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CiIantro
12/04/17 7:50:48 PM
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Looking forward to the court putting the "religious liberty" argument to rest. The religious extremist is expected to lose.

The reason is that the Constitution guarantees a right to equal dignity, and turning people away from public accommodations or slicing up the public by granting individuals a license to opt out of the public weal denies people that dignity. No constitutional right is entirely unrestricted, but in deciding the balance between First Amendment and equal protection claims, the courts have already distinguished between the right to hold or espouse a belief considered absolute and the right to act on it with impunity. The free exercise of ones belief, the courts have said, is subject to regulation when religious acts require accommodation to a society.

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CiIantro
12/04/17 7:51:25 PM
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A ruling will be delivered next Monday.
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ChromaticAngel
12/04/17 7:54:40 PM
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CiIantro posted...
The reason is that the Constitution guarantees a right to equal dignity, and turning people away from public accommodations or slicing up the public by granting individuals a license to opt out of the public weal denies people that dignity. No constitutional right is entirely unrestricted, but in deciding the balance between First Amendment and equal protection claims, the courts have already distinguished between the right to hold or espouse a belief considered absolute and the right to act on it with impunity. The free exercise of ones belief, the courts have said, is subject to regulation when religious acts require accommodation to a society.


This times a million.

It's why people try to do shit like "My religion believes in snorting coke and highway speed limits are literally Satan!" get shut down. If they reverse this shit here, they set an extremely dangerous precedent.
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CiIantro
12/04/17 7:56:51 PM
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Mr Hangman posted...
This case is absurd. Why would you ever eat a cake that someone was forced against their will to bake for you? That can't end well.

I doubt they knew he was a bigot when they went into his store. Besides, the case isnt really about cake at all. It is about whether or not being religious gives you a free pass to do literally anything you want.
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DK9292
12/04/17 7:58:41 PM
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...context?
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ChainedRedone
12/04/17 8:01:14 PM
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Mr Hangman posted...
This case is absurd. Why would you ever eat a cake that someone was forced against their will to bake for you? That can't end well.


The absurdity is you not understanding it's not about forcing people to make cakes for you.
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Annihilated
12/04/17 8:01:55 PM
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Except it's about freedom of expression, not religious liberty. Sorry to burst your anti-Christian edgelord bubble.
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ChromaticAngel
12/04/17 8:02:18 PM
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DK9292 posted...
...context?

After the wedding cake disaster from a few years ago that ended up closing some bakery (note: they were sued because the owners of the bakery doxxed the couple to hate groups, not because of the cake) a bunch of state legislators introduced "religious freedom" or "religious liberty" laws stating you can't be compelled to do something against your religion.

Those laws have gotten challenged and it's made it to the supreme court.

Note that they're only okay with this when it's used in reaction to outrage at hateful anti-gay propaganda and not for outrage when Jehova's Witnesses refuses to stand for the pledge of allegiance or anything similar.
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DK9292
12/04/17 8:03:41 PM
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ChromaticAngel posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

After the wedding cake disaster from a few years ago

What wedding cake disaster?
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:03:59 PM
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DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:04:40 PM
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Annihilated posted...
Except it's about freedom of expression, not religious liberty. Sorry to burst your anti-Christian edgelord bubble.

See you next monday when the supreme court agrees with me.
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ChromaticAngel
12/04/17 8:04:41 PM
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DK9292 posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

After the wedding cake disaster from a few years ago

What wedding cake disaster?

https://aclu-co.org/court-rules-bakery-illegally-discriminated-against-gay-couple/
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DK9292
12/04/17 8:05:04 PM
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CiIantro posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.

Thank you.
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Annihilated
12/04/17 8:05:52 PM
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CiIantro posted...
Annihilated posted...
Except it's about freedom of expression, not religious liberty. Sorry to burst your anti-Christian edgelord bubble.

See you next monday when the supreme court agrees with me.


It's so hilariously ironic to see someone like you complaining about hate.
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:06:22 PM
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Annihilated posted...
CiIantro posted...
Annihilated posted...
Except it's about freedom of expression, not religious liberty. Sorry to burst your anti-Christian edgelord bubble.

See you next monday when the supreme court agrees with me.


It's so hilariously ironic to see someone like you complaining about hate.

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Darmik
12/04/17 8:09:24 PM
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Forcing to provide a paid service to a customer you dislike because you own and run a business that provides the requested service is SLAVERY
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Mikablu
12/04/17 8:10:25 PM
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Darmik posted...
Forcing to provide a paid service to a customer you dislike because you own and run a business that provides the requested service is SLAVERY

My sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning. I certainly hope that was sarcasm, but this IS CE, after all...
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Phantom_Nook
12/04/17 8:10:57 PM
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Mikablu posted...
Darmik posted...
Forcing to provide a paid service to a customer you dislike because you own and run a business that provides the requested service is SLAVERY

My sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning. I certainly hope that was sarcasm, but this IS CE, after all...

He's being sarcastic, but that's something people have argued.
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Darmik
12/04/17 8:11:09 PM
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Mikablu posted...
Darmik posted...
Forcing to provide a paid service to a customer you dislike because you own and run a business that provides the requested service is SLAVERY

My sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning. I certainly hope that was sarcasm, but this IS CE, after all...


It's sarcasm inspired by CE
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Mikablu
12/04/17 8:11:52 PM
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Phantom_Nook posted...
He's being sarcastic, but that's something people have argued.

Darmik posted...
It's sarcasm inspired by CE


I thought so. But like I said, this is CE, so you never know.
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sylverlolol
12/04/17 8:13:19 PM
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Is OP someone's alt? I feel like I should know this. I want to say sillyknees but I'm not sure
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Questionmarktarius
12/04/17 8:14:21 PM
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CiIantro posted...
the Constitution guarantees a right to equal dignity

[citation needed]
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:14:24 PM
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From what I have read, the bakery owner is a massive scumbag. He said he would make a wedding cake for 2 dogs before he would make one for 2 women.
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:17:52 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
CiIantro posted...
the Constitution guarantees a right to equal dignity

[citation needed]

It has been established as historical precedent by the supreme court. Whether or not you agree with it, that is how they have interpreted the constitution in past cases.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/powerful-quotes-justice-kennedy-supreme-court
https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/11/equal-dignity-speaking-its-name/
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ScazarMeltex
12/04/17 8:18:03 PM
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If this case is decided in favor of the couple it will hopefully be a blow against pharmacists who refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions due to religious objections.
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Axiom
12/04/17 8:19:11 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
If this case is decided in favor of the couple it will hopefully be a blow against pharmacists who refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions due to religious objections.

Does that still happen. Wtf
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ScazarMeltex
12/04/17 8:24:30 PM
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Axiom posted...
ScazarMeltex posted...
If this case is decided in favor of the couple it will hopefully be a blow against pharmacists who refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions due to religious objections.

Does that still happen. Wtf


There are some states where it's actually enshrined in law.

https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/refusing-provide-health-services

Has nice chart on which states allow refusals of certain things.
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Callixtus
12/04/17 8:25:56 PM
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CiIantro posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.

That's not what happened.

He only refused to bake them a wedding cake. He didn't refuse to serve them in general.
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Questionmarktarius
12/04/17 8:26:41 PM
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CiIantro posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
CiIantro posted...
the Constitution guarantees a right to equal dignity

[citation needed]

It has been established as historical precedent by the supreme court. Whether or not you agree with it, that is how they have interpreted the constitution in past cases.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/powerful-quotes-justice-kennedy-supreme-court
https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/11/equal-dignity-speaking-its-name/

That's good enough for me. Thanks.
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ChromaticAngel
12/04/17 8:27:17 PM
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Callixtus posted...
CiIantro posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.

That's not what happened.

He only refused to bake them a wedding cake. He didn't refuse to serve them in general.


That's not what happened either. He refused to bake them a wedding cake, they left, he posted their contact info and home address on Facebook to fundamentalist groups in his neighborhood that sent them threatening letters and vandalized their property and they had to leave their house for safety concerns.

What you hear on TV: "Couple sues bakery over cake."
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:28:07 PM
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Callixtus posted...
CiIantro posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.

That's not what happened.

He only refused to bake them a wedding cake. He didn't refuse to serve them in general.

lolwut?
A wedding cake bakery offers only one service: baking cakes. Refusing to bake cake=refusing service
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ChainedRedone
12/04/17 8:30:06 PM
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Callixtus posted...
CiIantro posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.

That's not what happened.

He only refused to bake them a wedding cake. He didn't refuse to serve them in general.


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Questionmarktarius
12/04/17 8:30:37 PM
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CiIantro posted...
A wedding cake bakery offers only one service: baking cakes. Refusing to bake cake=refusing service

In before wedding cake clubs become a thing somehow.
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Paragon21XX
12/04/17 8:31:42 PM
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ChromaticAngel posted...
Callixtus posted...
CiIantro posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.

That's not what happened.

He only refused to bake them a wedding cake. He didn't refuse to serve them in general.


That's not what happened either. He refused to bake them a wedding cake, they left, he posted their contact info and home address on Facebook to fundamentalist groups in his neighborhood that sent them threatening letters and vandalized their property and they had to leave their house for safety concerns.

What you hear on TV: "Couple sues bakery over cake."

Colorado baker did no such thing. Oregon baker is the scumbag that doxxed the lesbian couple.
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DifferentialEquation
12/04/17 8:32:14 PM
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I think it's stupid for business owners refuse service like this, but they should be able to do so if they want. Plus, considering that the tax bill passed and that the travel been can now taken effect, we could have a glorious trifecta of liberal tears if the court decides in favor of the bakery.
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ChromaticAngel
12/04/17 8:33:35 PM
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Paragon21XX posted...
Colorado baker did no such thing. Oregon baker is the scumbag that doxxed the lesbian couple.

Sorry, I must have merged the two incidents together in my head.
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Callixtus
12/04/17 8:34:03 PM
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CiIantro posted...
Callixtus posted...
CiIantro posted...
DK9292 posted...
...context?

Guy owns a wedding cake bakery, finds out that some of this customers are gay, and refuses to serve them. Says his rights to "religious liberty" trump their right to equal treatment (which is the law in Colorado where this happened). The couple sues for discrimination, and the case goes all the way up to the supreme court. The question at stake is whether or not all businesses get a free license to discriminate against any class of people as long as it is done in the name of religion.

That's not what happened.

He only refused to bake them a wedding cake. He didn't refuse to serve them in general.

lolwut?
A wedding cake bakery offers only one service: baking cakes. Refusing to bake cake=refusing service

He offered them plain cakes in lieu of making a wedding cake.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/566070515/a-supreme-court-clash-between-artistry-and-the-rights-of-gay-couples
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Nomadic View
12/04/17 8:36:19 PM
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CiIantro posted...
Mr Hangman posted...
This case is absurd. Why would you ever eat a cake that someone was forced against their will to bake for you? That can't end well.

I doubt they knew he was a bigot when they went into his store. Besides, the case isnt really about cake at all. It is about whether or not being religious gives you a free pass to do literally anything you want.


Supreme Court cases are rarely that broad in their rulings. I think as far as selling the cake the Court will hold that someone cannot deny the simple sale, but as far as forcing someone to create a cake that is contrary to religious beliefs, the Court will hold that is too extreme.

This case will be used in future precedence. If forcing someone to make anything you want is the precedent, then Jewish bake shops must make Nazi cakes and black bake shops must make KKK cakes.

Custom services are probably going to be the primary underlying issue. And with that I dont think the Supreme Court will force society to make whatever anyone demands a cake shop to.
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:37:02 PM
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@DifferentialEquation posted...
I think it's stupid for business owners refuse service like this, but they should be able to do so if they want. Plus, considering that the tax bill passed and that the travel been can now taken effect, we could have a glorious trifecta of liberal tears if the court decides in favor of the bakery.

The problem is that if you can use religion as a free license to discriminate, civil rights laws basically go out the window. Can a mormon teacher refuse to teach black students because their religion teaches that blacks are cursed? Can a jehovas witness doctor refuse to operate on someone who has had a blood transfusion because their religion teaches that they are unclean?
Saying they should be able to do whatever they want sounds nice on paper, but it is terrible in practice.
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Questionmarktarius
12/04/17 8:38:03 PM
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Nomadic View posted...
I think as far as selling the cake the Court will hold that someone cannot deny the simple sale, but as far as forcing someone to create a cake that is contrary to religious beliefs, the Court will hold that is too extreme.

Got any precedent handy to suggest that?
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Darmik
12/04/17 8:38:52 PM
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Callixtus posted...
He offered them plain cakes in lieu of making a wedding cake.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/566070515/a-supreme-court-clash-between-artistry-and-the-rights-of-gay-couples


were referred by their wedding planner to the Masterpiece Cakeshop, known in particular for its wedding cakes.


Not good enough.
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ChromaticAngel
12/04/17 8:38:59 PM
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Nomadic View posted...
This case will be used in future precedence. If forcing someone to make anything you want, then Jewish bake shops must make Nazi cakes and black bake shops must make KKK cakes.

See:

ChromaticAngel posted...
CiIantro posted...
The reason is that the Constitution guarantees a right to equal dignity, and turning people away from public accommodations or slicing up the public by granting individuals a license to opt out of the public weal denies people that dignity. No constitutional right is entirely unrestricted, but in deciding the balance between First Amendment and equal protection claims, the courts have already distinguished between the right to hold or espouse a belief considered absolute and the right to act on it with impunity. The free exercise of ones belief, the courts have said, is subject to regulation when religious acts require accommodation to a society.


This times a million.

It's why people try to do shit like "My religion believes in snorting coke and highway speed limits are literally Satan!" get shut down. If they reverse this shit here, they set an extremely dangerous precedent.

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Darmik
12/04/17 8:39:48 PM
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Nomadic View posted...
If forcing someone to make anything you want, then Jewish bake shops must make Nazi cakes and black bake shops must make KKK cakes.


Unless that Jewish shop offers Nazi cakes then no they do not.
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:40:27 PM
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Nomadic View posted...
Supreme Court cases are rarely that broad in their rulings. I think as far as selling the cake the Court will hold that someone cannot deny the simple sale, but as far as forcing someone to create a cake that is contrary to religious beliefs, the Court will hold that is too extreme.

This case will be used in future precedence. If forcing someone to make anything you want, then Jewish bake shops must make Nazi cakes and black bake shops must make KKK cakes.

Custom services are probably going to be the primary underlying issue. And with that I dont think the Supreme Court will force society to make whatever anyone demands them to.


Your example is non-parallel. Being a Nazi or a KKK member is a conscious affiliation. This is about discriminating against people based on biology (ie. ethnicity, skin color, sexual orientation, etc.)
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Callixtus
12/04/17 8:41:51 PM
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Darmik posted...
Callixtus posted...
He offered them plain cakes in lieu of making a wedding cake.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/566070515/a-supreme-court-clash-between-artistry-and-the-rights-of-gay-couples


were referred by their wedding planner to the Masterpiece Cakeshop, known in particular for its wedding cakes.


Not good enough.

Being known for something, is not the same as only producing something. Also, I'm not going to take it for face value that 7 words saying its known for wedding cakes makes it so, not that its relevant anyway.
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Nomadic View
12/04/17 8:43:05 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Nomadic View posted...
I think as far as selling the cake the Court will hold that someone cannot deny the simple sale, but as far as forcing someone to create a cake that is contrary to religious beliefs, the Court will hold that is too extreme.

Got any precedent handy to suggest that?


Of course not. Its why I started the sentence off with I think. This case will be the case to set that precedent.
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DifferentialEquation
12/04/17 8:44:32 PM
#48:


Darmik posted...
Nomadic View posted...
If forcing someone to make anything you want, then Jewish bake shops must make Nazi cakes and black bake shops must make KKK cakes.


Unless that Jewish shop offers Nazi cakes then no they do not.


What if they do their own screen printing on cakes and they advertise that you can bring in any picture you want they'll print it onto a cake for you? Should they be able to pick and choose who they turn away based on their personal beliefs?

Or, what if the baker sold the cake to the couple, but refused to write the couple's names on the cake and told them they would have to get that done somewhere else? Would you accept that?
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CiIantro
12/04/17 8:44:37 PM
#49:


Callixtus posted...
Darmik posted...
Callixtus posted...
He offered them plain cakes in lieu of making a wedding cake.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/566070515/a-supreme-court-clash-between-artistry-and-the-rights-of-gay-couples


were referred by their wedding planner to the Masterpiece Cakeshop, known in particular for its wedding cakes.


Not good enough.

Being known for something, is not the same as only producing something. Also, I'm not going to take it for face value that 7 words saying its known for wedding cakes makes it so, not that its relevant anyway.

Should mormon bakers be allowed to refuse to make wedding cakes for interracial couples? Brigham Young was a vehement opponent of mixed-race relationships.
You may think they should be able to, but I (and most of america) do not want to live in a society where people can use their religion as an excuse to deliberately make other people's lives hard.
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Darmik
12/04/17 8:47:25 PM
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Callixtus posted...
Being known for something, is not the same as only producing something. Also, I'm not going to take it for face value that 7 words saying its known for wedding cakes makes it so, not that its relevant anyway.


They had a referral with a wedding planner. It's an advertised service.

DifferentialEquation posted...
What if they do their own screen printing on cakes and they advertise that you can bring in any picture you want they'll print it onto a cake for you?


Add a condition that some pictures may be excluded due to adult/offensive content.

DifferentialEquation posted...
Should they be able to pick and choose who they turn away based on their personal beliefs?


No.

DifferentialEquation posted...
Or, what if the baker sold the cake to the couple, but refused to write the couple's names on the cake and told them they would have to get that done somewhere else? Would you accept that?


As long as it was a wedding cake yes.
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