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Incorrect. That ruling found that the state could deny unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating a state prohibition. Who's claiming unemployment benefits in baker vs. Colorado? No one.
BOTH cases are about state laws that supersede peoples religious belief.
Religious beliefs do not trump generally applicable law.
Do you think the freedom to practice your religion free from government interference, actually exists? -well it doesn't.
The baker was declining to do something - follow the law.
Bakers should have the same right to discriminate as doctors -none or total. There is nothing inherently sacred about the life of a stranger, so "forcing" a doctor to save a life, would be the same as "forcing a baker to bake a cake.
Yes, it's simple, but not the way you think. The only laws that can compel forced labor are those that require convicts to labor as part of their sentence. Otherwise, as the Thirteenth Amendment makes clear, no law or regulation can force a person to work.
Incorrect. The state vs Smith case is exclusively about state benefits.
The baker is alleging the violation of his US Constitutional First Amendment Rights in the baker vs. Colorado case.
BIG difference.
The case was a first amendment case v state law.
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Their applications for unemployment compensation were denied by the State of Oregon under a state law disqualifying employees discharged for work-related "misconduct." Holding that the denials violated respondents' First Amendment free exercise rights,
The state won the case because it was a neutral generally applicable law, just like the public accommodation law is a neutral generally applicable law.
Religious belief does not trump generally applicable law.
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