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Gays & Lesbians disagree with you. They are not a protected class.
Once against you're conflating being protected publicly versus being deemed protected by law! SMH..
Have you ever wondered why there's so many cases of " HATE CRIME" designation?? Of course not.. for some reason you think because of bigoted people who perpetuate Hate crimes ( get charged) have zero connection to the ability to CHARGE THEM WITH A HATE CRIME! Sometimes I wonder just where this type of logic continues to be spread by so many here on C-D
The Supreme court has already deemed "gay" as a class. It did so back in 2013 back in United States v. Windsor (DOMA repeal).
Nope.
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The anti-discrimination protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act do not encompass workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, has held. Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, No. 15-1720 (7th Cir. July 28, 2016) (an Order Correcting Opinion was issued on Aug. 3, 2016).
History repeats itself. How were black people harmed by using separate restrooms and schools? They were equal facilities, after all.
And forcing businesses to treat people of all races equally never did in put a Christian business owner into any kind of moral conflict. In fact, being racist is being anti-Christian. That's a lot different that forcing a business owner to endorse an immoral ceremony which is an activity that someone CHOOSES to have. I wouldn't want to be told I had to cater a swinger's convention either. Same thing.
Do Christian cashiers "endorse" gayness when they ring up a gay person's order?
How about Christian servers in restaurants?
Come on. This crap is ridiculous.
Think of something you find immoral. Now imagine you sell a product that you know ahead of time will be used directly in that immoral act. Would you honestly have no problem with that??
"the harm is that black people have to use the back door"
"the harm is that black people have to sit in the back of the bus"
thats your argument.
And?
The end result is that in most cases the business will go out of business.
If someone doesn't want to go in the back door becasue the restaurant is owned by a bigot, it still comes down to the inconvenience of going elsewhere.
Title 7 and the equal protection clause are not the same thing, Try again.
The reference is to Civil Rights. LGBT is not a protected class under Federal Civil Rights law. The baker's First Amendment Right prevails, especially since there is no conflict.
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