bfl
As far as the Left is concerned, the First Amendment guarantees freedom FROM religion and should be used to outlaw Christianity.
One wonders what the erm... decorations they wanted were.
Start baking undecorated cakes for everyone. Cake, layers, frosting. That’s it. No words or add-ons. I wonder how much that would cripple business?
I'm all for Christian charity, but that realm is none of the Court's business either.
If you're not free to associate, you're not free. So "Congress shall pass no law" and the Supremes shall utter no fortune-cookie twaddle contradicting that right.
The only discrimination within voluntary transactions that is illegal under the U.S. Constitution is that carried out by the laws of Congress. States are free to roll their own, and do.
The free market is the only real cure for private discrimination, when it's causing disfunction. And the market does a fine job. As Thomas Sowell pointed out decades ago, if (for example) West Indian lawyers are discriminated against in hiring, that's a golden opportunity for a West Indian law firm to hire lawyers at lower prices and beat non-West Indian law firms on price. They'll eat the market's lunch until the situation changes. Before the nanny state got into the act, that same process was the ticket to success for Chinese, Jews, Irish, Italians . . . and in fact, West Indians. No whining, no marketplace busybodies, no lawsuits, just beat your competition if you're better.
Tyranny sneaks in as a solution looking for a problem.
her dog? how come she loses her dog?
In Canada, as we saw in Mark Steyn’s ordeal, there are quasi-judicial Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) and their Tribunals which have the power to fine and order actions to force compliance with a plaintiff claiming their human rights were violated.
We now see that this same process has migrated here and in those states where there is an activist sponsorship of using the power of government to quash disagreeable (to them) ideas and traditions, the 1st Amendment is in great danger of being submerged by the usage of the Civil Rights Act and its Public Accommodation clause.
Patriots are reminded concerning misguided, pro-LGBT activist states punishing Christian business owners that Congress has the 14th Amendment power to make laws to make laws to strengthen the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens from state abridgment of those protections.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"14th Amendment, Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
The problem is that we’ve still got a corrupt Congress left over from the lawless Obama administration that will predictably continue to ignore state abridgment of constitutionally enumerated protections.
So patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of constitutional rights-respecting candidates on the primary ballots and pink-slip career federal lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day in 2018.
Even if justice is delayed by several decades, some day those thugs who abuse government power to deny Christians religious freedom need to be prosecuted.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law . . . willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both
By their very nature, the massive fines inflicted by jack-booted government thugs in Washington State include an implicit threat of government force including dangerous weapons. A decade behind bars for each offense would be a good start. Some crimes are so heinous that they can never be forgiven or forgotten, and this set of crimes makes that short list.
Make lefties bake cakes that say Jesus is LORD, Hell is real, will burn there forever?