[Durbin]

This whole damn thing started because that bakery refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, and their right to refuse that service was attacked viciously. Am I wrong on this one?

[expatguy]

I thought all businesses reserve the right to refuse business if they want?

Surely they can't force the bakery to bake a cake

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[TangledUpInBlue]

No. That happened in New Mexico, where discrimination is already AGAINST the law. Hence the lawsuit.

In AZ, it’s perfectly ok under the law to discriminate on ANY grounds, including Religious, so the law makes no sense. It’s a waste of time and money. Anderson Cooper made that Senator look like an idiot. His PR handlers left him high and dry to look like an idiot.

Do we really need laws telling us it’s ok to do something under the law that the law already says is ok to do? If that sounds silly, it’s because it is.

[Kazan]

This whole damn thing started because that bakery refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, and their right to refuse that service was attacked viciously. Am I wrong on this one?

I'd say it started in 2006 when a photographer in New Mexico declined to take pictures at lesbian ceremony.