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It's not just artistic expression. It's Free Speech. The government CANNOT compel speech or expression. I've already explained this quite clearly.
Compelled speech is prohibited by the US Constitution's First Amendment. In the same way that the First Amendment protects free expression, it also protects an individual from being required to utter or otherwise express (e.g., create a custom-ordered cake for a same sex wedding) a thought with which they disagree.
How is it free speech?
A cake isn't free speech unless it's artistic expression. If it's a stock cake, it's not artistic expression.
It's not just artistic expression. It's Free Speech. The government CANNOT compel speech or expression. I've already explained this quite clearly.
Compelled speech is prohibited by the US Constitution's First Amendment. In the same way that the First Amendment protects free expression, it also protects an individual from being required to utter or otherwise express (e.g., create a custom-ordered cake for a same sex wedding) a thought with which they disagree.
They were not compelled to say anything that they did not already say. The couple wanted a cake that they bakery made and offered for sale before to other people including one of their mother for her wedding.
It wasn't even a wedding cake, it was their raspberry fantasy cake. IF they had a problem expressing the sentiment in the cake why did they make it repeatedly before?
It's not just artistic expression. It's Free Speech. The government CANNOT compel speech or expression. I've already explained this quite clearly.
Compelled speech is prohibited by the US Constitution's First Amendment. In the same way that the First Amendment protects free expression, it also protects an individual from being required to utter or otherwise express (e.g., create a custom-ordered cake for a same sex wedding) a thought with which they disagree.
What does the cake say?
On a more serious side, if you are going with that argument, no free speech was denied. The Bakers withheld their own free speech by not making a cake.
They were not compelled to say anything that they did not already say.
Incorrect. Forcing the baker to create a wedding cake for the same sex couple is unConstitutional compelled speech. Read my explanation and the cases I cited.
Incorrect. Compelled speech is requiring one to express a thought with which one disagrees.
express: convey (a thought or feeling) in words or by gestures and conduct
Minersville School District v. Gobitis, which was subsequently overturned in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Wooley v. Maynard
Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.
What thought is being expressed by a cake?
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