disneydude
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Actually, it isn't. TV and Radio stations must air political advertisements. So, if you had a business and you wanted to put up a Hillary for President poster, it wouldn't be far fetched for the government to say, you must be fair and post an opponents poster to. After all, you are a business and you gave up your rights. I think, you only support this because you aren't affected. If it went the other way, you'd be crying foul.
It was the customers choice to engage the baker and their intent to cause discord so I would TOTALLY disagree with that assessment.
Or you can elect officials that will protect your rights.
Or in another way, if you have core religious values that would prevent you from serving everyone, you aren't allowed to open a business. Case in point, Muslim bakers must grant my request for a Happy Gay Marriage cake complete with Muhammad picture.
No. You are missing the point (either purposefully or mistakenly). The Muslim baker would not have to write "Happy Gay Marriage" on your cake. They would have to sell you any cake that they openly offer to the public. Big difference.
TV and Radio have to air political advertisements because they are part of the media/airwaves - public access issues. The same laws do not apply to private businesses for obvious reasons. Its not even close to being related. Come up with a better analogy...this one is just silly.
Right. They offer "put your message on a cake with a pic( provide pic, we print on cake ) for 9.99".
Oh no. Your store front is in public view. You don't like the analogy because it calls out the hypocrisy of what you are doing, but the reality is that my analogy is as unfair as the idea that you can force someone to work for you even if it violates their personal and religious beliefs.
Well....you would be wrong. Sorry. It may have been the intent of the customer to cause discord...but THAT isn't discrimination.
That becomes a little more difficult. However, while they would still be required to provide the cake, it is likely that the current law would not require them to write something on the cake that they do not want to, even if they offer to "put your message on a cake". There are similar cases where someone didn't want to print profanity, etc that were found to not violate the law. I imagine that if the Christian Baker didn't want to write "Happy Gay Marriage" that would be ok. They just can't refuse to provide the cake.
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if every jurisdiction passed a law that said if you want to open a business that sells to the public you must sell to each and every person who enters your business provided they are polite, decent, exhibit proper hygiene, are not disruptive, and have a means of paying for the goods and/or services they wish to purchase. Otherwise, consider another profession or line of work.
How many cases should there have to be before action takes place? Because it seems just a few people encounter discrimination, we should just ignore it? It must be widespread first? So those folks should just keep quiet and suck it up?
With the current law, they would have a potential defense for refusing the work, but could still be held liable for discrimination against me, your hypothetical gay activist looking to pick a fight. And in Indiana, they would also have a potential defense against a civil suit on the same test.
In my opinion, that was the point of the law, and not to codify outright ad-hoc discrimination.
Religion is not just in church. Religion is an all day, every day kind of thing. The practice of religion does not end, not ever.
No. Face it, it was a poor analogy. Try harder to come up with something more on point. There are FCC laws that regulate the airwaves in the public interest. I'm happy to respond to an appropriate analogy. Put some thought into it and then get back to me.
I don't think so. Current laws have sided with businesses of this limited issue. I don't think that the law requires any specific writing as long as they provide the public. There are situations where a printer has refused to print flyers containing profanity and swastikas and the like. In other words, I don't think a gay couple could force the "Christian" or "Muslim" baker to put two men on a cake or draw a gay symbol. But if they want to buy a cake that they offer to the public, the baker cannot turn them away just because the baker thinks they are "icky".
I doubt that you and I would agree on what day of the week it is, much less an issue like this.
If you pick someone out of a crowd based on a single characteristic with the sole intent of causing them harm then I'd say that's pretty much the textbook definition of discrimination.
I don't think so. Current laws have sided with businesses of this limited issue. I don't think that the law requires any specific writing as long as they provide the public. There are situations where a printer has refused to print flyers containing profanity and swastikas and the like. In other words, I don't think a gay couple could force the "Christian" or "Muslim" baker to put two men on a cake or draw a gay symbol. But if they want to buy a cake that they offer to the public, the baker cannot turn them away just because the baker thinks they are "icky".
RFRA applies to more situations than what we are talking about, and RFRA wouldn't protect a business from discriminating due to "icky".
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You are speaking of your own morality, not the practice of religion and worship.
So does that mean all the baker has to do is make every cake custom?
That doesn't work either. If someone comes into my office and tells me that they want to pay me $30k to do their tax return but their income is from heroin trafficking I'm still going to ask them to leave even though it would be perfectly legal for me to do the return.
You are right. It is not operating the business that is a problem. It is the state forcing the conciencious objector to act against her concience that is.
No. I am speaking of religion. No religion says "follow my rules why you are at worship." Religion is a 24/7, 365 prospect.
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