I never once defended it. I called out your stupidity for insisting that he got it from a Nazi website. You're just too dense to comprehend the distinction.
You’re so adorable when you backpedal. You didn't just accuse Huckabee of getting the photo off a racist website. You very specifically accused him of getting it off a Nazi website.
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People can't find another place to get a burger? Brisket? Pepsi? A haircut? How is the ability to find a service somewhere else a reason to side with TJ and the baker?
Not sure I understand your last question but yes, as stated on page 1, I generally think private business owners should have leeway to decide who they want to serve. And I believe the market can decide whether they wish to avail themselves of those products or services. Those who object are free to “boycott” said business but I do not agree the offended folks should be able allowed to picket, vandalize or otherwise disrupt the business. This goes for the baker, photographer, restaurateur, etc.
I’m not disputing that but you didn’t answer my question. I asked how SHS benefitted from her tweet. Walter Shaub stated that her tweet was a clear violation of the federal law that prohibits government employees from using public office for private gain.
Wait... so you think ANY business should be able to refuse service to homosexuals? Sorry, I misunderstood. Now I can see why you sided with TJ. At least he thinks there is something unique about the magic cake baking process that differentiates it from boring old burgers.
Yes, you have.
There was nothing "nuanced" in what the baker did. He refused to bake a cake for them because they were gay...period. They never even got to the point where he might have objected to the message they wanted on the cake...they never picked out a cake. So this restaurant owner refused to serve SHS because of who SHE is. Exactly the same thing...and wrong in both cases.
Lol. Her private gain from using her public position is that in the future every restaurant she walks into is going to kowtow to her every whim because they know that otherwise they will suffer her Twitter wrath.
And if it’s Podunk, Iowa with only one cake-maker? That’s why discrimination is such a slippery slope issue. You make it legal to discriminate based on something as fundamental as race, religion, sexuality then huge problems arise.
Why would "custom" make a difference? A restaurateur can refuse service if the customer asks for their steak made to order? You either order a steak out of the case or GTFO? Find someone else to cook your steak medium well and smothered in onions and mushrooms?? Burger King says you can have it your way...unless you're gay?
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Lol. I wonder if every cop in America was terrified to arrest a black man after Barack Obama personally called out Sgt Crowley.
So if one of Sarah’s personal friends was kicked out of a restaurant instead of Sarah getting kicked out, you would be okay with Sarah tweeting about it. That’s very enlightened of you.
Lol @ “bully pulpit”. This is the best thing that ever happened to The Red Hen. The owner is loving all the free publicity.
There is no scenario that puts the baker in the right here. You can't deny service to a protected class based on them being a protected class - Period. The idea is nonsensical. The restaurant owner has a better case because he wasn't denying service to a protected class - but he's still wrong.
The protected class argument applies only if we consider the act of baking a custom wedding cake to be a business of public accommodation. You think it is, I think it is not.
That sounds sensible until you factor in that none of the recent court rulings on this topic are based in either the concept of protected class or public accommodation. Presumption of religious beliefs now rules the day.
You said you were okay with Obama using his position as President to trash a cop because it wasn’t a “personal experience of his.” It was Obama’s friend and not Obama himself who was arrested. So your obvious implication is that it is an ethics violation to publicly discuss something that happens to yourself but it’s a-okay to discuss things that happen to your friends.
