[GonzoII]

"The Supreme Court relisted the case several times for consideration, as it may have been waiting for a full nine-justice court to hear the case."

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks for noting.

[Principled]

This one is ez - there are plenty of other places that would do this. No reason to force this one place to do it.

I am hoping for a slap down here.

[lurk]

Trained legal minds would surely have an answer to this question. Doesn’t a law have to apply across the board to all citizens and not to an individual or a group?

Any bakery owned by muslins would refuse a homosexual cake. But they don’t get targeted, baited, entrapped or fined by social justice commissions.

It seems odd that individual citizens can get nailed for taking a stand while whole population groups who do the same are free to continue without a comment.

[BAW]

The LGBTQs don’t really want a cake. They could get that from an LGBTQ baker. What they really want is a Christian baker to REFUSE so the law suits and court cases ensue.

[HLPhat]

And now we'll see just how seriously Gorsooch took the teachings of the "church" he selected for his family to attend up there in the People's Republic of Boulderistan.

[I want the USA back]

Until muzzies are arrested or fined for not serving gays, normal people, people with working dogs, doing that to Christians is unfair, illegal, and immoral.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Suppose the Westboro Baptist Church comes to town to have one of their "God Hates Fags" protests at a local military funeral, an activity that the the U.S. Supreme Court has held is their Constitutional right.

They try to hire a gay caterer to cater their event and he refuses. Should he be forced to cater the event or get fined out of business?

[Redmen4ever]

We can do this: one man’s rights end where another man’s rights begin. Nobody should be able to enslave anybody.

Having said that, the ruling will probably focus on the distinction between a private business and a public business.

A prostitute can discriminate on any basis at all, because of the intimate service he or she provides. But a restaurant cannot discriminate on the basis of race.

So, considering the matter carefully, I will issue my fatwah:

A business may not withhold the sale of any standard product or service offered for sale to the public, except in for reasons that are sensible (such as a height restriction on riders of roller coasters).

However, a business may refuse to customize the products or services it offers on any basis other than those bases restricted by law; and,

Furthermore, because of the free exercise of religion, when sincerely-held religious beliefs are involved, business may even refuse to customize products or services in some cases where discrimination is restricted by law. Resolution of these conflicts involve balancing the free exercise of religion against the public utility involved.

In the case of wedding cakes, the available of standard products and services is a close substitute for customized products and services, so even where a particular baker has a local monopoly, the scales are tipped in favor of the free exercise of religion.

[Democrats hate too much]

Gorsuch may use this case to show he is pro gay rights.

[okie 54]

They should have bake the cake and loaded it up with laxative. That would have given the fags a memorable wedding night

[Joe Bfstplk]

How can there be discrimination if the baker refused all requests from all sodomites?

All sodomites are treated equally.