To: Girlene
A business should be able to refuse to provide a good or service based on any grounds. Yes, that's how it should be.
So this now means a black baker must make a cake for the Klan???
160 posted on
02/26/2014 7:31:23 PM PST by
broken_clock
(Do it Sarah! Cut the ties that bind.)
To: broken_clock
So this now means a black baker must make a cake for the Klan???
How about ANY baker (white, black, gay, etc) being forced to provide a cake for a Klan event. Who would want to do that?
166 posted on
02/26/2014 7:51:32 PM PST by
Girlene
(Hey, NSA!)
To: broken_clock
No, because political notions/affiliations and racial/racist views aren’t currently protected categories under civil rights laws—certainly no such laws I’m aware of. Race, color, national origin, and religion are under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the public accommodations part applying to bakeries, restaurants, stores, movie theaters, etc). Your hypothetical black baker could refuse to bake a cake for a Klansman just fine. If he refused to bake cakes for white customers generically, though, he’d be open to a federal lawsuit.
204 posted on
02/27/2014 12:57:14 AM PST by
eater-of-toast
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