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Do you have a right to not bake a cake for someone? Or the right to not be discriminated against by cake bakers? That's the issue at hand in a Colorado discrimination claim.
If the baker can not follow the laws of the state he is doing business in, then he should not be in business.
Unconstitutional laws need not be followed.
Government has no constitutional authorization to dictate to business who they must do business with.
06-07-2013, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Bulldogdad
The baker should have the right to do business with whomever the baker chooses and let the free maket decide.
Agreed.
If someone doesn't want to sell me a cake, then I'd prefer that they just tell me that. That way I can go somewhere else and avoid giving my money to some bigot.
Go to another bakery and post in FB, yelp, Linkedin, and the hundred other social postings. The bigoted "christian" may find out money is green no matter who spends it.
If someone doesn't want to sell me a cake, then I'd prefer that they just tell me that. That way I can go somewhere else and avoid giving my money to some bigot.
Just because they dont like you doesnt make them a bigot, it just means they dont want to support you. I routinely tell jesus freaks to f the f'ing hell off when they ask me for money.
I think the baker needs to go with this defense. I did not refuse to bake a cake because of their sexual orientation, I refused based on my religious beliefs, therefore the couple was not discriminated against. I did not deny the couple the ability to get a wedding cake (they could get one from another baker) I simply denied myself a profit and some future customers.
How did the baker know the cake was for a gay wedding?
I'm assuming it was obvious from this portion of the article:
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David Mullins and Charlie Craig went into Masterpiece Cakeshop hoping to get a wedding cake to celebrate their recent marriage in Massachusetts
They probably walked in, acted all gay, and the owner figured it out.
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