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originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: dragonridr
So ... it's okay to discriminate against someone if you only have an online business, or a home-based business?
Oh, wait, this is in Ohio ... it's fine to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
Nevermind.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: dragonridr
So ... it's okay to discriminate against someone if you only have an online business, or a home-based business?
Oh, wait, this is in Ohio ... it's fine to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
Nevermind.
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: dragonridr
So ... it's okay to discriminate against someone if you only have an online business, or a home-based business?
Oh, wait, this is in Ohio ... it's fine to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
Nevermind.
It’s okay for someone to force another person to break their religious code? To do something that they see as amoral?
Would it be okay if they were to refuse to bake a cake for a known pedofile and his underage bride?
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: dragonridr
So ... it's okay to discriminate against someone if you only have an online business, or a home-based business?
Oh, wait, this is in Ohio ... it's fine to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
Nevermind.
It’s okay for someone to force another person to break their religious code? To do something that they see as amoral?
Would it be okay if they were to refuse to bake a cake for a known pedofile and his underage bride?
So you are for religious freedom, I take it then you have no issue with Muslim women wearing burkas or Muslim men having multiple wives....?
originally posted by: Oldtimer2
a reply to: Gryphon66
That should be a personal buisness decision,when you own your own buisness you should be able to conduct buisness as long as it doesn't break any laws,thats why people own their own buisness,these puke millenium liberals have no work ethic,they can't understand,worthless bunch,what happened to free speech
They have every right to refuse service to LBGTs. I would do the same myself if I was in their position.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
Interesting situation.
Of course, the woman baking the cake has the right to refuse service for any reason. She does not need a reason to say "no." On the other hand, by saying no in this instance, over this reasoning, she has likely ostracized many of her customers. I know if I lived there and wanted a birthday cake, I wouldn't go to her after hearing this.
Similar situations have worked themselves over time since the beginnings of commerce. A good businessperson does not place personal feelings above the good of their business. I understood the baker in Colorado, because he could not help but see that his creation was in full support of a religious objection he had, but the words "happy birthday" carry no such message. Indeed, were this case to reach the Supreme Court, the ruling in the Colorado case would not apply. The ruling stated that an artist could not be forced to create a work against their personal religious beliefs, which this cake would not have been (unless there is a religion that bans birthdays).
Shame on you, lady, for getting up in a tizzy over how this woman lives her life. But... shame on anyone who tries to make this a "thing"... it shows neither side of the political arguments in a good light.
TheRedneck