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I'm really tired of everyone

barefooted — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:01:48 +0000

In reply to Should bakers have to make cakes for gay weddings? Mixed race weddings? Black weddings?

I'm really tired of everyone being outraged by everything to the exclusion of everyone. Buy a cake from someone else.

AA, I agree for many reasons.

CVille Dem — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 02:37:16 +0000

AA, I agree for many reasons. Personally, one reason is that I would be afraid that my cake would have a turd baked into it if the person making the cake was disgusted by me. This cake-baking faux-issue is just one more distraction.

If a white supremacist asked me to make a KKK outfit for a baby shower, I honestly think I should have the right to decline. When I worked as a nurse, if I was in charge of a white supremacist, I would have provided the best care that I could deliver. There is a difference.

I have taken care of many objectionable people in my career as a nurse, and it would have been inappropriate for me to factor that in to my care. As a person who now likes to sew and do ceramics, it is a whole different thing.

I don't think the stained

HSG — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:55:48 +0000

In reply to Smart judge. Just turn it

I don't think the stained glass example is analogous unless the Catholic cathedral is asking for a secular pane comparable to other similar panes the Jewish artist has produced in the past. If so, why would he complain? The white supremacists would not have a case if the liberal baker refused to ice the cake with a swastika. Indeed, the liberal baker could refuse to serve the white supremacists even if they were asking for a plain jane cake since white supremacists are not a protected group under anti-discrimination law.

Smart judge. Just turn it

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:42:49 +0000

In reply to Should bakers have to make cakes for gay weddings? Mixed race weddings? Black weddings?

Smart judge. Just turn it around and think if you were a liberal baker and were asked to make a cake for a white suprematicist meeting. Think of a Jewish stained glass artist being forced to take a contract for windows of saints for a Catholic cathedral. Commissions are different from products that are already on sale. It's even treated differently in tax law. When you want to commission someone to make something for you, you hire an craftsperson who is simpatico with your tastes. For commission work, it's a temp job, a labor contract to produce something, no one should be forced to take on work with someone they don't want to be associated with, they want to limit jobs to their "brand". This baker wants a brand of creepy homophobic Christian. Let her have it. Really let her have it. Let it be known to all and sundry.