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If a customer walks in requesting a cake with a swatzika and other Nazi insignia, should the bakery be allowed to refuse?
by Georgelemental 4y ago
If a customer walks in requesting a cake with a swatzika and other Nazi insignia, should the bakery be allowed to refuse?
- roflyear 4y agoPolitical speech has never been protected.
- Georgelemental 4y agoArguably, marriage and the family are political. "The personal is political" as the feminists say
- roflyear 4y agoUsing that argument, everything is political ....
- Nevermark 4y agoGood question, thanks! I think divisive political or social messages would fall under the providers right to decline based on personal morals, that don't involve making distinctions dependent on a protected customer class. But it would be a problem if the cake maker was ok making very divisive cakes favorable to white supremacists, but then refused to make similarly divisive cakes associated with other races or religions. As that inconsistency would indicate the supplier was making distinctions based on protected classes (i.e. religion, race).
- Georgelemental 4y agoWhat do you mean by "divisive"? How do you define that in a court of law?
- Nevermark 4y agoThe supplier can define divisive, or objectionable in general, in any way they want as long as it doesn't result in protected classes of people being treated differently. A cake maker is fully within their rights to refuse to make blue cake, if they don't like blue, for example.