Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Wedding Cake Case (thoughts, statistics, free speech)
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What is the objective analysis other than as I earlier explained to you? The SC overturns a minuscule percentage of cases decided by the 9th Circuit Court. The part I noticed you did NOT quote from my comment about that. Crafty! Hard to consider that "all the time" as you noted before. Right?
Just can't admit when you're wrong, even when obvious, can you...
What is the objective analysis other than as I earlier explained to you? The SC overturns a minuscule percentage of cases decided by the 9th Circuit Court.
Miniscule? No.
From 1999 to 2008, of Ninth Circuit Court rulings that were reviewed by the Supreme Court, 20% were affirmed, 19% were vacated, and 61% were reversed.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is asinine ,too. If somebody doesn't want to take my cash, someone with more sense will.
I suspect people who don't know much about the history of discrimination in this country are the ones who think this matter is trivial or "asinine," but to people who are the targets of discrimination, prejudiced against, groups of people who are so targeted because they are different from the rest, they are the ones that give these matters importance. In so doing, they also give these matters importance to the rest of us not so tolerant of prejudice and bigotry -- ignorance -- that leads to that sort of injustice, AKA people behaving badly.
That's your opinion, which you're entitled to, and are free to express if you wish. Just be aware that Religion is a Federally Protected Class under the Federal Civil Rights Act. LGBT status is not.
If anyone who has followed this thread even for awhile is not aware of these facts you keep repeating like a parrot, they can't read! We heard you already!
These people don't believe in the free market. Good argument but it's lost on them.
I believe in the free market, but I'm not a believer the free market works as well as we would like in all cases, much like I believe in modern medicine, but not as if I don't realize that modern medicine is without its serious short-comings too...
This is the argument that is lost with folks like you, but not most folks I don't think.
Race is subject to very strict scrutiny. But what if a black person wanted a cake made that said "we want dead cops. When do we want them? Now." Would a baker have to make that cake?
Racist alert!
Why suggest that's what a black person would want on their cake, of all things?!?
From 1999 to 2008, of Ninth Circuit Court rulings that were reviewed by the Supreme Court, 20% were affirmed, 19% were vacated, and 61% were reversed.
Source: ABA
I think I understand the problem here, maybe a math-challenged issue. No worries. Here you go...
You take the thousands of cases heard by the 9th CC every year (a). Then you take the number of those cases overturned (b). Then you divide (b) by (a) to get the percentage of cases overturned.
b/a = miniscule (the less than half a percent I pointed out earlier).
I suspect people who don't know much about the history of discrimination in this country are the ones who think this matter is trivial or "asinine," but to people who are the targets of discrimination, prejudiced against, groups of people who are so targeted because they are different from the rest, they are the ones that give these matters importance. In so doing, they also give these matters importance to the rest of us not so tolerant of prejudice and bigotry -- ignorance -- that leads to that sort of injustice, AKA people behaving badly.
Exactly, which is why RELIGION is a Protected Class under the Federal Civil Rights Act.
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