Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple

Re:Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple by kennywinker on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:55AM (#17229134)

Generally speaking the interpretation “it’s the bakers right to bake cakes however they want” works how the law works - though of course that type of rule can still lead to discrimination (e.g. I don’t sell houses in that “neighborhood”).

However, your point about the left moving us towards orwellianism due to over litigating seems like B.S. to me. The second amendment isn’t a freedom canary (see australia). The Right just used the courts to redefine money as speech.

I don’t see how free speech is destoryed if sexual orientation or gender expression become protected classes like race, or country of origin.

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Re:Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple by dahdum on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:30PM (#17229497)

OP was referring to the expression of free speech, which though the court didn’t rule on would likely have given the same outcome. Designing the cake and decorating could easily fall under free speech, and weakening the 1st amendment is a bad idea.

Imagine you’re a Jewish artist and sell your premade work in a gallery to the public, and also offer custom portrait commissions. An avowed Nazi can come and purchase your paintings, but you should never be forced to paint their portrait. You can imagine this scenario any number of ways, gay artist and fundamentalist anti-gay preacher for instance.

It’s not so much a slippery slope as a bright line, once you give the majority that power it will be abused.

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