Posted on 04/23/2013 2:52:31 AM PDT by markomalley
“...could she refuse to make a cake for an 8th grade orgy party?”
It depends on what judges, pols, or 51% of the voting public think about 8th grade orgy parties at any one time.
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She said that “because of my relationship with Jesus Christ,” she could not comply with his request to do floral arrangements for his wedding.
THAT was her mistake! What she SHOULD HAVE said was:
“Because of my relationship with the prophet Mohammed,”.........
This is all about entitlement and forcing people to “do what’s right” against their own judgement.
It started with forcing businesses to fill quotas and to not refuse services based on gender, race, religion etc with the 60’s civil rights movement. Now we have “same sex discrimination”—demanding “civil rights” and if we refuse they get outraged. When we opened this door, we can’t shut it back and say, well it was okay for these people, but it isn’t okay for these people.
We have a whole generation of people who feel special and “entitled” and if they feel the least bit slighted, they can take legal action.
How about the checkout girl wearing a hijab who asks customers to move their own bacon off the conveyor belt and bag it themselves because she won’t touch even packaged bacon?
Should she be fired because she refuses to do her job properly or will she insist that we’re being biased against her religion?
We need the freedom to refuse without penalty. Let us have the simple freedom to say “if you don’t like it, you can go somewhere else”.
As I recall, the Denny's case concerned several busloads from a black church on a long trip that pulled into a Denny's at peak time on a busy weekend. The plaintiffs decided it was a sign of bigotry that it took forever to get service, it being a meaningless technicality that 500 or so other customers in buses had gotten there ahead of them. What normal people do if they don't want to wait in line is go to the next rest stop, which is the option the manager suggested at the time.
The rule of thumb is that 99 percent of all "discrimination" incidents are planned long in advance by the plaintiffs' lawyers to create the ideal confrontation and the most sincere-sounding surprise and outrage—the Montgomery Bus Boycott being a textbook example, where M.L. King and Rosa Parks were chosen and trained for the event months in advance.
Certainly by the 1980s, it's been a safe assumption that all civil rights cases brought by "protected class" plaintiffs are fictitious.
Just make the floral arrangements the worst ever, dead flowers, horrible arrangements, and charge them a dollar for it.
The point is to have the State force you to renounce Christ.
Does the ACLU mean to imply that you may not discriminate against polygamists, pedophiles, and bestiality-ists (sp?), as those, too, are "orientations of (a type of) "sexuality"? And may soon be removed from the nut, I mean, psychiatric list of mental illnesses, if the nuts running the asylum have their way.
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