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yardwork

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19. You are confusing two things.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 12:06 AM
Aug 2019

1. No baker can refuse service to somebody on the basis of their religion. In other words, if you bake cakes, you can't decide that you'll bake cakes for everybody except Christians.

2. Nobody is ever forced to perform a specific service. If you don't want to write "God hates fags" on any of your cakes, that's fine. As long as you aren't writing that for some people while refusing service to others on the basis of their religion, that's fine.

In the case of gay people, why is there always this assumption that we want offensive messages written on our wedding cakes?

It's really quite offensive to assume that we gay couples are demanding that bakers write obscene messages on our cakes. I don't understand this thinking at all.

then everyone can refuse service to xtians because it violates religious beliefs... nt msongs Aug 2019 #1
Religion - a bullshit cover for political operatives. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2019 #2
freedom OF religion must also mean freedom FROM religion not_the_one Aug 2019 #8
"But we ALL know that what they REALLY WANT is to legislate and codify CHRISTIAN SHARIA LAW." RKP5637 Aug 2019 #11
In order for anyone to do business they must accept certain requirements. LiberalFighter Aug 2019 #3
Are you sure? metalbot Aug 2019 #7
How is baking a cake for a same-sex wedding different fro a cake for an opposite-sex wedding? yardwork Aug 2019 #16
Why move the goalposts outside of the implicit anti-discrimination laws? LanternWaste Aug 2019 #22
Why should a fundamentalist Christian baker be forced to provide a service to an openly gay couple LiberalLovinLug Aug 2019 #14
We've been through all this before. The Civil Rights movement resulted in federal laws. yardwork Aug 2019 #17
Thanks LiberalLovinLug Aug 2019 #18
You are confusing two things. yardwork Aug 2019 #19
Thanks again, I guess LiberalLovinLug Aug 2019 #20
I don't think that you understand. yardwork Aug 2019 #21
That's an easy position to hold until one has to provide services to the Klan Mike_DuBois Aug 2019 #15
This is an early procedural decision, elleng Aug 2019 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Initech Aug 2019 #5
R you #MAGA ? Historic NY Aug 2019 #6
I was out walking my dogs with my dad the other day. Initech Aug 2019 #10
This is why the Christian right is coming after the courts. Initech Aug 2019 #9
Throughout history, it's been the religious freaks persecuting others. Their crap to me about being RKP5637 Aug 2019 #12
Amen to that!!! Initech Aug 2019 #13
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