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To: xzins

I think it is a 13th Amendment issue. If they sell general pre-decorated cakes, then they can be required to sell them to anyone who asks. However if the cake decorator does not wish to decorate a cake with some message they find repulsive, then forcing them by law to decorate that cake is involuntary servitude. Decorating a cake is art. You cannot compel an artist to violate his own conscience to make art that he finds repulsive.

The same goes for florists, photographers, preachers.


22 posted on 10/04/2017 11:40:09 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe
You may have a point. I've brought up the pertinent involuntary slavery argument many times, but leftist just reply, "then they should close their shop and not chose to serve the public." Quite an onerous cost to practice God-given rights.

Most of these "sexual orientation regulations" are also administered by unelected commissions, without the due process guaranteed by the Constitution of a trial-by-jury option. I'd like to see one of these attacked business owners demand to be tried in a duly authorized court OF LAW in a jury trial, with a high-powered attorney defending him and having a hand in selecting the jury. Even if one juror can't find him guilty, he walks, and the state has to foot the bill for the expenses. Maybe they'll think twice before they decide to prosecute again. It's all about money and guaranteed narrative victory (which a tribunal by commission guarantees) with these fascist goons.

30 posted on 10/04/2017 12:18:14 PM PDT by fwdude (The perverted left-bound train is always accusing the train station of "moving right.")
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