Posted on 04/27/2018 10:44:08 AM PDT by blam
The problem is, the Left made all of their favorite causes “protected.”
Businesses have the right to refuse to serve any one.
Then again, you’re free to look elsewhere.
Unless it’s to protect a Christian cause, then an exception will be created from whole cloth.
Right. That’s what those cakes were about.
They also have the right to serve refuse to anyone. And in that case, we’re also free to look elsewhere.
When liberals speak about "nuanced thought," they mean engaging in verbal games of a sort which Jesuits or Talmudic scholars were once accused of. Through their verbal games, they can justify criticizing the speck in Trump's eye while ignoring the plank in Hillary's eye.
WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
The path is clear, just ban all these liberal clowns from your business based on their political association.
Ok, works for me.
Just ask gays if they are democrats. If so, refuse business.
So, now a bakery can ask what political party you supported, and deny you their services!..................Great................
One of the bakers got a California to judge agree that the act of baking a cake was artistic expression, and an artist cannot be forced to express sentiments against their beliefs. Buying an off the shelf generic good is okay, but custom designing a cake for a gay wedding can be denied.
Taking this to the bar, the owner might be required to serve the Trump supporter a beer or glass of wine, but might refuse to mix a custom cocktail.
-PJ
I don’t feel you have the right to deny “regular” service or goods to anyone. You walk into a bar and expect to be served. You don’t have the expectation that the bartender do it a certain way. My understanding is the bakeries did sell to LGBT people but when asked to perform in a certain way they drew the line.
No one wants to be told we don’t serve your kind. How humiliating to the recipient but you can surely tell them we don’t do it that way. The bar is wrong and the bakery is right.
I stopped going to the only bar I went to 5 years ago. Most of the regulars were retired gubmint employees and Democrat. Waste of time and money.
The bar is a public accommodation, and a gay lifestyle is not a religious belief, that’s where I think the author goes wrong.
I think I'd pretty much agree with that. Which means that the activists judges were wrong both times.
Patron to bar: Look, I just want to come in a have a bottle of beer.
Bar: Nope. I see your Trump hat. We don't serve your kind. Get out.
Judge: The bar is right, you know.
Customer to bakery: I'd like a cake.
Bakery: Certainly! I'm happy to sell you a cake.
Customer: And I want to you to decorate it and praise homosexuality and say God loves homosexuals.
Bakery: Uhhhhhhh. No, I'd rather not. Happy to sell you the cake, but those additions cross the line, and I decline to add those.
Judge: Not a choice. Bake the cake or we will destroy you.
As a matter of law and of property rights, this is correct. they can boot Trump supporters if they choose to.
But could we boot Hillary supporters or other libs from our business establishment? Anyone want to put money on that?
Depends on why they refuse to serve them.
Let's try it and find out? I'd pay money to watch that.
If I order an Absolut vodka martini then I have every expectation that the bartender will do it way.
Also a custom-decorated cake is art, and a beer is not. The author managed to be wrong in all of the relevant points.
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