?
he offered to sell them other stuff in the store he simply refused to make a wedding cake that would signal that he support
a marriage that he doesn't.
To bake a cake is to support the event at which the cake will be consumed? Yeah, ok.
just as a homosexual baker is free to not make a religious cake that they find offensive, and in fact they have declined to make
such cakes and it was found that they didn't discriminate.
Please provide your source.
therefore equal protection must apply.
That's the purpose of the AD laws that require bakers in CO to bake for people of all sexual orientations regardless of the source of the baker's discrimination. The 1A does not protect religious and other bigots from discriminating against protected classes of people.
which is one of the things the justices nailed the state on.
The state wasn't "nailed" on anything. The CCRC discriminated against the baker. The law that the baker doesn't like still stands and still applies to him and his bakery.
The court pushed for a more pluralist approach, noting both that “gay persons and gay couples cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth,” and that “[a]t the same time, the religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are protected views and in some instances protected forms of expression.”
The majority opinion not only left open the very distinct likelihood that custom-made wedding services with expressive functions would be protected under free speech doctrines, but also explicitly rejected blanket hostility of state actors to religious claims.
Symposium: And the winner is ? pluralism? - SCOTUSblog