“Legal logic” can actually distinguish the two situations fairly easily.
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Replying to @Grange95 @JuliusGoat
Okay, b/c my non-lawyer mind doesn’t see a difference. What’s the difference if I don’t want to make a MAGA cake vs. someone else refusing to make a rainbow cake?
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Replying to @heffmike @JuliusGoat
This excerpt from Justice Kagan’s concurrence explains the point well.pic.twitter.com/555vYBNqJH
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Replying to @Grange95 @JuliusGoat
That clarifies, thanks. I guess what I am really trying to figure out is, does running a private business mean you have to take a client/customer, else you risk a discrimination claim? Should I be able to say, take your $$$ elsewhere for whatever arbitrary reason I want?
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It’s easy to say, baker should allow gay couple to buy same cake straight couple can. But if MAGA guy wants same cake I sell everyone else, and I don’t want to deal with him or his business - where’s the line between “I can’t support this” and discrimination?
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1) Everyone else wants a Build the Wall cake but the baker will only not make one for a MAGA? 2) Liberal bakers bringing "I don't want to have to bake a conservative or a Christian (or whatever)" lawsuits aren't a thing. Trying to think of what the real-life parallel would be.
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Replying to @JuliusGoat @heffmike
Political views aren’t a protected class. So “Make me a MAGA cake!” won’t trigger a discrimination case. This is why conservatives clothe political views with religious rationales—“I won’t serve gays” won’t work, but “I won’t serve gays because I’m Christian” might work.
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Yep. You'd need to find somebody who just says "I don't serve Christians because I belong to the Church of Gay." Nobody is refusing to serve Christians that I know of. Christians, commanded by God to serve, claim discrimination for not being able to say "we don't serve you."
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Replying to @JuliusGoat @heffmike
The entire point of the Parable of the Good Samaritan is that people should not be forced to serve people they don’t like. How could Jesus say it any clearer?
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Replying to @Grange95 @JuliusGoat
Good thread before 9am everyone :-) Seriously, this is the good part of the Twitter. Now Let’s Go Caps!
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