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A question for all the “my business, my rules” crowd: do you also support a cake shop refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple?
by nisuni 8y ago
A question for all the “my business, my rules” crowd: do you also support a cake shop refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple?
- muzz 8y agoWhat was the legal outcome of the court challenge in that situation?
- danaris 8y agoI'm honestly not sure of my answer to that question, but there's a huge difference between refusing service to someone because of their sexual orientation and refusing service to someone because of active support of white supremacists and other hate groups. Not only is one discriminating because of what you are and the other because of what you do and say, but the "do and say" side in this case is doing and saying things that are unquestionably morally repugnant, and in many cases actively inciting (or at least condoning) violence against classes of people...mainly because of what those people are.
- zimpenfish 8y ago> their sexual orientation Which I believe is considered a "protected class" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group - whereas being a racist/white supremacist/alt-right (currently) isn't. That's the difference.
- danaris 8y agoWhile that's true, and the legal definitions are derived from the moral foundation I'm applying here, they themselves aren't really my point. Rather, it's that the reason they're protected classes in the first place is because they're (basically) things people either can't control about themselves.
- nisuni 8y agoYour are conflating two different things: speaking in favor of one particular policy of President Trump is NOT speaking in favor of supremacist or hate groups. I am myself in favor of a couple of Trump’s policies, and I am pretty sure I am not a white supremacist or part of a hate group.