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Quigley says

How about the white supremacist who drives to a black owned bakery asking for a cake with a burning cross and “death to ni**ers” in red icing? Should they be forced to make it?

How about the Nazi swastica on the cake at the Jewish bakery?

Why not demand beef in your curry at the Indian place?

What these people are demanding is a right to disrespect the religious beliefs of others. Actually it’s even worse that that. They’re demanding the right to have the government force another person to express the opposite of their religious beliefs in art form. That’s never been ok.

So where do we draw the line, or should there even be a line?

Strategist says

Quigley says

How about the white supremacist who drives to a black owned bakery asking for a cake with a burning cross and “death to ni**ers” in red icing? Should they be forced to make it?

How about the Nazi swastica on the cake at the Jewish bakery?

Why not demand beef in your curry at the Indian place?

What these people are demanding is a right to disrespect the religious beliefs of others. Actually it’s even worse that that. They’re demanding the right to have the government force another person to express the opposite of their religious beliefs in art form. That’s never been ok.

So where do we draw the line, or should there even be a line?

The line is "you have and reserve the right to refuse service to anyone". Get leftoid fascist big government ideas out of private businesses.

WineHorror says

right to disrespect the religious beliefs of others .

FREEDOM!
I don't respect brainwashing & the inability to think critically.

I'm having guests today. I'm meeting Bigfoots when their UFO lands.

mell says

Strategist says

Quigley says

How about the white supremacist who drives to a black owned bakery asking for a cake with a burning cross and “death to ni**ers” in red icing? Should they be forced to make it?

How about the Nazi swastica on the cake at the Jewish bakery?

Why not demand beef in your curry at the Indian place?

What these people are demanding is a right to disrespect the religious beliefs of others. Actually it’s even worse that that. They’re demanding the right to have the government force another person to express the opposite of their religious beliefs in art form. That’s never been ok.

So where do we draw the line, or should there even be a line?

The line is "you have and reserve the right to refuse service to anyone". Get leftoid fascist big gove...

What about cripples? Fuck right off with your wheel chair ramp also?

A cake with Crisco in the frosting at a gay wedding might send the wrong message, and set off a fisting frenzy at the reception, especially when the champagne fountain sets off a bit of revelry. Christian Crisco free wedding cakes aren't easy to find.

Is this tweet even true? I can't find any other sources confirming that the couple specifically traveled to this bakery to make a point.

errc says

mell says

Strategist says

Quigley says

How about the white supremacist who drives to a black owned bakery asking for a cake with a burning cross and “death to ni**ers” in red icing? Should they be forced to make it?

How about the Nazi swastica on the cake at the Jewish bakery?

Why not demand beef in your curry at the Indian place?

What these people are demanding is a right to disrespect the religious beliefs of others. Actually it’s even worse that that. They’re demanding the right to have the government force another person to express the opposite of their religious beliefs in art form. That’s never been ok.

So where do we draw the line, or should there even be a line?

The line is "you hav...

The alternative is you have no right to refuse service to anyone who doesn't violate the law. Then you have a lot of work ahead. A LOT. Cleaning up night clubs discriminating by race and gender and clothing, private clubs, schools, universities (affirmative action etc.). Either one is fine w/ me but you have to pick one. The current state is obviously broken.

anon_8f378 says

Is this tweet even true?

When did that ever matter?

Quigley says

How about the white supremacist who drives to a black owned bakery asking for a cake with a burning cross and “death to ni**ers” in red icing? Should they be forced to make it?

Why don't you try it and find out.

Is saying death to ni**ers the same as saying 'happily married gay people' or whatever the cake was supposed to say/depict? Or are you drawing a false equivalence?

FNWGMOBDVZXDNW says

Quigley says

How about the white supremacist who drives to a black owned bakery asking for a cake with a burning cross and “death to ni**ers” in red icing? Should they be forced to make it?

Why don't you try it and find out.

Is saying death to ni**ers the same as saying 'happily married gay people' or whatever the cake was supposed to say/depict? Or are you drawing a false equivalence?

It doesn't matter - neither you nor the government is a moral authority. It's either anybody can deny or nobody can as long as the customer doesn't violate the law. Yours is the false equivalence.

This is why I have no tolerance for the Left. They are always trying to force their beliefs onto others. They never have the balls to do it themselves either because they're weak. It's always this pathetic appeal to get government to do it for them. Totalitarians acting under the false guise of caring. It's not about caring, it's simply about control. They cream their jeans every time they can force someone else to act against their will, no matter how pointless or petty.

Always hypocritical, as well. Baker can't do what he wants, but google/facebook can censor at will because "private company! not required to give you platform!".

Mark my words, if google or facebook ever start censoring the left, you'll see an about-face there as well and they'll stop the chants of "private company" and instead demand the government start punishing.

No morals. No ethics. No integrity. No honor. The hallmarks of the modern progressive.

How is this? LOL!

anon_fe1ba says

They cream their jeans every time they can force someone else to act against their will, no matter how pointless or petty.

Like when they force someone to say Merry Christmas? Or stand for the national anthem?

Oh wait--that's conservatives.

anon_8f378 says

anon_fe1ba says

They cream their jeans every time they can force someone else to act against their will, no matter how pointless or petty.

Like when they force someone to say Merry Christmas? Or stand for the national anthem?

Oh wait--that's conservatives.

Nobody is forcing anyone to say Merry Christmas. This only becomes an issue if you prohibit someone from saying it to someone else.

Speaking of persecuted bakeries...
The three students arrested at Gibson's pleaded guilty in August to attempted theft and aggravated trespassing and said in statements required by a plea agreement that their actions were wrong and that the store wasn't racist. Even so, students continue to boycott Gibson's over perceived racial profiling, causing business to suffer. Pressed by a reporter to provide evidence or examples of profiling, they said only that when black students enter the store, they feel as though they're being watched.
"Racism can't always be proven on an Excel sheet," said Kameron Dunbar, an Oberlin junior and vice chair of the student senate.
On Nov. 7, the Gibsons sued Oberlin and Meredith Raimondo, vice president and dean of students, for slander, accusing faculty members of encouraging demonstrations against the bakery by suspending classes, distributing flyers, and supplying protesters with free food and drink.... "I have not taken a paycheck since this happened more than a year ago," Gibson said in an email. "Sometimes you have to stand up to a large institution. Powerful institutions — including Oberlin College — and their members must follow the same laws as the rest of us."

As our fearless leader pointed out, this is the type of craziness that got Trump elected. We're finally starting to see some MSM reporting on the Far Left campus hysteria produced by the unholy trinity of critical theory, postmodernism and neo-Marxist dogma.

BayArea says

Nobody is forcing anyone to say Merry Christmas. This only becomes an issue if you prohibit someone from saying it to someone else.

You obviously haven't been following along. Starbucks was boycotted because their cups didn't say Merry Christmas.

jvolstad says

The balls are on the wrong side of the dick.

errc says

What about cripples?

cripples?

Who still uses that word?

anon_3a245 says

errc says

What about cripples?

cripples?

Who still uses that word?

Why not use "cripple"?

Are we to be chased to the ever-receding horizon of acceptable euphemisms as each one in turn is scorned for signifying exactly what the previous one signified?

Again, it's the tyranny of increasingly hyper-sensitive and hyper-fragmented minorities egged on by SJWs who care only to show that what they really care about is showing that they care.

anon_3a245 says

errc says

What about cripples?

cripples?

Who still uses that word?

Oh brother.

BayArea says

anon_3a245 says

errc says

What about cripples?

cripples?

Who still uses that word?

Oh brother.

"Nice wheels numb legs"

We talking about that kind of cripple?

Strategist says

The balls are on the wrong side of the dick.

You are right!

I’d tell them to bake their own cake.

Strategist says

Quigley says

How about the white supremacist who drives to a black owned bakery asking for a cake with a burning cross and “death to ni**ers” in red icing? Should they be forced to make it?

How about the Nazi swastica on the cake at the Jewish bakery?

Why not demand beef in your curry at the Indian place?

What these people are demanding is a right to disrespect the religious beliefs of others. Actually it’s even worse that that. They’re demanding the right to have the government force another person to express the opposite of their religious beliefs in art form. That’s never been ok.

So where do we draw the line, or should there even be a line?

Personal property rights should be the line. Don't you own your own labor?

anon_8f378 says

anon_fe1ba says

They cream their jeans every time they can force someone else to act against their will, no matter how pointless or petty.

Like when they force someone to say Merry Christmas? Or stand for the national anthem?

Oh wait--that's conservatives.

Where is this forced on anyone?

Patrick says

anon_3a245 says

errc says

What about cripples?

cripples?

Who still uses that word?

Why not use "cripple"?

Are we to be chased to the ever-receding horizon of acceptable euphemisms as each one in turn is scorned for signifying exactly what the previous one signified?

Again, it's the tyranny of increasingly hyper-sensitive and hyper-fragmented minorities egged on by SJWs who care only to show that what they really care about is showing that they care.

Patrick - did you know that Realtors cannot use the term/word "walkable" in their advertising? It is insensitive to those who cannot walk. Fucking crazy.

WorkInProgress says

Do people have a right to boycott? So, I cannot boycott but you can force me to bake a cake? I think you need mental help.

Nobody is forcing him to bake a cake. He can close up shop and never bake another cake in his life.

But, if he wants to have a business baking cakes, he has to follow the law and not discriminate against protected classes.

WorkInProgress says

Patrick - did you know that Realtors cannot use the term/word "walkable" in their advertising? It is insensitive to those who cannot walk. Fucking crazy.

@WorkInProgress excellent find. Got a link?

PS sorry I had to jail one of your comments, but "I think you need mental help" is definitely a personal attack, not an attack on the point.

“I think you need mental help” is worse than “walkable” in my book. But in the USA, I’m sure there are no shortage of individuals that will disagree.

anon_8f378 says

protected classes.

Has nothing to do with discrimination. These cultural Marxists are the modern day equivalent of Mao's Red Guards who hunt down people who won't knuckle under to the party line. If they could get away with it, I don't doubt that they would kill the baker. They know better than to fool with Muslims because they'll blow them up. Protected classes indeed--sounds like something out of Soviet Russia.

anonymous says

Bake me a cake...I'm gay.

No person has to bake a cake for a gay wedding, or a black wedding, or a wedding for crippled people. Of course, such people don't get to have business licenses because with the privilege of business there comes responsibilities and not discriminating against historically oppressed groups is one of them. You are not entitled to a business license. You are not entitled to any of the limited land.

anon_670d2 says

discriminating against historically oppressed groups

But what if the definition of the group is simply that they enjoy an ancient and well-known vice, like alcoholism?

The religious point of view is that homosexuality is simply the vice of sodomy. And so far, science seems to back them up reasonably well. For example, if gayness were purely genetic, then identical twins would be identically gay or straight. But they are not.

Personally, I don't care what consenting adults want to do to each other and would make no law stopping them from that. But again, here we have the tyranny of a minority, demanding that the majority conform, to accommodate minority tastes and desires.

anon_670d2 says

No person has to bake a cake for a gay wedding, or a black wedding, or a wedding for crippled people. Of course, such people don't get to have business licenses because with the privilege of business there comes responsibilities and not discriminating against historically oppressed groups is one of them. You are not entitled to a business license. You are not entitled to any of the limited land.

So, the Muslim Bakery has to bake my "Happy Independence Day Israel 1947" cake?

Historically oppressed minority, pal.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

So, the Muslim Bakery has to bake my "Happy Independence Day Israel 1947" cake?

Historically oppressed minority, pal.

Not a protected class.

Patrick says

anon_3a245 says

errc says

What about cripples?

cripples?

Who still uses that word?

Why not use "cripple"?

The only ones still using that term are old people in their 80's+ (you know, your grandparents).

The common word today is "handicapped" or "disabled".

TwoScoopsMcGee says

So, the Muslim Bakery has to bake my "Happy Independence Day Israel 1947" cake?

Historically oppressed minority, pal.

Hey, suppose I go to a Muslim bakery and ask them to bake a cake with nasty Mohammad cartoons?
If they refuse, they get sued. If they comply, they go to hell.

Maybe the part The Constitution got wrong was Freedom of Religion. Seems like all cost, no value.

errc says

Maybe the part The Constitution got wrong was Freedom of Religion

When you consider how many wars have been and are being still fought over religious differences, you might come to the inescapable conclusion that people tend to really CARE about their faiths. Put what might be their most treasured ideas and beliefs in jeopardy, and they can behave in completely irrational and uncivilized manner, wrecking the delicate balance necessary for a functioning society. The only other way for this to work, with social cohesion, is an imposed state religion with no room for variance.

The most liberal way to ensure both freedom of belief and social order was to put religion out of the control of the state. That way people are free to believe and worship how they wish. At least, that’s the theory. In practice, religious mores can be encoded into law by democratic means, and then you’ve got de-facto state-sponsored religion by virtue of majority rule.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/06/11/the_science_of_sexual_orientation_the_latest_on_genes_chromosomes_and_environmental.html
"However, the extent of the inheritance between twins was lower than expected. These findings contribute to the notion that although homosexuality can be inherited, this does not occur according to the rules of classical genetics. Rather, it occurs through another mechanism, known as epigenetics.

Epigenetics relates to the influence of environmental factors on genes, either in the uterus or after birth. The field of epigenetics was developed after new methods were found that identify the molecular mechanisms (epi-marks) that mediate the effect of the environment on gene expression.
Epi-marks are usually erased from generation to generation. But under certain circumstances, they may be passed on to the next generation.
Normally, all females have two X-chromosomes, one of which is inactive or “switched off” in a random manner. Researchers have observed that in some mothers who have homosexual sons, there is an extreme “skewing” of inactivation of these X-chromosomes. The process is no longer random, and the same X-chromosome is inactivated in these mothers."

rando says

But what if the definition of the group is simply that they enjoy an ancient and well-known vice, like alcoholism?

If alcoholics were burnt at the stake, arrested for being born alcoholic, and prevented from marrying other alcoholics, then yes, you would have a point.

rando says

The religious point of view is that homosexuality is simply the vice of sodomy

If America were a theocracy like Saudi Arabia, you would have a point.

rando says

And so far, science seems to back them up reasonably well. For example, if gayness were purely genetic, then identical twins would be identically gay or straight. But they are not.

Who claims that there exists a gay gene? Scientific studies has shown that sexual orientation is determined biologically through hormones present in the uterus during embryonic development. This is why the more male children a woman has, the more likely the younger ones are to be gay.

Have you ever met a straight person who had the ability to choose to be gay? Could you make this conscious choice? I can't. I have zero control over my sexual orientation, straight, and I doubt you have any control over yours.