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This case had been rejected in the past. What's different now? (Gorsuch) I hear he is a big religious freedom person. Looks like the beginning of the end of some civil rights...this is what the American Public wants....go figure.
Disenfranchisement is still disenfranchisement no matter how finely disguised.
No disenfranchisement in this situation, exists.
A private citizen has never had the right and rarely the ability to deprive someone of thier rights in this country.
Although, no citizen has the right to another's property, labor, or agreement. So perhaps the store owner IS being disenfranchised, here.
No it is about "artistic vision" vversus harm this time rather than religious freedom versus harm. How people can't see that denying customers based on illegal discriminatory reasons is illegal. Civil Rights Act of 1963 people.
HA! Tell that to the thousands of strip clubs that won't allow single women into their joints without a male escort. I've even seen actual lesbians turned away until she talked some man that is parking to escort her inside. If the strip clubs can discriminate because they think the single women might be prostitutes, then a baker can choose to exercise his 1st and 4th amendments by refusing to do a cake for something that he is against.
However, if this holds up in case, then damn, I'm going to find me a lesbian lawyer and have a nice payday suing all of the Gentleman Establishments around here.
Jim Crow laws were restrictions placed on citizens to prevent them from doing something.
State laws placed restrictions on Americans citizens preventing them from marrying. The Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution allows for same-sex couples to marry. This ruling effectively overturned the State restrictions that were in place. Prior to this ruling, 37 US States & DC had removed marriage restrictions.
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They were the exact opposite of what is happening here.
How so?
The scenarios are similar in that some folks are resistant or are outright in opposition to civil rights for all American citizens. & petitioned or are currently petitioning Government to sanctify. Backlash.
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