https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/...l?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
“Justices Sharply Divided in Gay Rights Case”
“Justices Sharply Divided in Gay Rights Case”
because even if you hide behind religion it is clear that you are imposing you beliefs on the rights of others.
You have the right to refuse service.
If you are in business, you cannot discriminate. This is an obvious discrimination case.
Yes, the folks who wanted to cake should have gone somewhere else. Which is exactly the "slippery slope" the gun nutters use all the time...isn't it?
unless you are saying firearms should be as easily available as cakes
Not in a discriminatory manner you don't.
Yes, the folks who wanted to cake should have gone somewhere else. Which is exactly the "slippery slope" the gun nutters use all the time...isn't it?
Not exactly. Or even close. The argument the "gun nutters" use is that gun ownership is a right, under our US Constitution. Just like freedom of religion.
You have the right to keep and eat cake
That's sort of like you trannies bitching about not getting dates.......discriminatory?Not in a discriminatory manner you don't. It's really not that difficult a point to understand. If you are in business, you cannot discriminate. This is an obvious discrimination case.
The part that is interesting now is that the baker is claiming his cake design is art and therefore protected under "free speech" under the 1st amendment.
Yes, the folks who wanted to cake should have gone somewhere else. Which is exactly the "slippery slope" the gun nutters use all the time...isn't it?
Hopefully, the Supremes can come to some sort of middle of the road decision on this. Of course that won't satisfy anyone...especially those who post on sites like this (and similar ones on the freaky far left).
You have that exactly backwards. It is the gay community that is trying to impose their beliefs on the Christians who refuse to participate in their weddings.
Nobody is stopping a same-sex couple from using another bakery. They *choose* not to use another bakery because they want to force the Christian baker to go against his beliefs.
This isn't rocket science, so not sure why you don't understand it.
Which is exactly the "slippery slope" the gun nutters use all the time...isn't it?
so you think being born black is the same as making a life choice
Abraham Hamilton III, general counsel to the American Family Association, is wary of arguments comparing Phillips’ refusal to make a wedding cake for gay people to racial discrimination. “As an African American man myself, I think to conflate issues concerning marital preferences as something as easily identifiable as skin color is offensive.” The reason Hamilton believes “the two are not remotely on the same page” is that skin color is a “readily discernible characteristic” and sexual orientation is not.
Ryan T. Anderson, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, says it would be wrong to compare Phillips’ principled refusal to bake a wedding cake with any kind of racial discrimination. He said that while there are “reasons for supporting [heterosexual marriage] that have nothing to do with hatred or condescension,” the same cannot be said of opposition to integration.
“When the Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage, it did not say that opposition to interracial marriage was based on ‘decent and honorable premises’ and held ‘in good faith by reasonable and sincere people here and throughout the world.’ It did not say it because it could not say it,” he said.
Anderson noted that the Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage included a statement in the majority opinion from Justice Anthony M. Kennedy that the First Amendment protects religious people who may “advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned.”
http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/...-the-highly-anticipated-supreme-court-ruling/
Leftist nomenclature for anyone who believes in the supremacy of the citizen over the state.What is a "gun nutter"?
Your “experts” from the heritage foundation and the American family association are biased so their opinions are worthless.
Believing a book of fairy tales ......
What if the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster opened a bakery that didn’t serve Christians. I doubt you would just turn the other cheek
Your “experts” from the heritage foundation and the American family association are biased so their opinions are worthless.
And you aren't biased so your opinion is worth something? Did you write that with a straight face?
Being gay is not a choice anymore than being black is .
You know what is a choice ? Believing a book of fairy tales and using it as an excuse treat actual living people poorly.
That’s a choice you make every day if you think it’s okay to discriminate against anyone
Black, white , Jewish, gay, Muslim , Christian.
What if the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster opened a bakery that didn’t serve Christians. I doubt you would just turn the other cheek
What is a "gun nutter"?