Posted on 01/08/2019 11:46:53 AM PST by jazusamo
While I understand your point, allow me to propose a different metric.
Privately owned companies (less than 6 owners) can excise their 1st Amendment right to free assembly (including for the purpose of conducting commerce) to engage or NOT engage with whoever they choose, for any reason.
Publicly owned entities (stocks, government partnerships, government approved monopolies (think cable), and government agents (direct or contracted to the government) are required to serve the public and do NOT have a 1st amendment right of freedom of assembly.
“My attitude is,basically....if a Christian owns an ambulance service he shouldn’t be allowed to deny service to a pervert...or *anyone*...who needs to be taken to a hospital.And one shouldn’t need an explanation as to why.
But caterers,florists and photographers do *not* provide anything that can be said to even remotely resemble an “essential service”.So therefore they should be able to refuse service to *anyone*...for pretty much *any* reason.”
Providing emergency services to a gay person is not even remotely the same as baking him a themed cake. Providing medical services is not in support of someone being Gay or in support of homosexuality. While Baking a Gay themed cake is in support of both.
Has the “Colorado Civil Rights Commission” ever lifted a finger to help secure anyone’s 2nd Amendment Rights?
You know, the one’s in the CONSTITUTION!
These people are my deepest enemies.
Bankrupt that commie state!
I think I can safely say NO without looking it up.
This is great news.
Can he demand a special ambulance that is blue on the outside and pink on the inside to celebrate his gender identification.
They don't. Nazis are not a protected class.
Moslem food purveyors shouldn't be required to cater functions where pork is served.
They're not. Businesses are not required to provide a product they don't normally provide. Muslim and Jewish food purveyors don't sell pork to anyone. They can't be forced to.
And Christian food purveyors shouldn’t be required to cater pervert functions.
There are anti-discrimination laws that say otherwise. The emphasis should be on repealing those.
I think that all these anti-discrimination laws should be done away with and replaced with a requirement that business post a notice on who they will serve and who they will not. That's the only way to guarantee freedom of association.
THEMED cake: That is the issue.
This is inarguably infringement of First Amendment Rights of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
We do not have impartial rule of law; we have leftist rule of lawfare.
The very word, discrimination, has become a Marxist weapon:
Freedom of association requires discrimination - but they have defamed and outlawed the very idea, while effectively discriminating against all conservatives and Christians.
Diabolically clever.
“First, Commission members made disparaging comments about Phillips’ faith at public hearings. And second, the Division and the Commission treated Phillips differently from three other bakeries by allowed those bakeries to refuse a customer’s request to make a cake that would have violated their secular values, while requiring Phillips to produce a cake that would have violated his sacred beliefs,” the opinion stated.
Thanks jazusamo.
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