Your post nails my biggest problem with issues such as this one. The implications today are that if you own a business you have forfeited your first amendment rights and right to freedom of association.
Which, of course, is preposterous. The owners of that bakery should get the ACLU to take up their case. It is actually possible they would, if it were not for the threats they would then get from the 21st century lynch mob.
Your post nails my biggest problem with issues such as this one. The implications today are that if you own a business you have forfeited your first amendment rights and right to freedom of association.
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That issue ended in 1963 with the Civil Rights act. These are the very reasons it was fought so hard. It wasn’t all about the blacks, it was about the future.