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Funny. Yeah, they're not. Political ideology is not a protected class in US law.
by hacknat 7y ago
Funny. Yeah, they're not. Political ideology is not a protected class in US law.
- root_axis 7y agoedit: What I wrote here is wrong. It was not confirmed it was only a narrow ruling. And as the courts have recently confirmed, even protected classes cannot compel a business into speech that contradicts their own sincerely held moral and ethical beliefs.
- ceejayoz 7y agoSCOTUS hasn't actually decided on that. The Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling was a narrow one, ruling that Colorado's process explicitly discriminated against the bakers - it showed forbidden anti-religious animus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora... > In a 7-2 decision, the Court ruled on narrow grounds that the Commission did not employ religious neutrality, violating Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips' rights to free exercise, and reversed the Commission's decision. The Court did not rule on the broader intersection of anti-discrimination laws, free exercise of religion, and freedom of speech, due to the complications of the Commission's lack of religious neutrality. It'll probably be a few more years before we get a better test case for the issue that the Court can't as easily dodge.
- root_axis 7y agoYou are correct. I'll edit my comment.
- LanceH 7y agoSometimes it is. Unsolicited phone calls and mailings for instance.