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The Arizona Supreme Court Strikes a Powerful Blow for Free Speech and Religious Freedom
Cyber Liberty:
--- Quote from: roamer_1 on September 17, 2019, 12:38:15 am ---Yes, but because it is artistic expression, not because transactions must be voluntary.
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Ah! I see your point. Yes, it should be a matter for business rather than art, simply because it's easier to define clearly. The free conduct of business train left the station in the 60's.
roamer_1:
--- Quote from: Cyber Liberty on September 17, 2019, 12:42:02 am ---Ah! I see your point. Yes, it should be a matter for business rather than art, simply because it's easier to define clearly. The free conduct of business train left the station in the 60's.
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Right. It needs to return.
PeteS in CA:
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/09/17/broke-bake-cake-woke-make-invitations/
Broke: Bake The Cake. Woke: Make The Invitations
--- Quote ---In all of these cases that arise, I find myself coming back to the same point. Why do these couples seek out these specific providers and demand that they and only they will be suitable to serve them? The industry supporting weddings in America is brutally competitive. Virtually anywhere you go you will find hordes of people eager to take your money exchange for all of the goods and services a wedding requires. And at the risk of overly generalizing, it’s a pretty gay-friendly environment if you know what I mean.
Insisting that someone with a moral objection provide your goods and services when you could so easily find those services elsewhere seems mean-spirited at best. Perhaps the courts are taking that into consideration as well as the entire forced speech concern.
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Most of the article is a recounting of the issues of this case. But in the last two paragraphs of the article Jazz Shaw pointed out, briefly the pachyderm in the parlor I've seen few call out. While I know from having kept tabs on this case that this lawsuit was filed premptively, filed before activists or bureaucrats could target this business, most or almost all other similar cases have been the result of homosexual activists targeting businesses known to be run by theologically conservative Christians.
Stooge-activist couples get the decline they sought, make their demand, and then take their issue to "Human Rights Commissions" (= kangaroo courts designed to bypass and deny civil and criminal due process). Then once their due process rights have been denied, the baker/florist/photographer/artist/calligrapher/videographer has to appeal in courts where the burden of proof is on them. IOW, the activists take advantage of a system rigged for their purpose. The reason the baker in Colorado won is that the bureaucrats were too blatant and open about their prejudice.
txradioguy:
On Monday, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that two women who run an invitation company do not have to create content for LGBT weddings.
Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski started and run their wedding invitation company, "Brush and Nib," in Phoenix. Through this company, they sell hand-drawn invitations.
While other Christian companies only entered a legal battle once they were personally sued by people who had been refused service for their same-sex weddings, Duka and Koski decided to preemptively bring their case before the courts themselves.
Alliance Defending Freedom, who is representing the women, said in a statement that Duka and Koski were faced "with an impossible choice." A non-discrimination law in the city required them to accept work orders from all weddings or face fines of up to $2,500 and a maximum six months in jail.
"They didn't want to go to jail and pay $2,500 for each day they failed to comply," ADF said. "They didn't want to close the business they poured so much into. But the alternative wasn't doable. They could not compromise their artistic and religious beliefs. They could not accept sitting down in their studio and hand-drawing artwork that contradicted who they are and what they hold dear."
Duka and Koski lost their initial bid in a lower court, but that setback was reversed when the Arizona Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the law violated their free speech. However, this ruling was narrow and applied only to the hand-made invites, which the court said fell under freedom of speech, and not anything else they might do.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/arizona-supreme-court-rules-that-christian-company-does-not-have-to-make-invitations-for-lgbtq-weddings?utm_content=bufferf181b&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=tw-theblaze
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