Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
So glad these two assclowns did not win. They should have just taken their request to another bakery.
This case is not yet decided. And they did take their request to another bakery. And they reported the baker to the State-level equivalent of the EEOC, as was well within their rights to do.
If a religious business owner can be forced by the state to create something that goes against his/her deeply held religious beliefs then the first amendment is castrated, in my opinion.
The first amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
we shall see what the sc says.
The state did not force him to sell wedding cakes, the state only said that if he did choose to offer that service, then he can not discriminate.
Bakers should have the right to refuse decorations they find offensive. Should a Jewish baker be required to bake a cake with a swastika design? Or a Muslim baker be required to bake a cake with a Christian cross? The baker in CO was not refusing to bake a cake for the gay couple. Just a particular type of cake (wedding cake).
The baker never discussed the decorations of the cake, he refused service before getting to that point.
Not true. What if the demand was to put Lance and Stephen on top of the cake? The business owner could and would have sold them an unthemed cake and the "couple" could have installed the the miniature figures atop the cake.
Does an artist have to paint a picture of two gay men kissing? I thought not.
This bizarre legal scharade is over!
And yet the baker refused to make them ANY wedding cake BEFORE the decorations were discussed.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
