Posted on 08/13/2015 7:11:31 PM PDT by marshmallow
Edited on 08/13/2015 7:22:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Not true, exactly. For legal purposes, corporations fall into a class called "juridic persons". They have some rights that natural persons have. For example, they have the rights to free speech (look up the Citizens United SCOTUS decision).
How about this: "I'm not baking a cake for you because I don't want to."
I believe that you're reading the title wrong. It's worse than that. The judge didn't say that he couldn't refuse to bake the cake because he failed to properly quote chapter and verse... the judge is saying he is NOT ALLOWED to quote chapter and verse in his defense at this trial.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
“Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States . . . shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”
Every judge, gay-thug plaintiff, and other petty tyrant involved in this war against religion should be hunted down and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as soon as the rule of law is restored. There is no statute of limitations for federal crimes that carry the death penalty. Whether it takes until January 20, 2017, or fifty years, these thugs need to be hunted down and given life without parole. The First Amendment is closer to an absolute than anything else in law other than the Second Amendment. Those who trample freedom of religion are as bad as Nazis and should be treated the same as those criminals.
CO leftward slide beginning in 1972 has turned into an avalanche.
So many in CO are on the hard left: many think it’s Californians moving there who changed everything, but as the CA people moved out, CO moved further left and so did CA. It is complicated.
Another Freeper suggested a sign that says, to paraphrase, “All proceeds from gay wedding cakes are donated to Cruz”.
Then hang the judge.
Apparently, only homosexuals have rights in America.
I have to disagree. A juridical person is a legal entity which achieves legal personhood through incorporation. The important point is that it is created by the state, as opposed to being created by God. As our constitution acknowledges rights as above the reach of the state, rights therefore cannot be granted BY the state. Thus corporate "rights" are a term of art indicating the only thing the state CAN grant - limited privileges. That's why the laws are so whack, because the state can changed those privileges at any time.
Juridical persons were actually first created by the Catholic Church through Canon Law, to represent an aggregate of human beings being treated as a single person. This seems to be the conceptual framework used to address the Church itself. But translated into statutory law in the US, it directly conflicts with the founding relationship between the state and the people. Therefore it is assigned corporate status.
The use of the word "rights" for corporations is a common, but severely misleading abuse of the mechanism of terms of art. The courts get away with it by pretending they are writing only for attorneys "well versed in the art," (since these are virtually all appellate rulings, as appellate hearings can only be filed and argued by attorneys). This single misuse of this particular word has served to hide the truth about this issue for a very long time - to tremendous detriment. It is literally THE answer to the common American cry of "what happened to my rights?!"
Psalm 10
There are circumstances where there is going to be discrimination against someone regardless of which side of the issue you are on. Given a choice between discrimination against homosexuals and discrimination against Christians the court came down for discrimination against Christians. Not surprising.
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