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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2017, 09:58:46 pm »
The "right of association" does not generally apply to commercial enterprises.  If it were, then none of the anti-discrimination laws would be constitutional.

Makes sense to me.  From what I read, it's only been around since the 50's.
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2017, 10:22:30 pm »
...then none of the anti-discrimination laws would be constitutional.

First thing you’ve said I agree with...they aren’t.  If I run a business, I should be within my legal rights to discriminate (and in most cases that’s exactly what it is) against anyone I choose.  I should be able to discriminate against men or women, whites or blacks, gay or straight,  Christian or Muslim.  And my business will succeed or fail based upon society’s response to my business choices.

THAT is a free society.
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2017, 11:21:46 pm »
I presume this couple will lose when the case eventually reaches the Oregon state supreme court.

If they have any hope, it must be seen in the forthcoming ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.

If I were them, I'd file for bankruptcy, then move to as red a state as still can be found.
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2017, 11:55:24 pm »
First thing you’ve said I agree with...they aren’t.  If I run a business, I should be within my legal rights to discriminate (and in most cases that’s exactly what it is) against anyone I choose.  I should be able to discriminate against men or women, whites or blacks, gay or straight,  Christian or Muslim.  And my business will succeed or fail based upon society’s response to my business choices.

THAT is a free society.

The day ANY human being on this planet stops discriminating will very likely be the day he dies!
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #29 on: December 31, 2017, 12:53:26 am »
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #30 on: December 31, 2017, 01:17:14 am »
It's absolutely fascinating the level of hatred displayed on this thread.
So why is it you exhibit such animosity for those who choose freedom over slavery?

You and the old school Democrats are a tight club, eh?
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #31 on: December 31, 2017, 01:36:05 am »
It's very simple:  if you engage in a commercial enterprise, you follow reasonable rules or regulations, even if they violate your personal subjective beliefs, or you get penalized for it.

If the baker's personal religious beliefs were so damned precious to them, then they would have quit the cake-baking business.  That they did not, simply demonstrates that those beliefs aren't nearly as precious to them as they are now claiming.

There is nothing in the Constitution that guarantees complete freedom to do whatever the hell you want, and even less so when it comes to commercial activities, which have always received less protection than purely private noncommercial activities.

I know you don't like it, but that's only because you hate bleep and want the untrammelled right to discriminate against them.
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #32 on: December 31, 2017, 01:38:56 am »
You clearly don't know what the term "non sequitur" means (and it's not capitalized).  Is there a law that requires all delis to sell non-kosher meat or pork?

You haven't pointed to any, so your comparison is utterly meaningless.  Just like your hatred for gay people.
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2017, 02:15:25 am »
It's very simple:  if you engage in a commercial enterprise, you follow reasonable rules or regulations, even if they violate your personal subjective beliefs, or you get penalized for it.

If the baker's personal religious beliefs were so damned precious to them, then they would have quit the cake-baking business.  That they did not, simply demonstrates that those beliefs aren't nearly as precious to them as they are now claiming.

There is nothing in the Constitution that guarantees complete freedom to do whatever the hell you want, and even less so when it comes to commercial activities, which have always received less protection than purely private noncommercial activities.

I know you don't like it, but that's only because you hate bleep and want the untrammelled right to discriminate against them.
So basically you're taking the fascist position that if a customer demands a business make him a certain kind of product, the business must do exactly as the customer orders.
In what universe do you think this is anything but a fascist position?
I make certain types of widgets. A customer enters my business and demands I make him or her a certain kind of widget. I tell the customer he or she is free to purchase the widgets I make, but I do not make widgets I don't want to make.
The customer decides to enter the force of law into the issue and people with guns force me to make widgets I don't want to make.
It was never an issue of a baker refusing service to a customer. It was the issue of the baker being free to make whatever kinds of pastries he felt like.
NO CUSTOMER HAS THE RIGHT TO DEMAND AND FORCE AN OWNER OF A BUSINESS MAKE HIM OR HER A PARTICULAR KIND OF CAKE OR WIDGET!!!!!
To force a business to make things it doesn't want to make is entering into fascism.

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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #34 on: January 01, 2018, 04:47:42 am »
It's absolutely fascinating the level of hatred displayed on this thread.

Hatred? That sounds like the last argument of the left when they lose on the facts. They call it hate and smear those beat them. I call it freedom.

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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #35 on: January 02, 2018, 01:34:30 pm »
This looks to me to be a total shakedown anyway.

$135,000 awarded for 'emotional distress', not by any court but by a thug bureaucrat?

3rd World country stuff.

That bureaucrat should be fired and pension removed for creating this situation as well as removing a business from the state.

I agree.   The successful plaintiffs should be awarded their counsel fees and damages in the amount of one dollar.   
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #36 on: January 02, 2018, 01:39:48 pm »
It's very simple:  if you engage in a commercial enterprise, you follow reasonable rules or regulations, even if they violate your personal subjective beliefs, or you get penalized for it.

If the baker's personal religious beliefs were so damned precious to them, then they would have quit the cake-baking business.  That they did not, simply demonstrates that those beliefs aren't nearly as precious to them as they are now claiming.

There is nothing in the Constitution that guarantees complete freedom to do whatever the hell you want, and even less so when it comes to commercial activities, which have always received less protection than purely private noncommercial activities.

I know you don't like it, but that's only because you hate bleep and want the untrammelled right to discriminate against them.

Well said,  Oceander.   Being required to follow the rules of the community when running a commercial enterprise is not slavery.   There are plenty of other ways to make a living if you can't bear making a cake for a gay wedding.   And this high-minded talk about freedom is just a demand that the community excuse bigotry when festooned in the cloak of religion.   
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #37 on: January 02, 2018, 02:03:05 pm »
Hatred? That sounds like the last argument of the left when they lose on the facts. They call it hate and smear those beat them. I call it freedom.
@Joe Wooten Considering that he is the one doing the most accusing of homophobia and bigotry.....
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #38 on: January 02, 2018, 02:11:48 pm »
@Joe Wooten Considering that he is the one doing the most accusing of homophobia and bigotry.....

And he's spot on.  Just because one may claim religious justification for bigotry doesn't change its stripes, certainly not to those who disagree with that religion.     Live your own life as your conscience requires.   Just don't impose your moral edicts on others. 
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #39 on: January 02, 2018, 02:34:52 pm »
Followed this case like a typical conservative, and always 'knew' in my heart that "..the Supreme Court will straighten it out!"

So?   Were we lied to by the so-called 'Conservative' media this past year+?

What would make even a moderate leaning Court rule against the baker?   Especially, since there are cases involving Muslim-owned bakeries that are 'prosecuted' differently?

So?   WTF happened?   Is Ayn Rand a Prophet?   Up is Down?  Lie is 'Truth'?
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #40 on: January 02, 2018, 02:50:49 pm »
Well said,  Oceander.   Being required to follow the rules of the community when running a commercial enterprise is not slavery.   There are plenty of other ways to make a living if you can't bear making a cake for a gay wedding.   And this high-minded talk about freedom is just a demand that the community excuse bigotry when festooned in the cloak of religion.

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Your version of freedom - to do anything one wants as long as its approved behavior.

You are the most bigoted person on this forum.   You condemn Christians at every turn.
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #41 on: January 02, 2018, 02:52:36 pm »
Followed this case like a typical conservative, and always 'knew' in my heart that "..the Supreme Court will straighten it out!"

So?   Were we lied to by the so-called 'Conservative' media this past year+?

What would make even a moderate leaning Court rule against the baker?   Especially, since there are cases involving Muslim-owned bakeries that are 'prosecuted' differently?

So?   WTF happened?   Is Ayn Rand a Prophet?   Up is Down?  Lie is 'Truth'?

There are two issues here.   First, the legal right of a customer to enter a place of business and not be discriminated against with respect to the services the storeowner has advertised to provide.   Second,  the assessment of ruinous monetary damages in the event a storeowner is found - in a case never decided before - to have violated the law. 

The customer was right to challenge this baker and win a legal victory.   But $135,000 in damages for "emotional distress"  is not justifiable.   The baker should pay the plaintiff's legal costs, but should not, in a case of first impression,  be effectively driven out of business for not knowing what the law is. 

Going forward, once everyone's obligations under laws like these are known,  monetary damages may be appropriate when proven.   But not with respect to this baker, who is being punished unfairly for taking a position she thought reasonable at the time.    The remedy should be equitable, not punitive.     
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #42 on: January 02, 2018, 02:53:24 pm »
Followed this case like a typical conservative, and always 'knew' in my heart that "..the Supreme Court will straighten it out!"

So?   Were we lied to by the so-called 'Conservative' media this past year+?

What would make even a moderate leaning Court rule against the baker?   Especially, since there are cases involving Muslim-owned bakeries that are 'prosecuted' differently?

So?   WTF happened?   Is Ayn Rand a Prophet?   Up is Down?  Lie is 'Truth'?

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I'm going to set out to find every business possible that is owned by gays and attempt to purchase something they don't agree with.   Maybe also go down to the kosher deli and order a ham sandwhich, maybe the muslim resturant and order bacon with my service dog at my side.

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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #43 on: January 02, 2018, 02:55:03 pm »
@DCPatriot
I'm going to set out to find every business possible that is owned by gays and attempt to purchase something they don't agree with.   Maybe also go down to the kosher deli and order a ham sandwhich, maybe the muslim resturant and order bacon with my service dog at my side.

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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #44 on: January 02, 2018, 02:56:14 pm »
Forcing an artist to create a work of art that violates his/her moral principles is not constitutional
nor is it good government. An artist is free to decide which commissions he/she will take and
which he/she will not take. I fine it very troubling that the big government conservatives (liberals)
would argue otherwise.




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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #45 on: January 02, 2018, 02:59:46 pm »
And he's spot on.  Just because one may claim religious justification for bigotry doesn't change its stripes, certainly not to those who disagree with that religion.     Live your own life as your conscience requires.   Just don't impose your moral edicts on others.
@Jazzhead Which is exactly what the gay couple is trying to do. Do you really not see the irony of your position.
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #46 on: January 02, 2018, 03:01:10 pm »
@Jazzhead
Your version of freedom - to do anything one wants as long as its approved behavior.

You are the most bigoted person on this forum.   You condemn Christians at every turn.

Christians aren't bigots - certainly not the ones I know.   

Laws against discrimination in the workplace,  and with respect to public accommodations, are simply a manifestation of the community's reasonable rules and expectations regarding interaction among the citizenry.   You are under no obligation to be part of the community and its rules.  If you define freedom as the liberty to be a bigoted bleep,  go right ahead.   But don't expect the community to structure itself to tolerate or accommodate you.     
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #47 on: January 02, 2018, 03:03:29 pm »
Forcing an artist to create a work of art that violates his/her moral principles is not constitutional
nor is it good government. An artist is free to decide which commissions he/she will take and
which he/she will not take. I fine it very troubling that the big government conservatives (liberals)
would argue otherwise.

No one is forcing this baker/artist to make wedding cakes. 
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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #48 on: January 02, 2018, 03:08:10 pm »
No one is forcing this baker/artist to make wedding cakes.

Gov most certainly is forcing the artist, in this case the baker, to create a work of art that
violates his conscience. That is unconstitutional and immoral.

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Re: Court rules against Oregon bakers in wedding-cake case
« Reply #49 on: January 02, 2018, 03:08:33 pm »
Forcing an artist to create a work of art that violates his/her moral principles is not constitutional
nor is it good government. An artist is free to decide which commissions he/she will take and
which he/she will not take. I fine it very troubling that the big government conservatives (liberals)
would argue otherwise.





Commercial speech receives less protection than non-commercial speech, and no matter how “artistic” it may be, if it’s done for profit as part of a business, it’s commercial speech, at most.