An Uber Eats Driver Reportedly Refused To Deliver Plan B

Jalopnik ^ | Lawrence Hodge

[daniel1212]

There is a difference between contract work and service and you keep putting them together when they are not the same thing at all.

It may be, but I am waiting for you to asked you explain how entering into an agreement to provide a custom artistic work, for which a deposit is required, is different from contract work.

What You Need in Your Cake Contract Remember when you spent countless hours on that birthday cake, and the client canceled at the last minute? Or when you ordered special supplies and decorations (and paid extra shipping, too!) for a wedding cake, only to have that client change their mind a week before the event and want something else? Well, you can help protect yourself and home bakery from these types of unfortunate situations by including important details in your cake contracts.

We established that your home bakery does, indeed, need a cake contract. There is obvious information: name, phone number, e-mail, etc. You must also remember the essential details that do more than just give you contact info and the agreement’s signature. Even the most basic cake contract establishes the terms and conditions upfront and gives both the client and company a list of expectations. It allows the bakery and client to create a payment schedule and gives them a chance to review company liabilities. - https://whiskwarrior.com/what-you-need-in-your-cake-contract/

Not legally. Not in reality. And that is why SCOTUS said they had overstepped.

No, that is not why SCOTUS said they had overstepped, which we wish they had. Instead, as said, ": Is a business’s freedom to choose its customers more important than the government interest in stopping sexual orientation discrimination? The Supreme Court did not answer this question, but instead decided the case on narrower grounds by concluding that members of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission expressed impermissible hostility to religion." - https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/the-ongoing-challenge-to-define-free-speech/not-a-masterpiece/ (source itself shows bias)

Meaning that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission could not restrain manifesting its vindictiveness against a Christian who dared to defy their requirement to salute the flag of Sodom.

The Court’s decision erased the penalties Colorado imposed on Phillips for declining to make a cake—“comprehensive staff training,” changes to his business practices, and “quarterly compliance reports” for two years. Colorado’s adjudicatory process was so tainted with “religious hostility,” the Court said, that it deprived Phillips of a fair shake. One Colorado commissioner labeled Phillips’s view of marriage—a view still widely held by Americans—as “despicable and merely rhetorical,” no different than justifying the Holocaust or slavery. That statement went unrebutted by other commissioners. - https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/why-jack-phillips-still-cannot-make-wedding-cakes-deciding-competing-claims-under-old-laws

However,

The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who refused to make a custom cake for a same-sex couple because he believed that doing so would violate his religious beliefs. This was one of the most anticipated decisions of the term, and it was relatively narrow:..

The opinion seemed to leave open the possibility that, in a future case, a service provider’s sincere religious beliefs might have to yield to the state’s interest in protecting the rights of same-sex couples, and the majority did not rule at all on one of the central arguments in the case – whether compelling Phillips to bake a cake for a same-sex couple would violate his right to freedom of speech.

If an Asian-African transsexual polyamerous dwarf with AIDS, acne and a limp asks me to take a contract, I am not obliged to do so. .. Now if I am so stupid as to tell he or she that the limp really grosses me out he or she can try to sue me. And eventually lose.

But as said, while as with your friend, you can normally deny such service based upon the message, and Jack Phillips can and has refused to make Halloween cakes etc, but when the wannabe customer is a member of a protected class, then the charge will be that your reason for denial was due to them being so.

You can of course, deny that, but I am just telling you that Leftist so-called "Civil Rights Commissions" (non-elected as they are) will demand a reason, or charge you anyway in such a case as you describe, and off you go to courts. Protest all you want, that is the reality today, not that I agree with it.

Meaning, even if Jack Phillips simply said "no" to the request, then I am sure that the CRC would require a reason and the man would not lie.